Marina Thottan

Marina Kuriakkose Thottan is a computer scientist specializing in the performance, management, and security of computer networks and smart grids. She is a principal research scientist at Amazon Web Services.

Education and career
Thottan has a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, completed in 2000. Her dissertation, Fault Detection and Prediction for the Management of Computer Networks, was supervised by Chuanyi Ji.

She became a researcher for Bell Labs in 1999, and became vice president of network and security research there before moving to her present position at Amazon.

Book
With Kenneth C. Budka and Jayant G. Deshpande, Thottan is coauthor of the book Communication Networks for Smart Grids: Making Smart Grid Real (Springer, 2014).

Recognition
Thottan is a Bell Labs Fellow. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2018 class of fellows, "for leadership in high-speed internet-protocol networks".