Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo

Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Minimizing Human Error in Modern Networks
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Email: mina (dot) arashloo (at) uwaterloo.ca
Office: DC 3510
CV (last updated May 2026)

I am an assistant professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo and a Canada Research Chair in "Minimizing Human Error in Modern Networks". Before joining Waterloo, I was a Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow at the computer science department of Cornell University, working with Nate Foster, and Rachit Agarwal. I received my PhD in computer science from Princeton University, where I was advised by Jennifer Rexford. I got my B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from department of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology.

Research Interests: I am primarily interested in networked systems, with a focus on software defined networking (SDN) and programmable data planes. I explore how to make networks more robust by developing tools for automated analysis of network functionality, generating correct and efficient implementations on high-speed network hardware, and monitoring for validation purposes at run-time.

Personal: My other half, Sepehr Assadi, does theoretical computer science at University of Waterloo.

Prospective Students: I am looking for highly-motivated students to join my lab! If you are interested in working with me, please make sure to list my name as a potential advisor in your application.

Getting in touch: If you are interested in research positions in our group, please fill out the corresponding google form as described below. Unfortunately, I may not be able to respond to any other types of communication regarding graduate admissions.


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May 2026 Kimiya's work on PITA, a protocol-independent hardware architecture for the transport layer, is now available on arXiv.
March 2026 Mohammad's work on analyzing DRL agents in systems and networking will appear at SIGMETRICS 2026.
January 2026 Beihao received an honorable mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
December 2025 Amir's work on formal analysis of network contention points will appear at NSDI 2026.
December 2025 Niloy's work on SLA-aware network slice monitoring will appear at SIGMETRICS 2026.
October 2025 I gave the keynote at the P4 workshop on high-level and target-agnostic transport programs.
October 2025 I gave a systems seminar at UC Berkeley on high-level and target-agnostic transport programs.
June 2025 Beihao's work on an eBPF-accelerated pub-sub broker will appear at SIGCOMM 2025's eBPF Workshop.
June 2025 Kimiya was awarded a Mitacs Accelerate with AMD.
June 2025 I gave a keynote at IEEE NetSoft on efficient abstractions for network quality of service.
February 2025 I gave a colloquium talk at University of Windsor on automated proactive analysis of network performance.
September 2024 Amir's work on language-based abstractions for network performance analysis will appear at HotNets 2024.
April 2024 I was awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Minimizing Human Error in Operating Modern Networks.
April 2024 I gave a talk on logic-based analysis of network performance at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Network Calculus.
May 2023 I gave a (virtual) talk on formal methods for network performance analysis at ETH Zurich.
May 2023 I gave a (virtual) talk on formal methods for network performance analysis at HP Labs.
April 2023 I served as the Technical Program Committee Chair for the P4 Workshop 2023.
June 2023 Mohammad's early work on analyzing DRL agents in systems and networking will appear at the WFVML workshop at ICML 2023.
April 2023 I received an NSERC Discovery Grant and Early Career Supplement.
December 2022 Our work on using formal methods for analyzing network performance will appear at NSDI 2023.

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