Colin Dixon
ckd (at sign) cs.washington.eduPhD Student
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle
Current Work
Publications
Previous Work
Interests
I'm a fourth year student in the graduate program here at UW, and my interests are primarily in networks and distributed systems. My advisors are Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
Current Work
I am currently working on next-generation Internet protocol design. This broad area includes work on future Internets as well as work on manageability and security.
I am also interesting in how to evolve future Internets and (more importantly) Internet Applications. Along these lines I am interested in how to combine virtualization techniques with automatic configuration and management to create a richer space for new applications than exists today.
I received my M.S. in computer science from the University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering in June 2007 for work with Phalanx: a scalable, deployable system for denial of service mitigation.
Publications
An End to the Middle
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tom Anderson
in HotOS 2009 (slides)
talk at UW (hi res) (slides as video) (classroom presenter)
Optimizing links in the developing world
Yaw Anokwa, Colin Dixon, Gaetano Boriello, Tapan Parikh
in WINS-DR at MOBICOMM 2008
Withstanding Multimillion-node Botnets
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson
in USENIX ;login: August 2008
Phalanx: Withstanding Multimillion-node Botnets
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson
in NSDI 2008 (slides)
UW CSE 2007 Affiliates Day talk and poster
Reciprocity: Tit-for-Tat Distributed Resource Allocation
Colin Dixon,
Tanya Bragin,
Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Tom Anderson
Poster in SIGCOMM 2006
iPlane: An Information Plane for Distributed Services
Harsha V. Madhyastha,
Tomas Isdal,
Michael Piatek, Colin Dixon,
Tom Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Arun Venkataramani
in OSDI 2006
LiveSwarms: Adapting BitTorrent for end host multicast
Michael Piatek, Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tom Anderson
Technical report: UW-CSE-06-11-01
Previous Work
I received my B.S. in computer science and B.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2005. While I was there I worked on anonymous communication with Bobby Bhattacharjee as a part of the Gemstone Program. I also worked on approximating vertex cover with Samir Khuller as part of the Computer Science Honors Program.
Interests
When I'm not sitting in front of a computer hacking code for an upcoming paper deadline or project there are a bunch of things I like to get out and do.
I'm an avid ultralight backpacker which I picked up largely through my Dad (that's me on the front page) who co-founded the backpacking magazine Backpacking Light. You can find some recent trips I took with him on his website. Also, you can find some (poorly organized and labeled) pictures of recent hikes around Seattle at my personal site.
I've also been a reasonably active cyclist in the past, but so far the weather and hills in Seattle have somewhat discouraged me from finding the good rides.