Matthew Caesar is an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He recently completed his Ph.D.
in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  He had extended
internships in research groups at AT&T Labs and Microsoft Research. He was
awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Defense Science
and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.  His research involves
simplifying the management of distributed systems and networks through
principles of self-organization and self-diagnosis, with an emphasis on
sensornet/wireless networks, overlay networks, and the Internet.