Short biography
Sergey Gorinsky received an Engineer degree from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Zelenograd, Russia in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1999 and 2003 respectively. From 2003 to 2009, he served on the tenure-track faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Dr. Gorinsky currently works as a Senior Researcher at Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain. The areas of his primary research interests are computer networking and distributed systems. His research contributions include multicast congestion control resilient to receiver misbehavior, analysis of binary adjustment algorithms, efficient fair transfer of bulk data, network service differentiation based on performance incentives, and economic perspectives on Internet routing. His work appeared at top conferences and journals such as ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Sergey Gorinsky has served on the TPCs (technical program committees) of SIGCOMM (2012), INFOCOM (2006-2013), ICNP (2008, 2010-2012), and other networking conferences. He co-chaired E6 2012 (Energy in Communication, Information, and Cyber-physical Systems 2012, a COMSNETS 2012 workshop), HSN 2008 (High-Speed Networks 2008, an INFOCOM 2008 workshop), FIAP 2008 (Future Internet Architectures and Protocols 2008, an ICCCN 2008 symposium) and served as a TPC vice-chair for ICCCN 2009. His professional services also include general co-chairing for WoWMoM 2013 and TPC co-chairing for COMSNETS 2013.
Research interests
I am mostly interested in the area of networked systems and its following aspects: behavior of distributed entities, utilization of shared network resources, and alignment of network services with application needs. In particular, I am interested in transmission control, access control, link scheduling, buffer management and other means of effective network and system support for media streaming, bulk data transfer, and interactive delay-sensitive applications. Transgressing the traditional paradigm of networking protocol design, I investigate systems where numerous independent stakeholders are capable of behaving differently than specified by protocols. My objective is to design new network architectures and protocols that exhibit both high performance and robustness when exposed to realistic mixes of compliant behaviors, incidental failures, selfish manipulations, and malicious attacks by networked parties. Hence, my research interests span such diverse domains as network security, fault tolerance, multimedia, real-time systems, and performance evaluation. In choosing specific problems to work on, I favor those of fundamental nature so that my solutions will remain relevant over long time and for various future applications... (see my Professional Statement for more)
