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Robert Ricci

Research Professor
Flux Research Group
School of Computing, University of Utah

MEB Room 3490B ricci@cs.utah.edu +1 801.581.8354 CV
50 South Central Campus Drive, Room 3190, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
github.com/ricci Google Scholar Flux @ricci@discuss.systems

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About Me

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I’m a Research Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, and one of the directors of the Flux Research Group. I've also taught classes as an Adjunct Professor at Westminster College. I earned a PhD from the University of Utah in 2010 (advised by Jay Lepreau and Sneha Kasera), and an Honors BS from the same institution in 2001. I'm a long-time Utahn, having lived here since 1987, and I've been at the University of Utah in various capacities since 1997. You can find a lot more in my CV.


Research Interests

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I work in infrastructure: the systems underneath the software and services that we use everyday. I've published in operating systems, networking, distributed systems, cloud computing, and more. I'm also interested in the security of those systems, because concerns of security and privacy need to be built into infrastructure from the ground up. Infrastructure is a very emprical field, requiring lots of implementation and experimentation, so I'm also interested in experiment design and analysis, and in building testbeds for research; I have worked on Emulab and its sucessors, including CloudLab, parts of GENI, and Powder, since 2000. One of the fundamental parts of the research process is building on and comparing to existing systems, so I also work in research reproducibility.


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Great Salt Lake Pink
University of Utah Campus
Palau de les Arts
Dolphin at Oceanografic de Valencia
Oranges in Valencia
Polaria Tromso
Owl in Grapevines
Multnomah Falls

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