Bruce MacDowell Maggs

Pelham Wilder Professor of Computer Science, Duke University
Director of Engineering, Emerald Innovations
Office: D324 Levine Science Research Center   bCTRL-Cmmis@disabledcsfor·duke·emailedu
Mailing Address: Department of Computer Science, Duke University P. O. Box 90129 Durham, NC 27708-0129
Research

My research focuses on distributed systems, including content delivery networks, computer networks, and computer and network security.

Advisees
Xiao (Shane) Zhang
PhD Candidate
Waqar Aqeel
PhD Candidate
Ilker Nadi Bozkurt
PhD, 2018
Bala Chandrasekaran
PhD, 2016
Yin Lin
PhD, 2014
Maverick Woo
PhD, 2009 (with co-advisor Guy Blelloch)
Charlie Garrod
PhD, 2008 (with co-advisor Chris Olston)
Amit Manjhi
PhD, 2008 (with co-advisors Todd Mowry and Chris Olston )
Hal Burch
PhD, 2006 (with co-advisor Gary Miller)
Shuheng Zhou
PhD, 2006 (with co-advisor Greg Ganger)
Konstantin Andreev
PhD, 2005
Kay Sripanidkulchai
PhD, 2005 (with co-advisor Hui Zhang)
Claudson Bornstein
PhD, 1998 (with co-advisor Gary Miller)
Andrea Richa
PhD, 1998
Anja Feldmann
PhD, 1995 (with co-advisor Danny Sleator)
Ramesh Sitaraman
PhD, 1993 (advised by Bob Tarjan)
Teaching
Duke, CPS 514
Computer Networking Fall, 2021
MIT, 6.172
Performance Engineering of Software Systems Fall, 2019
Duke, CPS 590.01
Computer Security Spring, 2019
Publications
  • cISP: A speed-of-light Internet service provider
    D. Bhattacherjee, W. Aqeel, S. A. Jyothi, I. N. Bozkurt, W. Sentosa, M. Tirmazi, A. Aguirre, B. Chandrasekaran, B. Godfrey, G. Laughlin, B. Maggs, A. Singla
    [To appear in]Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)April2022
  • Puncturable pseudorandom sets and private information retrieval with near-optimal online bandwidth and time
    E. Shi, W. Aqeel, B. Chandrasekaran, B. Maggs
    Proceedings of the 41st Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO) August2021
  • AnyOpt: predicting and optimizing IP anycast performance
    X. Zhang, T. Sen, Z. Zhang, T. April, B. Chandrasekaran, D. Choffnes, B. M. Maggs, H. Shen, R. K. Sitaraman, and X. Yang
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM) August2021
  • Universal algorithms for clustering problems
    A. Ganesh, B. M. Maggs, D. Panigrahi
    Proceedings of the 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) July2021
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