Affiliations
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Mural
- Nicira/VMWare
- Stanford High-Performance Networking research group
Notable Awards
- ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2012)
- NEC C&C Award (2014)
- SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2017)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting Local Communities (2021)
- SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2021)
- NSDI Test of Time Award 2025)
- NSDI Test of Time Award 2026)
Recent Articles and Press
- The Financial Times (2026): “a16z’s Martin Casado: It’s not that hard to build AI models”
- Bloomberg (2026): “Andreessen Horowitz Makes a $3 Billion Bet Against the AI Bubble”
- The Wall Street Journal VC Pro (2026): “VCs Can’t Stop Saying It’s ‘Early Innings’ for AI”
- The Wall Street Journal (2025): “America Cannot Lose the Robotics Race”
- The Wall Street Journal (2025): “Why This Investor Says the AI Boom Isn’t the Next .Com Crash”
- The Economist (2024): “Keep the Code Behind AI Open”
- Fortune (Dec 2024): “a16z Partner Says He's Tired of Driving the AI Regulation Conversation”
- Fortune (Dec 2024): “Base AI Policy on Evidence, Not Existential Angst”
- The Wall Street Journal (2024): “A Venture Capitalist on Where the AI Opportunities Are for Investors”
- Invest Like The Best (2024): “Entering Uncharted AI Territory”
Selected Projects and Research
- Software Defined Networking: Exploring the broader implications of software defined networking (HotICE 12)
- Network Virtualization: Both virtualization (presto 10) and slicing (osdi 10) of the network forwarding path.
- Onix: A platform for building distributed network control planes (osdi 10).
- Software Defined Forwarding : A systems approach to accelerate network forwarding software with a traditional TCAM-based forwarding plane. (HotNets 09)
- NOX : A centralized OpenFlow control platform (CCR 08). We've explored that application of NOX to datacenters (HotNets 09), as well as security and network management (WREN 09).
- Open vSwitch : An open source soft switch for virtual environments which supports OpenFlow. (HotNets 10) (DC Caves 10)
- OpenFlow : A flow-level interface to the network datapath. The goal is to decouple the control software from the hardware forwarding to allow complex network control function to be implemented as a distributed system. (CCR 08) [Here is a list of the OpenFlow software projects that I know of]
- FML : A high-level (flow-based) variant of datalog for managing network policy. (WREN 09)
- DOEMail : A whitelisting system for e-mail. Used as the platform basis for an user-based study on the effectiveness of whitelisting. (CEAS 08)
- Ethane : A logically-centralized network architecture for managing the security policies of enterprise networks. (SIGCOMM 07), (HOTI 07), (TON 09)
- SANE : A clean-slate security architecture for enterprise networks. SANE uses encrypted source routes which are delegated by a central reference monitor as a means of enforcing security policy. (Usenix Security 06)
- Illuminati : Effort to use active HTML content to measure network properties behind NATs and Proxies. (NSDI 07)
- Opportunistic traffic measurement : Project which used spurious traffic on the Internet (e.g. scanning from endemic worms) as measurement sources. (HotNets 05)
- Flow-Cookies : (ab)Use of the TCP sequence number to cryptographically indicate that a given packet belongs to a legitimate TCP stream. Allows offloading of the TCP handshake to the network infrastructure where there is greater available bandwidth. (IWQOS 06), (SRUTI 06)
- VNS : A platform for teaching low-level network programming on real traffic (initiated by the students). VNS simulates multiple complex topologies on which students implement the forwarding elements. (SIGCSE 05), (ITICSE 05)
Teaching
- CS244 Advanced Topics in Computer Networking , Winter 2009,2010,2011.
- CS244a Computer Networking , Winter 2004,2005,2006.
- CS344 Advanced Projects in Computer Networking , Spring 2005,2006.
- U.S. Cybersecurity, Fall 2006,2007.
Education
- PhD Stanford University. (2007) in Computer Science (Dissertation: pdf).
- MS Stanford University. (2005) in Computer Science.
- BS Northern Arizona University. (2000) in Computer Science and Engineering.