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General Information

Full Name Loqman Salamatian
Date of Birth 22 December 1995
Languages English, French, Farsi, German

Education

  • 2020
    PhD
    Columbia University, New York City, USA
    • Advised by Pr. Ethan Katz-Bassett, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein
    • Research
      • Manifold Representation of the Internet
      • Missing Peering Links
      • IPv4 Squatting
      • Bloom Filter
  • 2018 - 2020
    Master Degree
    University of Paris VI, Paris, France
    • Master 1 - Mathematics
    • Master 2 - Applied Mathematics
  • 2015 - 2017
    Undergraduate Degree
    University of Luxembourg, Belval, Luxembourg
    • Bachelor in mathematics
    • Exchange Year in Hong Kong University in 2016-2017

Experience

  • 2024
    Student Researcher
    Google, New York City, USA
    • Research on using reverse traceroute to detect user-facing anomalies.
  • 2018 - 2022
    Consulting
    Cassini, Paris, France
    • Data scientist and write-up of reports to be shared with different customers of Cassini consulting
  • 2020 - 2021
    Data Scientist in the Analysis Group
    Cyber Peace Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Researcher in the Analysis Group of the Cyber Peace Institute in Geneva
  • 2019
    Visiting Researcher
    University of California in San Diego (UCSD) - CAIDA
    • Research Internship with Alberto Dainotti
  • 2018 -
    Researcher
    Geode Research Center
    • Cyberstrategy
    • Geopolitics of the cyberspace and visualizing tools
  • 2017 - 2018
    Visiting Researcher
    CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
    • Research on BGP anomaly detections using optimal transport

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Best of CCR
  • 2022
    • Communications of ACM - Research Highlight
  • 2021
    • RACI Grant - RIPE, *Mapping connectivity and digital space in Central Asia*
  • 2020
    • Columbia Dean's fellowship
  • 2019
    • RACI Grant - RIPE, *Geopolitics of routing, what RIPE tells us of geography and power a methodlogical approach*
    • Web Mapping Challenge SYNAPSE

Talks

  • 2022
    • Google, Curvature-based Analysis of Network Connectivity in Private Backbone Infrastructures, Virtual
  • 2021
    • 34th International Geographical Congress (IGC 2020), The journey, not the destination matters - untangling data and sovereignity in the Far West with Louis Pétiniaud & On a collaborative effort to map the Internet with Louis Pétiniaud, Virtual
  • 2019
    • Oxford Life Connected Life Conference, The geopolitics behind the routes data travel - a case study of Iran, London and Oxford
    • 15ème Congrès de l’Association Française de Science Politique - Les "ruses numériques " dans les couches basses du réseau - les usages du Border Gateway Protocol dans les conflits térritoriaux, Bordeaux
    • International Workshop - Internet, Digital Data, Power and Rivalries in the Post-Soviet Area, Discussant in the Panel - The routes of the post-soviet Internet - protocols, measurements and cartography, Paris
  • 2020
    • Forum International de la Cybersécurité, BGP - protocole technique, outil politique - facteur politique de l’infrastructure, Lille
    • American Political Science Association - Democracy, Difference and Destabilization (APSA), Mapping the Dissemination of Russian Narratives on Social Networks in France, Virtual

Academic Interests

  • Theoretical
    • Riemannian Geometry
    • Ricci Flow
    • Optimal Transport
    • Network Theory
    • Machine Learning
    • Curvature
    • Game Theory
  • Applied
    • Internet Measurement
    • GIS
    • Network Systems
    • Congestion Control