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Dr. Katrina LaCurts Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Officer, MIT EECS lacurts@mit.edu 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 38-476 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: +1 617 253 4613 |
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About
I am a Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Officer in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
My primary academic interests lie in the intersection of computer systems and society, and I specialize in teaching large undergraduate systems courses. Currently I teach 6.1800 (Computer Systems Engineering), and 6.1850 (Computer Systems and Society). I was also involved with 6.02 (Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks) for a long time.
As EECS Undergraduate Officer, I manage the undergraduate office, which serves nearly 1700 undergraduate and MEng students. In this role I've led efforts to make information and processes in the department more accessible and transparent to students and advisors. I currently serve on the Office of Minority Education's Faculty Advisory Committee and am one of the inaugural CES Infusion Fellows; I've also been involved with SERC, and much of that work shows up in my teaching. In 2021 I received the inaugural School of Engineering Distinguished Educator Award.
Outside of work, I can usually be found looking at birds, powerlifting, or chasing after my perfect dogs, Broccoli and Junebug.
Teaching
I've been the lead instructor for 6.1800 since 2015 and developed 6.1850 in Fall 2021. I was the lead instructor for 6.02 from 2014-2021.
Refereed Publications
Active Learning in Undergraduate Computer Systems: Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic (pdf)
K. LaCurts, M. Ghobadi, K. Sollins. ACM SIGCOMM Online Networking Education Workshop 2020
Cicada: Introducing Predictive Guarantees for Cloud
Networks (pdf)
K. LaCurts, J. Mogul, H. Balakrishnan, Y. Turner. HotCloud
2014
Choreo: Network-Aware Task Placement for Cloud
Applications (pdf
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K. LaCurts,
S. Deng, A. Goyal, H. Balakrishnan. IMC 2013
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
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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
Technical Reports
Cicada: Predictive Guarantees for Cloud Network
Bandwidth (pdf)
K. LaCurts, J. Mogul, H. Balakrishnan, Y. Turner. MIT-CSAIL-TR-2014-004
A Plan for Optimizing Network-Intensive Cloud
Applications
(pdf)
K. LaCurts, S. Deng, H. Balakrishnan. MIT-CSAIL-TR-2013-003
Theses
Application Workload Prediction and Placement in Cloud Computing
Systems
(pdf)
K. LaCurts. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT EECS. 2014
Measurement and Analysis of Real-World 802.11 Mesh
Networks (pdf)
K. LaCurts. Master's Thesis, MIT EECS. 2010
Software
I'm not actively involved with any software projects at the moment, but in the past I've done some work with OpenDaylight and Zeek (formerly Bro). My Zeek branch has been used
for some
interesting research.