Pulse Research Fellowship and Mentorship > 2024 Fellows
2024 Fellows
James Madeley
I am a PhD researcher at Loughborough University, where I focus on compact landmark routing. My research involves creating distributed routing algorithms and comparing them against the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). I’ve also worked on visualizing large-scale emulated networks.
My current project, LocalViz, measures and visualizes Internet traffic locality. I am testing a new way to determine where traffic goes and comparing it to previous tools to make the results clear. This project helps support the Internet Society’s 50/50 Vision.
Read about the outcomes from James’ project: Where Are Your Country’s Most Popular Websites Hosted?
Jan Marius Evang
I am a network expert with three decades of experience in the development and management of national and global networks. I focus on network-product-related Internet measurements and research. Currently, I’m in the final stages of my PhD in resilient networks for critical services, where my work centers on data-driven investigations. My research explores resilience, risk management, and customer satisfaction, and I use machine learning to classify outages and outcomes.
Through my project, Enhancing National Internet Resilience, I analyze the balance between openness, security, and digital liberties. I am also studying the transition from global cloud services to national autonomy and how the regulatory landscape impacts the Internet. I plan to share my findings through academic papers and blog posts to help policymakers and the public better understand these issues.
Read about the outcomes from Jan’s project: The Fractured Web: Evaluating Mutual Trust and Sovereignty on the Modern Internet
Mike Vandersanden
I am a PhD student at Hasselt University in Belgium. I’ve been fascinated by the Internet for years, and my work has evolved into a data-driven approach to understanding networked applications. As a member of the Networked and Secure Systems research unit, I work to better the performance of these applications and make sure they are used safely and fairly. I am passionate about investigating Internet communication interference to fix root causes and help networked systems advance.
My project, Digital Vigilance, identifies network interference by developing a system that helps automate data analysis. I cross-correlate different detection methods to give researchers the insights they need to fix outages and interference.
Read about the outcomes from Mike’s project: Developing a Holistic Approach to Measuring Internet Outages
Yasir Haq
I am a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. My research focuses on the socio-economic side of cybersecurity. I use Internet measurement to investigate the security of cloud outsourcing, primarily to support strategic decision-making. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a lecturer and served as a vice president of big data for a startup in Indonesia.
During my fellowship, I am working on a project titled Measuring the Resilience of the NDS Ecosystem. The project explores the resilience of the Domain Name System (DNS) ecosystem by measuring how websites across various domain extensions adopt security techniques such as DNSSEC and Anycast. To make these findings accessible and actionable, I am developing an interactive dashboard that visualizes DNS measurement data across regions and time periods, helping researchers, policymakers, and network operators better understand trends in DNS security adoption.
Read about the outcomes from Yasir’s project: Evaluating the Technical Environment of ccTLDs
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