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Theophilus Benson

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Office:	RMCIC 4106
Mailing Address:	Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
Position:	Professor, ECE
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Democratizing Mobile Web Performance: In this work, we revisit the fundamental assumptions behind how infrastructure is designed and built. In particular, our focus lies on understanding how non-technical factors, e.g., economics, policy, and other societal factors impact deployment performance. We plan to: (1) create measurements to identify and discover these non-technical factors, and (2) develop models that allow us to understand how changing or altering these non-technical factors impacts infrastructure performance.

Systems Abstractions for Programmable Infrastructures (eBPF): Programmable infrastructures, e.g., eBPF, introduce unparalleled flexibility into modern infrastructures. However, we lack the frameworks and abstractions to simply the process of developing against these paradigms or managing the resulting programs. As part of designing these abstractions, we work with a consortium of researchers and industry to ensure that our approaches are both practical and simultaneously innovative.