[Air-L] ISOC announces 2025 Pulse Research Fellows and Mentors

[Joly MacFie]

https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/announcing-2025-pulse-research-fellows-and-mentors

February 18, 2025

The Internet Society is pleased to announce the third cohort of Pulse
Research Fellows <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/fellowship> and the
first cohort of Pulse Research Mentors.

Over the next eight months, the fellows and mentors will work with the
Internet Society Pulse Research team to develop their proposed research
projects. The Pulse Research Fellowship and Mentorship allows individuals
to bring new perspectives, innovative ideas, and research experience to the
Pulse project, improving our understanding and analysis of the
availability, evolution, and resilience of the Internet.
Fellows
Name Project
[image: Nish Acharya profile photo] Nishant Acharya
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-acharya-61a28b154/> Quantifying the
Impact of IXP <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/glossary#ixp> Shutdowns
[image: Antonios Chatzivasiliou profile photo] Antonios Chatzivasiliou
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonis-chatzivasiliou-658872181/> Internet
Infrastructure Changes in Times of Crisis
[image: Dipsy Desai profile photo] Dipsy Desai
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipsydesai/> Minimizing Unwanted Incoming
Queries to b.root-server (DNS
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/glossary#dns> root-server)
[image: Deepak Gouda profile photo] Deepak Gouda
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakgouda/> Who Owns the Internet? Analyzing
Market Concentration in Global IP
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/glossary#ip> Address Space
[image: Rashna Kumar profile photo] Rashna Kumar
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashna-kumar-b746751a1/> Concentration and
Consolidation of the Internet
[image: Riya Ponraj profile photo] Riya Ponraj
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyaponraj/> Network-Physical Layer Mapping
for Enhanced Internet Resilience and Security
[image: Karthik Nishanth profile photo] Karthik Nishanth QUICensor: A
Global Measurement Study of QUIC Blocking
[image: Tanya Shreedhar profile photo] Tanya Shreedhar
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-shreedhar-ph-d-90a2aa147/> Bridging AS
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/glossary#as> Topology and Traffic
Affinity for Network Resilience
[image: Florian Steurer profile photo] Florian Steurer
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-steurer-515891272/> Measuring DNS
resilience
[image: Martin Thodi profile photo] Martin Thodi Quantifying Local Internet
Traffic – An Ensemble of MethodsMentors
[image: Marinho Barcellos profile photo]Marinho Barcellos
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/marinho-barcellos-2669b96/> [image: Alexander
Gamerro-Garido profile photo]Alexander Gamerro-Garido
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/agamerog/> [image: Vasileios Giotsas profile
photo]Vasileios Giotsas <https://www.linkedin.com/in/giotsas/>
[image: Liz Izhikevich profile photo]Liz Izhikevich
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizizhikevich/> [image: Kevin Vermeulen
profile photo]Kevin Vermeulen
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/k%C3%A9vin-vermeulen-1a5b049b/>

Thanks to everyone who applied. We received 235 applications from 56
countries, of which 30 were selected to provide a detailed project
proposal. All shortlisted projects were of very high quality and relevant
to Pulse’s four focuses, which seek to measure and understand Internet
shutdowns, Internet enabling technologies, Internet resilience, and market
concentration.


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