Christopher Canel
I am a sixth-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Srinivasan Seshan
office: GHC 9009, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
email: ccanel@cmu.edu
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I build networked systems. My current research focuses on mitigating unfair network flows and preventing incast traffic bursts in a datacenter, from the receiver's point of view. Previously, I architected transport protocols for hybrid packet/circuit networks, built machine learning systems for processing streaming video data at the edge, and developed new software architectures for big data analytics that put performance clarity first.
Summer 2022: I will return to Meta as an intern on the Systems & Infrastructure, Host Networking team.
Fall 2021: I was a full instructor (with Professor Peter Steenkiste) for CMU's 15-441/641 Networking and the Internet course.
Summer 2021: I worked on microburst congestion control for datacenters with Meta's Systems & Infrastructure, Host Networking team.
From 2016-2019, I managed a student team in the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems, where we built systems for machine learning on edge devices under the guidance of Professor Dave Andersen and Michael Kaminsky. From 2014-2016, I built big data analytics systems with Kay Ousterhout and Professors Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker in the NetSys Lab. I earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2015 and an M.S. in Computer Science from CMU in 2021.
I am from San Diego, CA.
Publications Google Scholar
2020
Adapting TCP for reconfigurable datacenter networks NSDI 2020
Matthew K. Mukerjee, Christopher Canel, Weiyang Wang, Daehyeok Kim, Srinivasan Seshan, Alex C. Snoeren
2019
Scaling video analytics on constrained edge nodes SysML 2019
Christopher Canel, Thomas Kim, Giulio Zhou, Conglong Li, Hyeontaek Lim, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky,
Subramanya R. Dulloor
paper, bibtex, extended paper, poster, slides, video
2018
Mainstream: Dynamic stem-sharing for multi-tenant video processing USENIX ATC 2018
Angela Jiang, Daniel L.-K. Wong, Christopher Canel, Lilia Tang, Ishan Misra, Michael Kaminsky,
Michael A. Kozuch, Padmanabhan Pillai, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger
2017
Monotasks: Architecting for performance clarity in data analytics frameworks SOSP 2017
Kay Ousterhout, Christopher Canel, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker
Performance clarity as a first-class design principle HotOS 2017
Kay Ousterhout, Christopher Canel, Max Wolffe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker