Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Baskin School of Engineering

Title Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Adjunct Faculty

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
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Additional Location(s) -

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

Cedric Westphal is an associate adjunct professor in Computer Science and Engineering since September 2024. Prior to this, he was a Principal Research Architect with Futurewei working on future network architectures, both for wired and wireless networks from 2011 until 2024. His current focus is on next generation Internet, green networking, and networking for High Performance Computing.

He was an adjunct assistant, then associate professor in Computer Engineering in his first term with the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2009 to 2019. He has worked at DOCOMO Innovations from 2007 to 2011 in the Networking Architecture Group focusing on next generation network architectures. He was at Nokia Research Center (now Nokia Bell Labs) from 2000 to 2006. He has received a MSEE in 1995 from Ecole Centrale Paris, and a MS (1995) and PhD (2000) in EE from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1997 to 2000, he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University.

Cedric Westphal has authored and coauthored over a hundred journal and conference papers, including several best paper awards at conferences such as IEEE ICC’11, IEEE ICNC’18, IEEE MuSIC’16 and others. He has been awarded over thirty patents. He has received the IEEE Communication Society IINTC 2018 Technical Achievement Award to “recognize a lifelong set of outstanding technical contributions in the area of information infrastructure and networking.” He also has received the 2023 "Best Conference Paper Award" from the IEEE MMTC, for the best paper published within the three prior years in a conference on the topic of multi-media.

He was an area editor for the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, an assistant editor for (Elsevier) Computer Networks journal, and a guest editor for Ad Hoc Networks journal and ACM/IEEE JSAC. He is an assistant editor for IEEE Transactions on Multi-Media. He has served as a reviewer for the NSF, GENI, the EU FP7, INRIA, and other funding agencies; he has chaired the technical program committee of several conferences, including IEEE ICC (NGN symposium), IEEE NFV-SDN or IEEE IPCCC, and he was the general chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2016. He is a senior member of the IEEE.