Soudeh Ghorbani

Soudeh Ghorbani is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (on leave since 2023) and a full-time Scientist at Meta. She directs the Hopkins Networking Lab and founded the Introduction to Computing Research (ICR) program. Her research focuses on foundational networked systems, including cloud infrastructure, data center optimization, and network congestion control, with grants from NSF, Google, Meta, Intel, and VMware.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2016)
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto (2011)
• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2009)

Research Interests: Systems and networking, cloud computing infrastructures, distributed AI training, network bottlenecks, formal methods, and control theory. Her work targets making the Internet faster and more reliable through provable system designs.

Publication Trends: Recent articles (2020-2025) emphasize data center networks, congestion control, packet deflection, and network verification. Key themes include microburst mitigation, traffic pattern analysis, and scalable network algorithms.

Awards:

• Facebook Faculty Research Award (for microburst detection)
• Intel Fast Forward Award

Advising & Grants: Advises 8 PhD/MS students. Research supported by NSF, Google, Meta, Intel, and VMware. Directs the Foundational Networked Systems Lab, focusing on cloud/datacenter innovations.

Labs & Teams: Leads the Hopkins Networking Lab. Founded ICR to introduce undergraduates to computing research. Lab members include PhD students Kevin Lu, Sana Mahmood, Sepehr Abdous, and Erfan Sharafzadeh.