Fangfan is a PhD student studying systems and networks at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor David Choffnes. Before attending Northeastern, Fangfan earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Electronic of Science and Technology in China and a Master of Science degree at Duke University.
I started my PhD in 2015. Boston is a great city with many talented researchers and excellent restaurants, and these are the reasons that I am greatly enjoying my study at Northeastern so far.
At a high level, I want to understand the Internet’s infrastructure and the things happening in networks. The specific topics that interest me include traffic differentiation, network middle-box, network measurement, and algorithmic pricing.
Nowadays, your identity is stored in your laptops, your Facebook accounts, and your phone’s network traffic. I want to understand what the companies with access to this personal data are doing with this information.
I like the process of making assumptions about how companies classify different users and types of traffic, then confirm my hypotheses through real world experiments. It might be surprising to Internet users that network neutrality, the principle of Internet service providers, is frequently broken by the Internet service providers (ISPs) themselves.
I would love to contribute my knowledge and skills to improve network conditions and the education of Internet users.
I grew up in Chongqing, a city famous for fantastic food and breathtaking skylines, and among all the cities that I have visited so far, it is still the most attractive one to me.
Fangfan is a PhD student studying systems and networks at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor David Choffnes. Before attending Northeastern, Fangfan earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Electronic of Science and Technology in China and a Master of Science degree at Duke University.
I started my PhD in 2015. Boston is a great city with many talented researchers and excellent restaurants, and these are the reasons that I am greatly enjoying my study at Northeastern so far.
At a high level, I want to understand the Internet’s infrastructure and the things happening in networks. The specific topics that interest me include traffic differentiation, network middle-box, network measurement, and algorithmic pricing.
Nowadays, your identity is stored in your laptops, your Facebook accounts, and your phone’s network traffic. I want to understand what the companies with access to this personal data are doing with this information.
I like the process of making assumptions about how companies classify different users and types of traffic, then confirm my hypotheses through real world experiments. It might be surprising to Internet users that network neutrality, the principle of Internet service providers, is frequently broken by the Internet service providers (ISPs) themselves.
I would love to contribute my knowledge and skills to improve network conditions and the education of Internet users.
I grew up in Chongqing, a city famous for fantastic food and breathtaking skylines, and among all the cities that I have visited so far, it is still the most attractive one to me.
