Anja Feldmann
Biography
As the Internet has evolved—and, at times, threatened to devolve into gridlock— Anja Feldmann’s knowledge of network protocols and her mastery in collecting and analyzing measurement data from networks have been critical to its maintenance and improvement. She designed the first system for cross-layer analysis of traffic, she demonstrated how to efficiently carry HTTP traffic over ATM networks, she created the first system for measuring traffic matrices to guide traffic-engineering decisions, and she developed the first router-configuration analysis and verification system. The measurement and analysis tools she built laid the foundation for the design and management of IP networks across the industry. The functionality and resilience of our global communications infrastructure is due in large part to her contributions.
Feldmann is Director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany and is the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for "contributions to the field of networking and Internet technologies, specifically to traffic engineering, network measurements, and Internet protocols."
