June 15, 2025 / by IRL

Varun Patil's Graduation

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.