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Biography

Pablo Rodriguez is the Internet Scientific Director at Telefonica. He also leads the Internet research group at Telefonica Research (Telefonica I+D) in Barcelona.

Prior to joining Telefonica in 2007, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research, at the Systems and Networking group. While at Microsoft, he developed the Avalanche P2P system and worked in content distribution, wireless systems, network coding, and large-scale complex networks. He was also involved in measurement studies of very popular services, such as the Windows Update system or FolderShare.

During his research career he also worked at Bell-Labs, NJ where he developed systems to improve the performance of Wireless applications. Prior to Bell-Labs, he worked as a software architect for various startups in the Silicon Valley including Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo!) and Tahoe Networks now part of Nokia).

He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne) while at Institut Eurécom, (Sophia Antipolis, France). During his Ph.D. he also worked at AT&T Labs (Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ). Pablo obtained postgraduate studies at EPFL and King's College, London respectively, and an a B.S./M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. He was born in Asturias, a beautiful region in the north of Spain (more info). For more personal info, you can read a recent interview at the LatinConnect magazine.

What's new:

• PC Co-Chair of the ACM/Sigcomm 2008 Workshop on Online Social Networks
• General Chair for ACM/Sigcomm 2009, which will take place in Barcelona.
• The traces for our paper "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System", in ACM/IMC'07 are now online: http://an.kaist.ac.kr/traces/IMC2007.html

Research Interests:

• Large scale Networks and Distributed Systems
• Peer-to-Peer and Content Distribution
• Information and Coding Theory Applications
• Wireless Networks and Applications

Recent Publications:

• "Watching Television Over Nationwide IP Multicast", Meeyoung Cha, Pablo Rodriguez, Sue Moon, Jon Crowcroft. Under submission.
• "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System", Meeyoung Cha, Haewoon Kwak, Pablo Rodriguez, Yon-Yeol Ahn, Sue Moon. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC'07 San Diego, Oct 2007 (traces)
• "Is High-Quality VoD Feasible using P2P Swarming?", S. Guha, S. Annapureddy, C. Gkantsidis, D. Gunawardena, and P. Rodriguez, World Wide Web WWW'07 Conference, Canada, May 2007.
• "An Optimization Framework for Practical Multipath Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks", B. Radunovic, C. Gkantsidis, P. Key, P. Rodriguez, W. Hu, MSR-TR-2007-81, June 2007.
• "Multipath Code Casting for Wireless Mesh Networks ", B. Radunovic, C. Gkantsidis, P. Key, S. Gheorgiu, W. Hu, P. Rodriguez, ACM SIGCOMM Co-NEXT, Dec 2007. (also MSR-TR-2007-68, March 2007).

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Recent Professional Activities:

• PC Co-Chair of the ACM/Sigcomm 2008 Workshop on Online Social Networks
• General Chair for ACM/Sigcomm 2009, which will take place in Barcelona. 
• Editor SIGCOMM/CCR
• Editor IEEE/JSAC special issue on P2P streaming
• PC Member: IMC 2008

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