Justine Sherry

Justine Sherry is the A. Nico Habermann Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Her research focuses on networked systems across software and hardware layers, particularly middleboxes, congestion control, FPGA-based acceleration, and Internet fairness.

• Affiliations: Computer Science Department (CSD), CyLab, SNAP Lab.
• Academic Rank: Associate Professor

Her recent work explores radical shifts in datacenter architectures via SmartNICs, hardware-software co-design for network functions, and database proxy innovation using eBPF. She leads research on Internet fairness, denial-of-service mitigation, and high-speed intrusion detection through systems like Pigasus.

Key scientific contributions span 15 recent publications at venues like SIGCOMM, OSDI, and VLDB, addressing topics such as:

• Mathematical fairness in congestion control
• KERNEL bypass strategies in FPGA SmartNICs
• BBR algorithmic unfairness
• Wireless latency optimization (Zhuge)
• Heterogeneous hardware performance analysis
• Open-source security infrastructure

Major awards include:

• Sloan Research Fellowship
• VMWare Systems Award
• NSF grants
• Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
• Early Career Diamond from UW Engineering

She mentors students in systems research, including Ranysha Ware, Nirav Atre, and Hugo Sadok, while collaborating with institutions like Google, Facebook, and DARPA.