Brad Karp

Brad Karp is a Professor of Computer Systems and Networks at University College London (UCL), holding this position since 2005. His career spans multiple institutions and roles, including a Senior Lecturer (2005-2014) and Reader (2007-2014) at UCL, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Senior Staff Researcher at Intel Research Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University (2000), preceded by an M.Sc. (1995) and B.Sc. (1992) in the same field from Harvard and Yale respectively.

Research Interests:

• Systems security (operating systems, web browsers, application security)
• Wireless networking (multi-antenna capacity, interference management)
• Network routing (robustness, low-latency protocols)
• Distributed systems (DHTs, sensor networks)

Scientific Contributions focus on optimizing network performance, enhancing security architectures, and developing practical routing algorithms. His work on gradient compression (2024) and low-latency routing topologies (2018) demonstrates continued relevance in network design. Earlier publications like OpenDHT (2005) and Polygraph (2005) established foundational contributions in distributed systems and security.

Awards & Recognition:

• Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award (2005-2010)
• Best Paper Award (Usenix 2014)

Professional Activities include program committee roles for ACM SIGCOMM (2009, 2011-2017), HotNets (2008-2017), and NSF review panels. He has examined PhD theses at the University of Cambridge (2010) and contributed to the HotNets Steering Committee (2009-2014).