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 thesis, “In-Network Congestion Management for Security and Performance”, 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.
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