UTKARSH GOEL
utkarsh.goel@cs.montana.edu
+1 (406) 600-5170
www.cs.montana.edu/~utkarsh.goel
357 EPS Building, Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATIONS
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2017
Montana State University
USA
Advisor: Professor Mike P. Wittie
GPA: 3.7 on a scale of 4.0
expected graduation date: Spring
Bozeman,
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering
Spring 2012
Aligarh Muslim University
dia
GPA: 8.3 on a scale of 10.0
MT,
Aligarh, In-
RESEARCH INTERESTS
CDN Mapping, Web Performance, IPv6, HTTP/2, Cellular Middleboxes, Internet Measurements, Predictive Caching
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Cellular Infrastructure Discovery
 Developed several techniques to detect the presence of TCP terminating proxies in cellular networks, with the goal of
optimizing TCP stack and monitor Web performance with cellular Middleboxes.
IPv6 Performance in Cellular Networks
 Measured IPv6 performance benefits in cellular networks and presented the need for dual-stacking the mobile content.
 Discovered IPv6 routing problem in a cellular network outside of the USA.
 Developed a technique to eliminate round trips in IPv6-only cellular networks during DNS lookups.
Reducing Webpage Load Time
 DNS based CDN server selection does not reduce the network latency as expected.
 Developed an open source tool that enables clients to participate in the server selection functionality and reduces the
webpage load time by 37% on average case.
Closest CDN Server Selection Tool using Traceroutes
 Existing closest server selection tools suffer from incomplete coverage of the IP space and therefore could make predictions based on stale network measurements.
 Developed a latency estimation tool for arbitrary hosts on the Internet using host-to-CDN latency measurements, to
offer superior coverage and latency estimation accuracy over existing tools.
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North West Passage (NWP) Operations and Travel Information Integration Sharing (OTIIS) System
 Collaborated in developing a travel information system across 8 US states, to assist in planning of long-distance trips.
 Developed a Web server in Node.Js and employed various methods to improve the system performance.
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Mobile Network Measurement Testbed
 Developed MITATE to support mobile application prototyping in cellular networks.
 MITATE is currently being under deployment to Google’s Measurement Lab (MLAB).
PUBLICATIONS
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Detecting Cellular Middleboxes using Passive Measurement Techniques, in ACM/SIGCOMM PAM 2016.
Survey of End-to-End Mobile Network Measurement Testbeds, Tools, and Services, in IEEE COMSOC CST 2015.
Faster Web through Client-assisted CDN Server Selection, in IEEE ICCCN 2015.
PCP: Internet Latency Estimation Using CDN Replicas, in IEEE ICCCN 2015.
Understanding Factors Influencing the Citation Count of Networking Conference Papers, in ISCA SEDE 2015.
MITATE: Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Traffic Experimentation, in ACM MOBIQUITOUS 2013.
USENIX; login: issue: August 2013, Volume 38, Number 4, in Technical summary, USENIX NSDI 2013.
MITATE: Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Traffic Experimentation, in USENIX NSDI 2013 (Poster paper).
Voice - Video Communication on Mobile Phones and PCs’ using Asterisk EPBX, in IEEE CSNT 2012.
Wilcom: Application for interacting via Voice, Video, Text chat at Zero Cost in a Wi-Fi Cloud, in IJET 2012.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Web Performance Research Engineer (Intern), Akamai Technologies Inc., San Francisco, CA
2015
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May - August
Conducted a measurement study to detect TCP terminating proxies in cellular networks using HTTP and TCP logs.
Conducted a detailed investigation of IPv6 performance in cellular networks in the US.
Graduate Research Assistant, Networks Lab, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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Identified and pursued novel research problems in areas of cellular networks, Web performance, CDN server selection.
Some of these projects are under mentorship & collaboration with several industry and other academic institutions.
Mentored several graduate and undergraduate students in their research projects.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
2013
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August 2012 to December
Assisted undergraduate students with their assignments, lectured classes occasionally, and provided recommendations to faculty for refining the course material and structure to promote student participation in the class.
Summer Intern, LetsLiveWire Inc., Houston, TX
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August 2012
June 2013 to August 2013
Worked with a startup to develop a Tele-Presence Web application for Tax and Health related services.
Developed and launched incremental product functionality through scheduled deployments.
Applied agile software development methodologies to increase both personal and team efficiency.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Outstanding Ph.D. Researcher Award by Montana State University.
Runner-up for the Three Minute Thesis Competition at Montana State University
Student Travel Grant from IEEE ICCCN 2015
Student Travel Grant from NSF PhantomNet Workshop 2015
Student Travel Grant from ACM CoNEXT 2014
Student Travel Grant from ACM/SIGCOMM IMC 2014
Student Travel Grant from ACM/SIGCOMM IMC 2013
Student Travel Grant from USENIX NSDI 2013.
Sir Syed Excellence in Science Award by Aligarh Alumni Association of New England for an excellent academic
performance throughout undergraduate education and on potential for future research.
Nurul Hasan Merit Research Scholarship by Aligarh Muslim University for excellent academic performance and
for encouraging undergraduate research.