About
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town specializing in Internet measurement and network optimization. My research focuses on building large-scale measurement systems to analyze Internet infrastructure, with expertise in BGP routing analysis, CDN locality measurement, and IP geolocation. I develop data-driven models using machine learning and causal inference to optimize peering decisions and improve network interconnection strategies.
Currently finalizing my PhD thesis. I also teach undergraduate courses in Network Engineering and Computer Networks at the University of Malawi.
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Updates
- 11 February 2025 - Became an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellow working on measuring the locality of Internet content worldwide
- 10 October 2024 - Paper on Balancing Interests: A Policy-Based Approach to Internet Peer Selection accepted at IEEE CloudNet-GI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 8 August 2024 - Paper on Name2Cat: A Lightweight Autonomous Systems Classifier Using Organization Names accepted at SATNAC, Kruger National Park, South Africa
- 2 August 2024 - Poster on A Dataset on Peering Policies of Autonomous Systems accepted at ACM IMC, Madrid, Spain
Recent Publications
2024
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Balancing Interests: A Policy-Based Approach to Internet Peer Selection
Martin Thodi, Amreesh Phokeer, and Josiah Chavula
2024 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Poster: A Dataset on Peering Policies of Autonomous Systems
Martin Thodi, Josiah Chavula, and Amreesh Phokeer
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2024, Madrid, Spain
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Name2Cat: A Lightweight Autonomous Systems Classifier Using Organization Names
Martin Thodi, Josiah Chavula, and Amreesh Phokeer
Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2024, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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Contact
Email: martthodi238 AT gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/mthodi
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