David DE ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ

David DE ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ

PhD Student

  • Affiliation: IMDEA Networks Institute, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (U3CM)
    • BSc: Telecommunication Technologies and Services - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Madrid, Spain
    • MSc: Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - Technical University of Munich. Munich, Germany
  • Former position: Research Intern at DE-CIX R&D
  • Joining date: February 2024

Research

  • Network Functions Virtualization
  • Programmable Networks
  • HW-Aware Design

Research Groups

Biography

I am a research assistant and doctoral candidate at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain, where I joined the Networks Data Science research group in February 2024, and ORIGAMI—Optimized Resource Integration and Global Architecture for Mobile Infrastructure for 6G, a European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) project.

My research focuses on bringing network intelligence solutions to the user plane using programmable network elements and hardware-aware designs. I’m especially interested in scalable, high-performance packet processing systems. Right now, I’m building a 100G-scale flow classification system using the Intel Tofino ASIC, where flow management policies adapt to the traffic characteristics at runtime. In an earlier project, I developed a method for partitioning and distributing large tree-based models into programmable switches to classify traffic in-network—with us latency. This work, part of the DUNE system, was recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2025.

I received my B.Eng. in Telecommunications from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2018, having completed my last academic year at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and my MSc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies from TU Munich in January 2024. My master’s thesis work titled “Towards round-trip-time guided route servers at Internet exchange points” was conducted in cooperation with DE-CIX (Europe’s largest IXP), and is currently under revision at an A venue.

In between my studies, I developed professionally as a software developer and network systems engineer within the telco industry at Cognizant Technology Solutions and Juniper Networks—I am a certified Juniper Networks Certified Professional, Data Center (JNCIP-DC).

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Service and Outreach

  • Scientific Divulgation at ”Madrid es Ciencia” Science Fair, Spring 2025
  • Organizer, IMDEA Networks Seminar, Fall 2024
  • EuroSys Artifact Evaluation Committee, Spring 2024

Professional Experience

Juniper Networks (Germany) 2019–2021
Systems Engineer, Pre-sales for a German tier 1 service provider (Global Key Account).
With my technical experience, I supported the assigned sales objectives, and cooperated as a technical resource for the sales effort.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Germany)  2018–2019
Programmer Analyst, Java and Oracle development (DevOps) for a German service provider.

Publications

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