Katrina LaCurts katrina@csail.mit.edu 32 Vassar St., Room 32-G982 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: +1 617 253 7341 CV: pdf

I am a Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, where I work with Hari Balakrishnan in the NMS group. I've also worked with Jeff Mogul at HP Labs, and Vern Paxson at ICIR/ICSI. I received my master's in computer science from MIT in 2010 and my bachelors in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2008. I am fortunate to be supported in part by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

I am interested in networking and systems. Most of my work involves network measurement, lately revolving around making client applications for cloud computing infrastructures and datacenters network-aware in order to improve performance.

Making Currency Inexpensive with iOwe (pdf)
D. Levin, A. Schulman, K. LaCurts, N. Spring, B. Bhattacharjee. NetEcon 2011

Measurement and Analysis of Real-World 802.11 Mesh Networks (pdf | slides)
K. LaCurts, H. Balakrishnan. IMC 2010

VTrack: Accurate, Energy-aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones (pdf | web)
A. Thiagarajan, L. Ravindranath, K. LaCurts, S. Toledo, J. Eriksson, S. Madden, H. Balakrishnan. SenSys 2009. Awarded Best Paper

BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent's Incentives (pdf | web)
D. Levin, K. LaCurts, N. Spring, B. Bhattacharjee. SIGCOMM 2008

A Plan for Optimizing Network-Intensive Cloud Applications (pdf)
K. LaCurts, S. Deng, H. Balakrishnan. MIT-CSAIL-TR-2013-003

Measurement and Analysis of Real-World 802.11 Mesh Networks (pdf)
K. LaCurts. Master's Thesis, MIT EECS

Criticisms of the Turing Test and Why You Should Ignore (Most of) Them (pdf | slides)
K. LaCurts. 6.893 class project, MIT EECS

Below is a list of software that I've been involved with at some point, roughly in reverse chronological order.