Thomas Krenc

Thomas Krenc is a postdoctoral researcher who joined CAIDA in December 2021 working on the design and developement of a scalable BGP database, and advancing BGP community and anomaly detection research using machine learning approaches. See also Thomas' homepage.

Background

Before joining CAIDA as a postdoctoral researcher, Thomas was a postdoc at the CMAND lab at NPS in Monterey, California. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the Internet Network Architectures (INET) group, Technische Universität Berlin.

Thomas’ research efforts are directed towards the security and scalability of distributed systems, as well as the development of infrastructure and data-driven approaches to model and measure the Internet ecosystem.

Thomas moved to Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) in May of 2025.

Last Publications

Towards Understanding City-Level Routing using BGP Location Communities. T. Krenc, S. Hariprasad, M. Luckie, B. Donnet, k. claffy.
ACM SIGCOMM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Dec 2025.

Noisy Neighbours: Keep the Neighbourhood Quiet. E. Jaw, T. Krenc, M. Müller, k. claffy, L. Nieuwenhuis, C. Hesselman.
International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Oct 2025.

The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms. T. Alfroy, T. Holterbach, T. Krenc, k. claffy, C. Pelsser.
ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Aug 2024.

What is a BGP community?. Jun 2024.

Internet Science Moonshot: Expanding BGP Data Horizons. T. Alfroy, T. Holterbach, T. Krenc, k. claffy, C. Pelsser.
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Nov 2023.

Thomas was with CAIDA until April 2025.