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 third 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 increasingly interested in computer and network security, specifically electronic criminal economies and botnets.
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
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.