Research Scientist @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Distinguished Scientist at Technicolor Research Palo Alto @ Conducted research in multiple aspects of Internet privacy. My specialty is in applying mathematical and statistical methods (such as optimization and data mining) to a broad range of problems related to computer networking. From May 2011 to September 2014 (3 years 5 months) Senior Research Scientist @ Conducted research in Internet security, technologies for disaster response and personalized computing. From October 2003 to April 2011 (7 years 7 months) Distinguished Member of Technical Staff @ Senior Research Scientist in Research Labs. Research focused on management of resources in Internet backbone infrastructure: Using statistical models for Internet traffic measurement, characterization, prediction and management; Internet routing based upon traffic patterns and resiliency to failures. From March 1999 to October 2003 (4 years 8 months) Research Engineer @ Conducted research on selecting paths for routing through the Internet that were robust to equipment failures, and methods for controlling congestion due to Internet traffic. From 1995 to 1999 (4 years)
PhD, Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 1989 to 1994 Nina Taft is skilled in: Computer Science, Research, Network Design, Data Mining, Internet Security, Bandwidth, Network Architecture, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Mobile Devices, Analytics, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Signal Processing, LaTeX, Computer Vision, Algorithms