Brighten GodfreyView profile
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Professor Brighten Godfrey is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliate of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (2009) and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University (2002). His research spans networked systems with a focus on low-latency networking , software-defined networks , microservices , and machine learning for networks . Ph.D. (2009) and B.S. (2002) in Computer Science Professor at UIUC since 2021 Technical Director at VMware (acquired Veriflow in 2019) His recent publications address microservice tracing , cluster verification , and mobile acceleration , with high-impact applications in XR systems and low-latency networks . Awards include the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award , Sloan Research Fellowship , and multiple best paper and dataset awards . He has chaired program committees for SIGCOMM and HotNets . Teaching honors include Excellent Teacher and Outstanding Advising Awards . His research group has produced alumni now at institutions like Meta, Google, and ETH Zurich. Current projects include Service Layer Traffic Engineering (SLATE) and Learning-Based Congestion Control (Aurora, PCC).










