Congratulations to Tianyuan Yu on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!

His dissertation, Developing a Trust Plane for Interconnected Networks, introduces a trust-plane framework that provides systematic support for authentication, authorization, and auditing in networked systems. The work brings together secure bootstrapping, trust-relationship maintenance, certificate revocation, and auditable ledgers within a unified architecture.

Tianyuan continues his work with the Internet Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. We congratulate him on this achievement and look forward to his continued contributions to the lab.

Congratulations to Varun Patil on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!

His dissertation, Enabling Decentralized Applications: A Transport Perspective, presents key components of the Named Data Networking protocol stack for resilient decentralized applications, including State Vector Sync, the NDN Distance Vector Routing Protocol, and the NDNd networking stack. The dissertation also demonstrates these components through Ownly, a decentralized collaborative workspace application.

We congratulate Varun on this achievement and wish him continued success as a Research Scientist at Meta.

Congratulations to Xinyu Ma on earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA!

His dissertation, Towards Decentralized Applications, investigates how Named Data Networking can support decentralized applications by giving users direct control over identities and data. The work develops practical building blocks for decentralized communication, storage, and collaboration without dependence on centralized service providers.

We congratulate Xinyu on this achievement and wish him continued success at Meta.