Simone Ferlin
Scholar

Simone Ferlin

Google Scholar ID: 9-l0170AAAAJ
Senior performance engineer, senior adjunct lecturer
Internetmobile networkstransport protocolscongestion controlsecurity
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,980
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
37
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
17
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'NetConfEval: Can LLMs Facilitate Network Configuration?' awarded the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2025
  • Multiple papers accepted at top venues including ACM CoNEXT'24, ACM IMC'24, IEEE Access, ANRW'25, and ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'24)
  • Workshop co-chair for ACM SIGCOMM 2025 (with Marco Canini)
  • Member of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW) steering committee
  • Former Associate Technical Editor (ATE) for IEEE Communications Magazine (stepped down Nov 2024)
  • TPC member for ACM CoNEXT'25 and PAM'25
  • Supervised Master’s thesis by Emil Ståhl on 'Improving Megaflow Cache Performance in Open vSwitch with Coflow-Aware Branch Prediction', presented at OvSCon'24
Background
  • Performance engineer and adjunct senior lecturer
  • Researches networks at the intersection of mobile networks and the Internet
  • Research interests include network and system measurements, performance analysis, security, and congestion control
  • Interested in how networks (e.g., the Internet) evolve—how technologies are developed, adopted, and impact different entities
  • Focuses on harmonizing, improving usability, and assessing security and privacy