Sylvia Ratnasamy | |
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| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley, University of Pune |
| Known for | Distributed hash tables, software routing |
| Awards | Grace Murray Hopper Award Sloan Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | UC Berkeley, Intel Labs, International Computer Science Institute, Nefeli Networks |
| Thesis | A Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2002) |
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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.