T. S. Eugene Ng

T. S. Eugene Ng is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rice University. He holds appointments in both departments and chairs the CS Grad Committee. His research focuses on network architectures, optical networking, and machine learning applications in distributed systems.

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Engineering (with distinction and magna cum laude), University of Washington
• M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Developing robust network infrastructure, optical circuit-switched systems, congestion control, and efficient machine learning frameworks. Current projects include BOLD (Big data and Optical Lightpaths Driven) networking, telemetry systems like Söze, and gradient compression techniques for distributed training.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (2023)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2009)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005)
• IBM Faculty Award (2009)
• Kavli Fellow

Professional Activities: Chair of the 2018 ACM SIGCOMM Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and organizer of multiple networking conferences/workshops. Active in program committees for SIGCOMM, NSDI, and CoNEXT.

Teaching: Courses include Introduction to Computer Networks, Advanced Computer Networks, and seminars in distributed computing and network systems.