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Albert Gran Alcoz
I finished my PhD in June 2024.
My research interests are Network Programmability and Security. Part of my work is funded by armasuisse and the Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center (ZISC).
From July 2023 to October 2023, I visited the Berkeley NetSys Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Prof. Dr. Scott Shenker.
From February 2016 to July 2016, I was a visiting researcher at the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz, working on Network Virtualization for 5G Software-Defined Cellular Systems.
Prior to joining ETH Zürich, I received a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering (2018) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and Telecommunication Technologies Engineering (2016), both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain.
I have worked in industry for organizations like Cloudflare (2023), IBM (2017), and CERN (2015).
Teaching
- Advanced Topics in Communication Networks: 2018–2023 (TA)
- Seminar in Communication Networks:
2019–2021 (TA)
Talks
Aggregate-Based Congestion Control for Pulse-Wave DDoS Defense
SP-PIFO: Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors using Strict-Priority Queues
Publications
Supervised Theses
Student: Félicité Lordon
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Tibor Schneider, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Nicole Wenzinger
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Eric Marty
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Coralie Busse-Grawitz, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Sharat Chandra Madanapalli
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Alexander Dietmüller, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Noa Melchior
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Roland Meier, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Robin Berner
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Alexander Dietmüller, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Jan Müller
Supervisors: Albert Gran Alcoz, Roland Meier, and Laurent Vanbever