Matthew Caesar will be joining as an assistant professor starting Fall 2008 in the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the upcoming academic year, he will be a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton. 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 interests involve 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.