Ramakrishnan (Ram) Durairajan, Department of Computer Science

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Ram Durairajan is an academic expert in cybersecurity, computer networking, multi-cloud computing, internet data science and programmable Optics. He's interested in developing new techniques and tools to empirically measure issues, properties and characteristics of the Internet; and building decision-support systems to enhance Internet robustness by mitigating risks, outages, and cybersecurity issues identified using empirical measurements. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and is a recipient of a 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. 

Recent Media:
UO computer scientist is the latest to get NSF Career Award (Around the O, March 21, 2022)
Researcher awarded $2.4 million to improve internet security (Around the O, Oct. 28, 2021)
Study by UW-Madison, UO details vulnerable internet infrastructure due to sea level rise (Photonics Media, December, 2018)
Sea level rise to jeopardize U.S. internet infrastructure in 15 Years, study says (Forbes, Aug. 11, 2018)
Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you think (Popular Science, July 19, 2018)