Philip Brighten Godfrey

Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Berkeley, May 2009.
M.S., UC Berkeley, 2006.
B.S. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2002.

Office: 3211 Siebel Center
Email: pbg at illinois dot edu

I am a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the CSL at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am also a technical director at VMware, which I joined in 2019 with the acquisition of our startup Veriflow, where I was co-founder and CTO. Before joining UIUC, I was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, advised by Ion Stoica, and a visiting researcher at Intel Labs Berkeley.

Ph.D. applicants: I encourage you to apply to UIUC CS for the 2025 admission season. Our group is always interested in strong applicants in the broad area of networked systems. The type of work in our group spans building networked systems, applications of ML to networked systems, and algorithms and optimization for networks. Read more about our group's current research thrusts below. Apply to our PhD program and list my name as one of the faculty you are interested to work with. UIUC has a fantastic group of faculty in the Systems and Networking space and I encourage you to explore who is the best fit for you.

Undergraduate research: Drop me an email with your resume and a transcript.

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Research

I enjoy building networked systems that address practical problems, with strong architectural and theoretical foundations. You can check out my complete list of papers. My group is currently working in several main areas:

Other areas of work recently and in the past include:

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