Mr Ignacio Castro

Teaching

Cloud Computing (Postgraduate)

Cloud Computing has transformed how services and applications are delivered. Thanks to the rise of virtualisation technology and new programming paradigms, applications can quickly be delivered to a growing audience, without the need to physically own and configure the infrastructure. The Cloud Computing module will cover the main characteristics of Cloud Computing, including the enabling technologies, main software and service paradigms underpinning it, as well as related aspects, namely security, privacy, ethical concerns

Research

Research Interests:

Publications

• Agarwal V, Raman A, Sastry N et al. (publicationYear). Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-Based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31293

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Barnes MR, Karan M, McQuistin S et al. (2024). Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy.. arxiv

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31302

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/93941
• Trautwein D, Wei Y, Psaras Y et al. (2024). IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide. IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/infocom52122.2024.10621404

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gu Y, Castro I, Tyson G (2024). Detecting Multimodal Fake News with Gated Variational AutoEncoder. ACM Web Science Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3614419.3643992

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Healey PGT, Khare P, Castro I et al. (publicationYear). Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1266425

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/94939
• Wei Y, Trautwein D, Psaras Y et al. (2024). The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96227
• He J, Bin Zia H, Castro I et al. (2023). Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3618257.3624819

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96225
• Karan M, Khare P, Shekhar R et al. (2023). LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

  
  

  DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.378

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/91945
• Khare P, Shekhar R, Karan M et al. (2023). Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

  
  

  DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.8

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/94846
• McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P et al. (2023). Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards?. 2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)

  
  

  DOI: 10.23919/tma58422.2023.10198980

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Vallina P, Castro I, Tyson G (2023). Cashing in on Contacts: Characterizing the OnlyFans Ecosystem. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3543507.3583210

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Anaobi IH, Raman A, Castro I et al. (2023). Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse. WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3543507.3583487

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/84902
• Hosseini P, Hosseini M, Al-azzawi S et al. (2023). Lon-eå at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction. Proceedings of the The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

  
  

  DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.185

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/91939
• Iqbal W, Arshad MH, Tyson G et al. (2022). Exploring Crowdsourced Content Moderation Through Lens of Reddit during COVID-19. Proceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3570748.3570753

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Iqbal W, Tyson G, Ghafouri V et al. (2022). Exploring online manifestations of real-world inequalities. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3517745.3563027

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Trautwein D, Raman A, Tyson G et al. (2022). Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web. ACM SIGCOMM

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3544216.3544232

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/79960
• Trautwein D, Raman A, Tyson G et al. (2022). Design and evaluation of IPFS: a storage layer for the decentralized web. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3544216.3544232

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/81884
• Bin Zia H, Raman A, CASTRO I et al. (2022). Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. ACM SIGMETRICS

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3489048.3530968

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/78627
• Khare P, Karan M, McQuistin S et al. (2022). The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF. AAAI 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19310

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Bin Zia H, Raman A, Castro I et al. (2022). Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3530901

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/79860
• Zia HB, Castro I, Zubiaga A et al. (2022). Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Hate Speech Detection with Pseudo-Label Fine-Tuning of Transformer Language Models. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19402

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/82960
• Mazzola F, Marcos P, Castro I et al. (2022). On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98785-5_16

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/78621
• Gu Y, Castro I, Tyson G (2022). MMVAE at SemEval-2022 Task 5: A Multi-modal Multi-task VAE on Misogynous Meme Detection. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Hassan AI, Raman A, Castro I et al. (2021). The impact of Capitol Hill on Pleroma. Proceedings of the CoNEXT Student Workshop

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3488658.3493780

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Hassan AI, Raman A, Castro I et al. (2021). Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3485983.3494838

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/76120
• Javed RT, Usama M, Iqbal W et al. (2021). A deep dive into COVID-19-related messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s13278-021-00833-0

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/76055
• McQuistin S, Karan M, Khare P et al. (2021). Characterising the IETF through the lens of RFC deployment. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Internet Measurement Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3487552.3487821

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/76121
• Tajiki MM, Petroudi SHG, Salsano S et al. (2021). Optimal Estimation of Link Delays Based on End-to-End Active Measurements. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/tnsm.2021.3106109

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Zia HB, Castro I, Tyson G (2021). Racist or Sexist Meme? Classifying Memes beyond Hateful. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021)

  
  

  DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.woah-1.23

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Javed RT, Shuja ME, Usama M et al. (2020). A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/asonam49781.2020.9381360

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/78623
• Latif S, Usman M, Manzoor S et al. (2020). Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2020.3020521

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67218
• Hu Y, Wang H, He R et al. (2020). Mobile App Squatting. Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3366423.3380243

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/63220
• Böttger T, Cuadrado F, Antichi G et al. (2019). An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3355369.3355575

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59956
• Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Böttger T et al. (2019). Faster Control Plane Experimentation with Horse. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Conference Posters and Demos

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3342280.3342304

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Ibosiola D, Castro I, Stringhini G et al. (2019). Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3308558.3313438

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/56166
• Böttger T, Antichi G, Fernandes EL et al. (2018). Shaping the Internet: 10 Years of IXP Growth. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.10963

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/78399
• Bruyere M, Antichi G, Fernandes EL et al. (2018). Rethinking IXPs’ Architecture in the Age of SDN. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2871294

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/49409
• Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Castro I et al. (2018). An SDN-inspired Model for Faster Network Experimentation. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3200921.3200942

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/46049
• Böttger T, Cuadrado F, Tyson G et al. (2018). Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem Through the Lens of the Netflix CDN. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3211852.3211857

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/22457
• Bruyere M, Lapeyrade R, Fernandes EL et al. (2018). Umbrella. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3185467.3190790

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Antichi G, Castro I, Chiesa M et al. (2017). ENDEAVOUR: A Scalable SDN Architecture For Real-World IXPs.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2017.2760398

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/64058
• TYSON G, Huang S, Cuadrado F et al. (2017). Exploring HTTP Header Manipulation in the Wild. World Wide Web Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3038912.3052571

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/22154
• Dietzel C, Antichi G, Castro I et al. (2017). SDN-enabled Traffic Engineering and Advanced Blackholing at IXPs. Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3050220.3060601

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Chiesa M, Owezarski P, Uhlig S et al. (publicationYear). Inter-domain networking innovation on steroids: empowering ixps with SDN capabilities. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/mcom.2016.7588277

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/70108
• Fernandes EL, Antichi G, Castro I et al. (2016). Horse. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2934872.2959082

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Castro I, Gorinsky S (2016). Estimating the Real with the Virtual: How does the Accuracy Relate to the Internet Penetration?. 2016 8th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/comsnets.2016.7440009

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Castro I, Panda A, Raghavan B et al. (2015). Route bazaar: Automatic interdomain contract negotiation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

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• Castro I, Cardona JC, Gorinsky S et al. (2014). Remote Peering. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2674005.2675013

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/64890
• Castro I, Stanojevic R, Gorinsky S (2014). Using Tuangou to Reduce IP Transit Costs. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/tnet.2013.2278236

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Castro I, Gorinsky S (2012). T4P: Hybrid Interconnection for Cost Reduction. 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Workshops

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/infcomw.2012.6193485

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Stanojevic R, Castro I, Gorinsky S (2011). CIPT. Proceedings of the Seventh COnference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2079296.2079313

  
  

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