Dr. Jennifer Rexford is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering in the computer science department at Princeton University. She previously spent eight and a half years at AT&T Research, where she designed the Routing Control Platform (RCP), an early SDN architecture for backbone networks. Her current research focuses on programming abstractions for SDNs, and applications in enterprise, data-center, and cellular core networks. She was the 2004 winner of ACM’s Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional, and was listed on MIT Technology Review’s 2004 TR-100 list of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35.