Edgar Costa Molero

I am a networking researcher and engineer specialized in failure detection, traffic engineering, and Software Defined Networking.

I defended my dissertation titled Improving Network Failure Detection and Recovery with Programmable Data Planes on the 6th of May 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever, co-examined by Dr. Stefano Vissicchio and Prof. Dr. Minlan Yu.

During my thesis, I worked on utilizing the advent of programmable data planes to hardware-accelerate and improve current failure detection, localization, and recovery systems. I also worked on accelerating allreduce operations, a widely-used data center communication primitive typically used to train machine learning models. In the past, I worked on traffic engineering for data center networks.

During my time at the Network Security Group (NSG), I created and maintained p4-utils and p4-learning, two of the leading github repositories to learn how to program and prototype programmable data plane networks in software.

Before starting my PhD, I earned a bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication Technology from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and then a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich.

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