{"id":243,"date":"2019-06-13T18:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:26:59","slug":"alireza-farshins-licentiate-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/2019\/06\/alireza-farshins-licentiate-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Farshin&#8217;s Licentiate Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><p>We are happy to announce that Alireza Farshin successfully defended his licentiate thesis (licentiate is a degree at KTH half-way to a PhD)! We are once again very grateful to Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. for a fantastic co-advising job. Prof. Babak Falsafi was a superb opponent at the licentiate seminar. Alireza&#8217;s thesis is available online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kth.diva-portal.org\/smash\/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1305108&amp;dswid=-1210\">Realizing Low-Latency Internet Services via Low-Level Optimization of NFV Service Chains: Every nanosecond counts!<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6309p-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6309p-small.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6309p-small-625x417.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6309p-small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6309p-small-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dejan handing Alireza the traditional licentiate degree gift at KTH (image credit: Marco Chiesa).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_6314p-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alireza Farshin (front, right) with his doctoral advisors (behind, left: Dejan Kostic, behind, right: Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr.). Front left is Prof. Babak Falsafi, the opponent at the licentiate seminar (image credit: Marco Chiesa).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Alireza Farshin successfully defended his licentiate thesis (licentiate is a degree at KTH half-way to a PhD)! We are once again very grateful to Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. for a fantastic co-advising job. Prof. Babak Falsafi was a superb opponent at the licentiate seminar. Alireza&#8217;s thesis is available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8flZy-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/tcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}