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

AVOID: Automatic Verification Of Internet Data-paths. A. Marder, J. Larrea, k. claffy, E. Kline, K. Jamieson, B. Huffaker, L. Thurlow, M. Luckie.
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Oct 2024.

REVEAL: Real-time Evaluation and Verification of External Adversarial Links. A. Marder, J. Larrea, k. claffy, E. Kline, K. Jamieson, B. Huffaker, L. Thurlow, M. Luckie.
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Oct 2024.

Coarse-grained Inference of BGP Community Intent. T. Krenc, M. Luckie, A. Marder, k. claffy.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Oct 2023.

On the Importance of Being an AS: An Approach to Country-Level AS Rankings. B. Huffaker, R. Fontugne, A. Marder, k. claffy.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Oct 2023.

Access Denied: Assessing Physical Risks to Internet Access Networks. A. Marder, Z. Zhang, R. Mok, R. Padmanabhan, B. Huffaker, M. Luckie, A. Dainotti, k. claffy, A. Snoeren, A. Schulman.
USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2023.

Thomas was with CAIDA until April 2025.