Sachin Katti

Assistant Professor, EE & CS, Stanford University
CEO, Kumu Networks
Office: 342 Gates Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305
Affiliations: Open Networking Research Center
Phone: +1 650 724 8960
email: skatti at stanford dot edu

Recent News

Awarded the Sloan Fellowship.
Full duplex and pFabric accepted to ACM Sigcomm 2013, Copysets to Usenix ATC 2013, and Pinpoint to USENIX NSDI 2013.
Picasso awarded the Best Student Paper at ACM Sigcomm 2012.

Research Projects

OpenRadio: Rearchitecting wireless infrastructure to be virtualizable and shareable.
                  Papers: Sigcomm 12, HotSDN 12, HotSDN 13

Full Duplex: Redesigning wireless networks with radios that simultaneously transmit and receive.
                  Papers: Mobicom 10, Mobicom 11, Sigcomm 13

Rateless Networking: Feedback-less wireless network design for data and video.
                  Papers: Hotnets 10, Sigcomm 11, Mobicom 11, Mobicom 12

Datacenter Transport & Storage: minimalistic, near-optimal data center transport and fabric.
                  Papers: Hotnets 12, Sigcomm 13, Usenix ATC 13

Wireless Coexistence: cognitive protocols for co-existence in a crowded world.
                  Papers: Sigcomm 11, HotNets 11, Sigcomm 12

Radio Localization: sub-meter localization of commodity radios in noisy multipath environments.
                  Papers: NSDI 13

Network Coding: rearchitecting wireless mesh networks with routers that mix packets.
                  Papers: Sigcomm 06, Sigcomm 07, Sigcomm 07, Sigcomm 08

Students

  • Aditya Gudipati: rateless networking (Stanford Graduate Fellow)
  • Manu Bansal: wireless baseband virtualization
  • Dinesh Bharadia: full duplex wireless (Stanford Graduate Fellow)
  • Asaf Cidon: decoupled lightweight wireless control (Stanford Graduate Fellow)
  • Rakesh Mishra: interference management (Stanford Graduate Fellow)
  • Alumni

  • Steven Hong (PhD 2012, co-founder of Kumu Networks)
  • Tomer London (PhD student, on leave, co-founder of ZenPayroll)
  • Jeffrey Mehlman (PhD student, on leave, co-founder of Kumu Networks)
  • Awards

  • 2013: Sloan Fellowship
  • 2012: ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Best Student Paper
  • 2012: NSF Career Award
  • 2011: Okawa Foundation Fellowship
  • 2011: Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networking
  • 2010: Terman, Hoover and Packard Junior Faculty Fellowships, Stanford University
  • 2010: Best Demonstration Award, ACM MOBICOM 2010
  • 2009: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
  • 2009: George Sprowls Award for Best Dissertation in CS, MIT
  • 2009: IEEE William Bennett Prize
  • 2007: MIT Deshpande Center Innovation Grant
  • 1999: National Talent Search Scholar, India