RACI
Talented researchers in the field of Internet technology share their work with the RIPE community as part of the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI). Successful applicants receive complimentary tickets, travel, and accommodation to attend meetings and get the opportunity to present their research to some of the leading technical figures in the Internet world.
Successful RACI Applicants for RIPE 92
Remi Hendriks, University of Twente
“Anycast in underserved regions”
Plenary: Monday, May 18 at 16:00 ‐ 17:30 (UTC +0100)
Remi Hendriks is a third-year PhD student in the DACS group at the University of Twente, Netherlands. His research focuses on **anycast** as a tool to both measure and improve Internet resiliency.
His work includes LACES, an open, fast, and responsible longitudinal anycast census system published at IMC 2025, developed with support from the RIPE NCC Community Project Fund. Remi is especially interested in deploying anycast in underserved regions and welcomes collaboration on this topic.
Ginevra Fabrizio, University of Twente
“Measuring The Impact of Post-Quantum Cryptography on Complex Applications: A Case Study on Federated Identity Management“
Plenary: Friday, May 22 at 11:00 ‐ 12:30 (UTC +0100)
Ginevra Fabrizio is a PhD student at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Ginevra's research focuses mostly on Post-Quantum Cryptography, in particular on studying the impact of transitioning the current 'mainstream' Internet protocols to quantum-safe ones.
Ebrima Jaw, University of Twente
“Noisy Routers: Keep the Neighbourhood Quiet”
Plenary: Monday, May 18 at 16:00 ‐ 17:30 (UTC +0100)
Ebrima Jaw has been a PhD student in the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) at the University of Twente since 2022. He received his BSc in Information Systems from the University of Gambia and his MSc in Computer Science and Technology (Network and Information Security) in 2022 from Guizhou University, China. His current research interests include interdomain routing security, Internet measurement, and the scalability of Internet infrastructure.
Paweł Foremski, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics
“bgpipe: add ROA and ASPA validation to any router”
TBC
Paweł Foremski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences (see iitis.pl/en), and Senior Research Scientist at DomainTools, LLC (see domaintools.com). He is a passionate software engineer, data scientist, and academic researcher, working on improving the performance and security of the global Internet. His areas of interest include ML, BGP, DNS, IPv6, TLS, DDoS, and Flowspec.
Paweł has over 20 years of experience in open-source R&D on computer networks and Internet infrastructure, including C and Golang engineering of distributed systems. He holds a PhD in IP traffic classification using machine learning. Paweł has published papers in top journals and conferences, obtained US patents (e.g., Entropy/IP), and presented at ACM IMC, IETF, RIPE, PLNOG and others.
Petros Gigis, University College London
“Towards Trustworthy Ingress Monitoring in ISPs with OpenPenny”
Plenary: Tuesday, May 19 at 11:00 ‐ 12:30 (UTC +0100)
Petros Gigis (Gkigkis) is a network and systems engineer focusing on computer networks, Internet measurement, and routing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), where he developed systems to help Internet Service Providers (ISPs) detect and verify network incidents at ingress. He is the Principal Investigator of OpenPenny, an open-source project that helps ISPs identify non-spoofed traffic and validate ingress routing incidents.
Stephen McQuistin, University of St Andrews
“Two Decades of Internet Standards Development”
TBC
Stephen McQuistin is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research focuses on Internet standards, examining how they are developed, implemented, and deployed in practice. His work spans protocol design and analysis, web privacy and security mechanisms, and the organisational dynamics of Internet standards development.
Patrick Sattler, Technical University of Munich
“Lazy Eye Inspection: Capturing the State of Happy Eyeballs Implementations”
Plenary: Friday, May 22 at 09:30 ‐ 10:30 (UTC +0100)
Patrick Sattler focuses on Internet measurements and the analysis of large-scale Internet data, with particular interest in DNS, IPv6, and QUIC. His work aims to improve the understanding of Internet infrastructure, protocol behaviour, and operational trends.
As part of this work, he analysed iCloud Private Relay and developed the Happy Eyeballs webtester, a tool to measure Happy Eyeballs implementations.
He is currently a Guest Scientist at the Technical University of Munich and works at BENOCS, where he processes and analyses network data. He is in the final phase of his PhD at the Technical University of Munich.
Szu-Chun Huang, Delft University of Technology
“Trust but Verify: An Assessment of Vulnerability Tagging Services”
TBC
Szu-Chun has a background in Computer Science and began her PhD in Feb 2023. Her research focuses on scanning and benchmarking internet-wide vulnerabilities and aims to investigate the hidden factors influencing security patching behaviours.
Alexander Männel, TU Dresden
“Hilby - Hilbert Interactive Prefix Plots”
TBC
Alex is a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. He graduated with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from TU Dresden in 2021 and 2024 respectively. His research interests include Internet measurements and network security. He particularly focusses on network telescopes to better understand their limits and potential to reliably observe unsolicited Internet traffic.