Primary Job Title Professor of Computer Systems and Networks Primary Organization University College London (UCL)
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Brad Karp is a Professor of Computer Systems and Networks and Head of the Systems and Networks Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). His research interests span computer system and network security (current work includes web browser and JavaScript security; past work includes the Wedge secure OS
extensions and the Autograph and Polygraph worm signature generation systems); large-scale distributed systems (recent work includes LOUP, a provably loop-free Internet routing protocol; past work includes the Open DHT shared public DHT service); and wireless networks (current work includes techniques for improving capacity at the MAC and PHY layers; past work includes the GPSR and CLDP scalable geographic routing protocols). Prior to taking up his post at UCL in late 2005, Karp held joint appointments at Intel Research and Carnegie Mellon, and as a researcher at ICSI at UC Berkeley. He is a recipient of the Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award (2005-2010). He served as program co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2015, and currently serves on the ACM SIGCOMM Technical Steering Committee. Karp earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University in 2000, and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University, earned in 1992.
