Marina Kuriakkose Thottan is a computer scientist specializing in the performance, management, and security of computer networks and smart grids. She is a principal research scientist at Amazon Web Services.[1]

Education and career

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Thottan has a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, completed in 2000. Her dissertation, Fault Detection and Prediction for the Management of Computer Networks, was supervised by Chuanyi Ji.[2]

She became a researcher for Bell Labs in 1999,[3] and became vice president of network and security research there before moving to her present position at Amazon.[1]

Book

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With Kenneth C. Budka and Jayant G. Deshpande, Thottan is coauthor of the book Communication Networks for Smart Grids: Making Smart Grid Real (Springer, 2014).[1]

Recognition

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Thottan is a Bell Labs Fellow. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for leadership in high-speed internet-protocol networks".[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Keynote speakers", NOMS 2022, IEEE, retrieved 2023-06-10
  2. ^ Marina Thottan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Marina Thottan", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, July 2019, retrieved 2023-06-10
  4. ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-06-10
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