I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), advised by Professor George Porter. I am also part of the Systems and Networking group (SysNet) at UCSD.

My research interests broadly lie in computer networks.

Prior to UCSD, I was a Research Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University and was advised by Professor Justine Sherry and Professor Srinivasan Seshan.

Publications

• Reconfigurability within Collective Communication Algorithms [PDF]
  Rukshani Athapathu, George Porter
  Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Networks for AI Computing (NAIC ‘25), Sep. 2025
• Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking [PDF]
  William M. Mellette, Alex Forencich, Rukshani Athapathu, Alex C. Snoeren, George Papen, George Porter
  ACM SIGCOMM, Aug. 2024
• Prudentia: Findings of an Internet Fairness Watchdog [PDF]
  Adithya Abraham Philip, Rukshani Athapathu, Ranysha Ware, Fabian Francis Mkocheko, Alexis Schlomer, Mengrou Shou, Zili Meng, Srinivasan Seshan, Justine Sherry
  ACM SIGCOMM, Aug. 2024
• Revisiting TCP Congestion Control Throughput Models & Fairness Properties At Scale [PDF]
  Adithya Abraham Philip, Ranysha Ware, Rukshani Athapathu, Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar
  ACM IMC, Nov. 2021

Posters

• A Watchdog Service for Measuring Congestion Control Harm on the Internet [Abstract]
  Rukshani Athapathu, Ranysha Ware, Aditya Abraham Philip, Srinivasan Seshan, Justine Sherry
  N2Women’20, ACM SIGCOMM, Aug. 2020
• NADA Fairness: Analyzing the Future of WebRTC
  [Abstract]
  Serena Vincent, Adithya Phillip, Rukshani Athapathu, Justine Sherry, Srinivasan Seshan
  N2Women’20, ACM SIGCOMM, Aug. 2020