Rafael Laufer

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Contact Information

  3564 Boelter Hall
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  Los Angeles, CA 90095

  Email: rlaufer _AT_ cs _DOT_ ucla _DOT_ edu
  Phone:  +1 310 825-1340
  Fax:  +1 310 206-3053

Short Biography

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 advisor is Prof. Leonard Kleinrock. His major research interests are distributed systems and networking.