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Curriculum vitae of Deepak Gouda.

General Information

Full Name Deepak Gouda
Email deepakgouda@gatech.edu
Website deepakgouda.github.io
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/deepakgouda

Education

  • 2022–27
    Ph.D., Computer Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Advisor: Dr. Cecilia Testart
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
    • Expected August 2027
  • 2022–24
    M.S., Computer Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • 2016–20
    B.Tech., Mathematics and Computing
    Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
    • Top 5% of the class
    • GPA: 8.80/10.0

Research Interests

  • Internet Routing
  • Routing Security
  • Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
  • Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
  • Internet Measurement

Experience

  • 2026
    Research Intern
    Netflix, Open Connect
    • May – December 2026
    • Developing a framework to perform near real-time detection of congestion in ISP networks using end-to-end measurements
    • Designed a system to initiate path measurements to localize congestion events
  • 2025
    Student Researcher
    Google, Global Networking
    • June – September 2025
    • Developed the specification for a next-generation route streaming protocol using gRPC and OpenConfig to provide richer, more efficient telemetry data than the industry-standard BMP
    • Designed and implemented the reference vendor protocol implementation on KNE, coordinating across internal teams and external vendors to define core requirements
  • 2023
    Research Intern
    Internet Initiative Japan
    • June – July 2023
    • Advisor: Romain Fontugne
    • Performed multi-dimensional analysis of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) adoption among Autonomous Systems (ASes) to identify key variables that drive the adoption of safe practices, including AS topology, location, and organization type
    • Evaluated the effectiveness of Route Origin Validation (ROV) in promoting RPKI adoption among ASes and its impact on network security

Publications

Posters

Talks

  • 2026
    Are you RPKI Ready? The Road Left to Full ROA Adoption
    • IETF-125, Shenzen, China
    • ACM IMC 2025, Madison, US
  • 2025
    Prefix2Org: Mapping BGP Prefixes to Organizations
    • ACM IMC 2025, Madison, US
    • Google Routing Security Seminar (internal)
  • 2025
    On Centralization of IP Layer
    Pulse Internet Measurement Forum, Barcelona, ES
  • 2025
    Inferring ROV Policies using Internet Yellow Pages and Ark
    GMI-AIMS Workshop, CAIDA, San Diego, US
  • 2024
    Understanding the Mirai Botnet
    CS 8803 Securing Internet Infrastructure, Georgia Tech
  • 2024
    Decoding Barriers: Identifying Disparities in Routing Security Adoption
    Technology, Data, and Policy Conference, MIT

Projects

  • 2025–
    Analyzing Concentration of IP Address Space
    • Goal: identify consolidation of the Internet's routing infrastructure that may lead to single points of failure with potential country-wide impact
    • Leveraged the Prefix2Org dataset to quantify the consolidation of Internet resources among organizations within each country
    • Used statistical and empirical analysis to measure the concentration of routed prefixes and RPKI adoption among dominant organizations, revealing monopolistic structures impacting more than 15 countries in Africa and 5 in the Middle East
    • Currently estimating the population potentially affected by the outage of a single organization to assess systemic risks to Internet accessibility and resilience worldwide

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • Pulse Research Fellowship ($17,000), Internet Society
  • 2024
    • Student Travel Grant, ACM IMC
  • 2023
    • Student Travel Grant, ACM IMC
  • 2022
    • Student Travel Grant (one of 8 students), ACM HotNets
  • 2020
    • Founding member of InfoSecIITG, ranked 298 globally, IIT Guwahati
  • 2018
    • 1st runner-up, Microsoft CodeFunDo++ coding hackathon
    • Top 20 among 2700+ teams, American Express Data Science Hackathon
  • 2017
    • 1st position in Robotics Exposition, DRDO, Department of Defense, India
  • 2016
    • 99.2 percentile among 200,000 applicants, JEE Advanced
    • 99.9 percentile among 1.2 million applicants, JEE Mains

Teaching

  • 2024
    Teaching Assistant, Advanced Computer Networking
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Spring 2024
  • 2023–24
    Teaching Assistant, Securing Internet Infrastructure
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Fall 2023, Fall 2024

Service

  • 2026
    Shadow TPC
    ACM IMC
  • 2023–26
    Artifact Evaluation Committee
    ACM CoNEXT
    • 2023, 2024, 2026
  • 2023
    ACM Professional Member
  • 2023
    Volunteer, EECS Rising Stars
  • 2020
    Mentor, Placement Committee
    IIT Guwahati
  • 2017–20
    National Service Scheme
    IIT Guwahati

Mentoring

  • Agam Saraf (MS)
  • Abhishek Dharmadhikari (MS)
  • Bhawna Kumari (MS)
  • Sahil Samantaray (MS 2026)
  • Nandakishore Velu (MS 2026)
  • Siddharth Prabhu (MS 2025)
  • Tanish Rastogi (MS 2023)

Skills

  • Languages
    • C++, Python, MATLAB, Bash, LaTeX
  • Data
    • Scikit, NumPy, Pandas, Plotly, SQL, Monte Carlo Simulations
  • AI
    • PyTorch, Transformers, LLMs
  • Networks
    • Systems, Security, TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, DNS, Routing
  • Miscellaneous
    • Airflow, Git, Debian, Linux, Docker

Key Courses

  • Computer Networks
    • Network Security
    • Advanced Computer Networks
    • Internet Data Science
    • Securing Internet Infrastructure
    • Data Communication
  • Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning for Text
    • Big Data Systems
    • Online Convex Optimization
    • Statistical Machine Learning
    • Advanced Linear Algebra