Rafael Pinaud Laufer was born in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. In 2003, he received his B. Sc. "
cum
laude" degree in
Electrical and Computer
Engineering from
Universidade Federal do
Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
In 2005, he received the M. Sc. degree also in
Electrical
Engineering at
COPPE/UFRJ, advised
by
Prof. Otto C. M. B. Duarte.
He was with the
GTA Laboratory
from 2000 to 2005. Exceptionally, during 2002, he was with
Cisco
Systems, Inc. Currently, he is a Ph.D student in the
Computer Science Department at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
His major research interests are distributed systems, networking, and operating systems.