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
Our NSF CAREER proposal on "Contextual Robustness for ML-powered Network-based Functions" was awarded!
Our paper entitled "Robustifying ML-powered Network Classifiers with PANTS" was accepted at USENIX Security 2025.
Our NSDI ‘24 paper “TANGO: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the Public Internet” was awarded the 2025 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP). ANRP recognizes the best recent results in applied networking and interesting new research ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards community.
Our paper entitled "A Layered Formal Methods Approach to Answering Queue-related Queries" was accepted at NSDI 2025.
Our paper entitled "Global BGP Attacks that Evade Route Monitoring" was accepted at PAM 2025.
Maria is the keynote speaker for the 2024 P4 Workshop. The workshop is an opportunity for the P4 ecosystem to share knowledge and experiences with the broader community and to facilitate collaboration. The 2024 P4 Workshop will take place October 3rd at the Google’s Moffett Park Campus in Sunnyvale, California.
Keynote Video
Keynote Slides
Anna Eaton won the department's top honor, the Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet & Medal, recognizing her extraordinary research efforts. Anna's senior undergraduate thesis, advised by Prof. Apostolaki, uncovered a key network security vulnerability in routers.
Class 2024 ECE Awards
Our paper entitled "Zoom2Net: Constrained Network Telemetry Imputation" was accepted at SIGCOMM 2024.
Our papers entitled "Tango: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the Public Internet" and "Reverie: Low Pass Filter-Based Switch Buffer Sharing for Datacenters with RDMA and TCP Traffic" were accepted at NSDI 2024.
Our paper entitled "Towards Integrating Formal Methods into ML-Based Systems for Networking" was accepted at HotNets 2023.
Maria participated in the annual Women in STEM panel of the Council of Science and Technology at Princeton University. The panel aimed to provide a low-barrier environment for undergraduate students, especially freshmen, to meet and network with faculty and their peers to build supportive communities.
Our proposal on "Fine-grained Network Monitoring via Software Imputation" with Prof. Gupta as co-PI was awarded an NSF grant in the Internet Measurement Research (IMR) program! Thanks NSF!
