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Atul Pokharel

PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
10 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 421
New Haven, CT, 06511
U.S.A.
Curriculum Vitae
a.pokharel@yale.edu

Research

My advisors are Avi Siblerschatz and Robert Soulé. I work on topics in networking and distributed systems. My work focuses on the general area of sustainable computing. I try to use insights and tools from the study of human cooperation to design technologies to help make computing sustainable. For example, how to enable trust and scale In-band network telemetry beyond datacenters to share carbon metrics.

Biography

Atul Pokharel is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at New York Univerity. He received his A.B. from Princeton University where he majored in Mathematics and minored in Applied and Computtional Mathematics. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Urban Planning. You can order his recent book, Beyond Collective Action Problems here. He is also occasionally a Senior Security Researcher.

Computer Science Teaching

Computer Science Coursework

Publications

  1. A Case for Location-based Contact Tracing. Atul Pokharel, Robert Soulé, and Avi Silberschatz. HCMS, June 2021.
(see CV for full list of publications, including in Urban Planning and Math)