Welcome to NetΣyn!
Our everyday life runs on networks. From the way we communicate to the way we learn, work, vote, and pay, all depend on a network.
NetΣyn lab's research aims at making all those networks secure, reliable, and performant.
To do so, we go beyond traditional discipline barriers and apply various techniques and technologies including measurements, machine learning, data processing, and hardware.
Interested in working with us?
Prospective PhD students: please apply here and mention my name in your application.
Prospective research interns: please email me and include your CV and one publication or project you have worked on.
Students already in Princeton: please email me, I am happy to meet and/or brainstorm about research projects or thesis.
Curious about what NetΣyn means?
Net is obviously for networks. Σyn (συν-) is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, having the same function as co- (synthesis; synoptic); used, with the meaning “with,” “together,” in the formation of compound words (synsepalous) or “synthetic” in such compounds (syngas).
News
Maria has been selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowship recognizes early-career scholars who are among the most promising scientific researchers today and whose achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.
Our proposal titled "Neurosymbolic Synthesis of Control and Diagnostic Algorithms for Networking" has received an AI Lab Seed grant from the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence.
Our papers entitled "Making Logic a First-Class Citizen in Network Data Generation with ML" and “Starfish: A Topology-Routing Co-Design for Small-Scale Data Centers” were accepted at NSDI 2026.
Our paper entitled "Passive Data-Plane Telemetry to Mitigate Long-Distance BGP Hijacks" was accepted at NINeS 2026.
Our paper entitled "Routing Attacks in Ethereum PoS:A Systematic Exploration" was accepted at FC 2026.
Our paper entitled "Confucius: Adapting Home Routers to Congestion Control's Reactions for Consistent Low Latency" was accepted at IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
Our papers entitled "Just-in-Time Logic Enforcement: A new paradigm of combining statistical and symbolic reasoning for network management" and "Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy" were accepted at HotNets 2025.
Our paper entitled "Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate" was accepted at NSDI 2026.
Minhao Jin received the Pramod Subramanyan *17 Early Career Graduate Award, recognizing his outstanding academic and research performance during the first two years of the graduate program!
2025 ECE Graduate Commencement Honors
Mirabelle Weinbach won a Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Research! Mirabelle's senior undergraduate thesis, advised by Prof. Apostolaki, explored the effects of network attacks on Ethereum.
Class 2025 ECE Awards
Our proposal for redesigning the Computer Networks (COS 461) course has received a grant from the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education.
Our NSF CAREER proposal on "Contextual Robustness for ML-powered Network-based Functions" was awarded!
