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  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the management of networks and associated routing systems
  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2016 - ACM Athena Lecturer Award For innovations that improved the efficiency of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in routing Internet traffic, for laying the groundwork for software-defined networks (SDNs), and for contributions in measuring and engineering IP networks.
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the operational stability of large computer networks.
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - ACM Fellow For contributions to network control and management systems.
  • 2004 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For models, algorithms, and deployed systems that assure stable and efficient Internet routing without global coordination.

Overview

Jennifer Rexford is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with an emphasis on computer networks and communications. They have contributed extensively to subfields including artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, hardware and architecture, and signal processing.

The scientist's recent published papers include the following:

  • Using deep programmability to put network owners in control, 2020, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible, 2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Securing internet applications from routing attacks, 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • Experience-driven research on programmable networks, 2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Building Flexible, Low-Cost Wireless Access Networks with Magma, 2023, GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications

Frequent co-authors associated with Jennifer Rexford include:

  • Prateek Mittal
  • Pamela Zave
  • Henry Birge-Lee
  • Stephanie Forrest
  • Maria Apostolaki

The scholar publishes predominantly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • ACM Computing Surveys

Jennifer Rexford's peer-reviewed books are published by Princeton University Press, including multiple editions of The Real Internet Architecture released in 2024.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Network Traffic and Congestion Control
  • Interconnection Networks and Systems

Throughout their career, Jennifer Rexford has been recognized with multiple awards and honors. These include membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2020) and the National Academy of Engineering (2014). They were named an IEEE Fellow in 2018 for contributions to network management and associated routing systems.

Additional distinctions are:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2017)
  • ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2016) for innovations in Border Gateway Protocol efficiency and software-defined network foundations
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
  • ACM Fellow (2008) for network control and management systems contributions
  • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2004) for models and deployed systems ensuring stable, efficient Internet routing without global coordination

Best Publications

  • OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks

    Nick McKeown;Tom Anderson;Hari Balakrishnan;Guru Parulkar

  • P4: programming protocol-independent packet processors

    Pat Bosshart;Dan Daly;Glen Gibb;Martin Izzard

  • Rethinking virtual network embedding: substrate support for path splitting and migration

    Minlan Yu;Yung Yi;Jennifer Rexford;Mung Chiang

  • The road to SDN: an intellectual history of programmable networks

    Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford;Ellen Zegura

  • A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management

    Albert Greenberg;Gisli Hjalmtysson;David A. Maltz;Andy Myers

  • Scalable flow-based networking with DIFANE

    Minlan Yu;Jennifer Rexford;Michael J. Freedman;Jia Wang

  • Frenetic: a network programming language

    Nate Foster;Rob Harrison;Michael J. Freedman;Christopher Monsanto

  • Proxy prefix caching for multimedia streams

    S. Sen;J. Rexford;D. Towsley

  • In VINI veritas: realistic and controlled network experimentation

    Andy Bavier;Nick Feamster;Mark Huang;Larry Peterson

  • Characterizing the Internet hierarchy from multiple vantage points

    L. Subramanian;S. Agarwal;J. Rexford;R.H. Katz

  • Abstractions for network update

    Mark Reitblatt;Nate Foster;Jennifer Rexford;Cole Schlesinger

  • How to lease the internet in your spare time

    Nick Feamster;Lixin Gao;Jennifer Rexford

  • Design and implementation of a routing control platform

    Matthew Caesar;Donald Caldwell;Nick Feamster;Jennifer Rexford

  • Composing software-defined networks

    Christopher Monsanto;Joshua Reich;Nate Foster;Jennifer Rexford

  • A NICE way to test openflow applications

    Marco Canini;Daniele Venzano;Peter Perešíni;Dejan Kostić

  • Traffic engineering with traditional IP routing protocols

    B. Fortz;J. Rexford;M. Thorup

  • Stable internet routing without global coordination

    Lixin Gao;Jennifer Rexford

  • Virtual routers on the move: live router migration as a network-management primitive

    Yi Wang;Eric Keller;Brian Biskeborn;Jacobus van der Merwe

  • OpenFlow-based server load balancing gone wild

    Richard Wang;Dana Butnariu;Jennifer Rexford

  • A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions

    K. Butler;T.R. Farley;P. McDaniel;J. Rexford

  • Deriving traffic demands for operational IP networks: methodology and experience

    Anja Feldmann;Albert Greenberg;Carsten Lund;Nick Reingold

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
David Walker
David Walker Princeton University
Mung Chiang
Mung Chiang Purdue University West Lafayette
Kang G. Shin
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael J. Freedman
Michael J. Freedman Princeton University
Matthew Caesar
Matthew Caesar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Keller
Eric Keller University of Colorado Boulder
Changhoon Kim
Changhoon Kim Intel (United States)
Minlan Yu
Minlan Yu Harvard University
Jacobus Van der Merwe
Jacobus Van der Merwe University of Utah

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