Kevin Vermeulen

Chargé de recherche

Kevin Vermeulen is a CNRS Chargé de Recherche researcher at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique. He is interested in building networked measurement systems to better understand and improve the Internet. In particular the systems and techniques that he develops are related to these different topics:

Network topology
Network performance
Network security
Traffic engineering

Before joining the LIX, Kevin was a Chargé de recherche at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France -- and before that, he was a postdoc at Columbia University working with professor Ethan Katz-Bassett. He obtained his doctorate in 2020 under the supervision of professor Timur Friedman at Sorbonne Université.

Kevin is 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.