Sulyab Thottungal Valapu

I am a sixth year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California, and a member of the ANT Lab. My advisor is Prof. John Heidemann.

My research uses Internet measurement to understand the real-world effects of the Internet’s ongoing evolution, whether driven by new protocols (such as IPv6), changing deployment practices (such as cloud computing), or new applications (such as Web3). I focus on developing methods to measure how these changes are adopted in practice and on understanding the complications that arise as old and new mechanisms overlap, with implications for the security, privacy, and usability of the Internet. Recently, I have been studying the security risks that arise when DNS is integrated with other naming ecosystems (such as cryptocurrency wallets and software repositories) where stale linkages can be exploited, as well as IPv6 adoption and the privacy risks and opportunities created by the shift to IPv6.

I received my B.Tech. in Information Technology from IIIT Allahabad in 2018. Between then and joining USC, I worked as a software engineer at Arista Networks, where I was part of the routing team.