Chin Guok

CTO at ESnet

Chin Guok is the Planning and Architecture Group Lead for ESnet, DOE’s high performance network user facility. He has been involved in network engineering at ESnet for over 20 years, architecting specialized overlay services within the ESnet production backbone, prototyping SDN production solutions, and facilitating design and architecture work. Currently, he serves as the lead architect for ESnet’s next generation network (ESnet6) due to come online in 2022.

His research interests include high-performance networking and network protocols; dynamic network resource provisioning; network tuning issues; hybrid network traffic engineering. Guok received a M.S. in Computer Science, from the University of Arizona in 1997 and a B.S. Computer Science, University of Pacific in 1991.

Timeline

  • CTO

    Current role