Jennifer Rexford
Princeton University
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Primary Section: 34, Computer and Information Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2020)
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Biosketch
Jennifer Rexford is a computer scientist known for her work on computer networks like the Internet. Her research focuses on making the underlying network infrastructure more reliable, secure, and performant. Rexford was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and also lived in Virginia, Korea, and Japan as a child. She graduated from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, with a degree in electrical engineering in 1991, and received her MSE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Before joining Princeton in 2005, Rexford worked for eight years at AT&T Labs--Research. She is the co-editor of the book "She's an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect" published by Princeton University in 1993, and co-author of the book "Web Protocols and Practice" published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. She has served as the chair of ACM SIGCOMM, and on the Computing Community Consortium, the Computing Research Association, the advisory committee of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, and the boards of the Open Networking Foundation and the P4 Consortium. Rexford is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Research Interests
Jennifer Rexford's research focuses on computer networking, with the broader goal of making networks like the Internet worthy of the trust society increasingly places in them. Her group designs new protocols and mechanisms that improve network performance, security, and reliability, while making these networks easier to manage. Rexford's work spans the design, measurement, and modeling of high-speed network devices, the distributed protocols these devices run to form a network, and the ways multiple independently administered networks cooperate (and compete) in creating a global communications infrastructure. She is active in industry consortia designing open interfaces for the programming of network devices, and has worked with the Federal Communications Commission on policy topics ranging from net neutrality to the security of the Internet routing infrastructure.
