Kevin Vermeulen
LIX
1 Rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
Palaiseau, 91120, France
I am Kevin Vermeulen, a CNRS researcher at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. Until March 2025, I was a CNRS researcher at LAAS-CNRS.
I am interested in building networked measurement systems to better understand and improve the Internet.
In particular the systems and techniques that I develop are related to these different topics:
- Network topology
- Network performance
- Network security
- Traffic engineering
Before joining the CNRS, I was a postdoc at Columbia University working with professor Ethan Katz-Bassett.
I obtained my doctorate in 2020 under the supervision of professor Timur Friedman at Sorbonne Université.
I am the maintainer of the Reverse Traceroute system. The system currently runs more than a million reverse traceroutes per day in coordination with the M-Lab NDT speedtests. The data are publicly available here.
Awards:
- Best paper award for our paper “The New (Pareto) Frontier of Cloud Routing: High Availability, Precise Control, or Configuration Stability-Choose Two” (ACM CoNEXT 2025)
- Best paper award for our paper “GeoGiant: Vers une géolocalisation d’adresses IP à l’échelle grâce aux géants d’Internet” (CoRes 2024)
- Best artifact award for our paper “Replication: Towards a Publicly Available Internet scale IP Geolocation Dataset” (ACM IMC 2023)
- Best short paper award for our paper “The best of both worlds: high availability CDN routing without compromising control” (ACM IMC 2022)
- ISOC Pulse program mentor fellowship 2025 (10K$)
news
| Nov 18, 2025 | Our paper “Unpacking Internet Ossification: A Large-Scale Study of Path-Impairing Middleboxes Across IPv4 and IPv6” has been accepted to PAM 2026! Congrats to Fahad, my student at MPI, for his work! |
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| Sep 12, 2025 | Our paper “The New (Pareto) Frontier of Cloud Routing: High Availability, Precise Control, or Configuration Stability-Choose Two” has been accepted to ACM CoNEXT 2025! Congrats to Jiangchen, student at Columbia University, for his work! |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Our paper “Autonomous Systems under AReST: Advanced Revelation of Segment Routing Tunnels” has been accepted to ACM IMC 2025! Congrats to Florian Dekinder, student at Université de Liège, for his work! |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Our paper “GeoResolver: An Accurate, Scalable, and Explainable Geolocation Technique Using DNS Redirection” has been accepted to ACM CoNEXT 2025! Congrats to my student Hugo Rimlinger for his work! |
| Apr 05, 2025 | Our paper “ECSeptional DNS Data: Evaluating Nameserver ECS Deployments with Response-Aware Scanning” has been accepted to ACM CoNEXT 2025! |
selected publications
- The New (Pareto) Frontier of Cloud Routing: High Availability, Precise Control, or Configuration Stability-Choose TwoProceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2025
- GeoResolver: An Accurate, Scalable, and Explainable Geolocation Technique Using DNS RedirectionProceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2025
- metAScritic: Reframing AS-Level Topology Discovery as a Recommendation SystemIn Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference , 2024
- A First Look At IPv6 Hypergiant InfrastructureProceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2024
- Multilevel MDA-lite Paris tracerouteIn Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) , 2018
- Diamond-Miner: Comprehensive Discovery of the Internet’s Topology DiamondsIn Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , 2020
- Internet scale reverse tracerouteIn Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) , 2022
- Replication: Towards a Publicly Available Internet scale IP Geolocation DatasetIn Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) , 2023