Albert Gran Alcoz

I am a Networking Researcher specializing in High-Performance Networking, Network Security, Cloud, and AI.

I obtained my PhD in June 2024 under supervision of Prof. Laurent Vanbever, co-examined by Prof. Nick McKeown (Stanford University) and Prof. Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT).

My dissertation, “In-Network Congestion Management for Security and Performance”, was awarded the 2024 ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. It includes multiple first-author papers published at SIGCOMM, NSDI, and HotNets. Part of the work was funded by armasuisse and the Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center (ZISC).

In 2023, I had the opportunity to visit the Berkeley NetSys Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, under supervision of Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Prof. Scott Shenker. Earlier, in 2016, I visited the BWNLab at GeorgiaTech, under the guidance of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz.

I have industry experience in organizations like Cloudflare (2023), IBM (2017), and CERN (2015).

I also hold a Master’s Degree (2018) and a Bachelor’s Degree (2016) in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain.

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