Sylvia Ratnasamy

Sylvia Ratnasamy
NationalityBelgian
Alma materUC Berkeley, University of Pune
Known forDistributed hash tables, software routing
AwardsGrace Murray Hopper Award Sloan Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUC Berkeley, Intel Labs, International Computer Science Institute, Nefeli Networks
ThesisA Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2002)
Doctoral advisor

Sylvia Ratnasamy (born c. 1976) is a Belgian–Indian computer scientist. She is best known as one of the inventors of the distributed hash table (DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, and she received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for this work.[1] She is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

  1. ^ "ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award". ACM. 2014. Retrieved 2019-11-26.