In the early 2000s, Rodriguez worked as a software architect for
Silicon Valley companies such as search engine
Inktomi, and network equipment company Tahoe Networks. In 2002, Rodriguez returned to AT&T to work at
Bell Labs, where he researched many of the early concepts of
peer-to-peer networks and
mobile computing. Following this, Rodriguez returned to England to begin working at
Microsoft Research Cambridge in their systems and networking research group. In addition to Avalanche, Rodriguez researched content distribution, wireless systems, and complex networks, while conducting studies assessing
Windows Update,
FolderShare and
Xbox Live. (center) with the Bullipedia team, including chef
Ferran Adrià (bottom left) and Rodriguez (bottom right). In November 2006, Rodriguez left the Avalanche project at Microsoft to work at
Telefónica Catalunya in Barcelona, a center separate from Telefónica's main Madrid offices that was created in March 2006. There, he worked as the head of Telefónica's Barcelona research and development team, leading research on highly
scalable distributed systems, next generation social networks and advanced wireless systems. Initially employed as the Internet scientific director, focusing on
big data concepts, until Telefónica Digital was merged into the company's Global Corporate Centre. Rodriguez has been collaborating with chef
Ferran Adrià of the former
Michelin 3-star restaurant
elBulli to develop Bullipedia: a
Wiki format culinary repository of information about Spanish cuisine, which was first announced in early 2012. In 2014, Rodriguez collaborated with football team
FC Barcelona to develop new strategies for football, by analyzing the team using
network theory techniques. Rodriguez is a member of several advisory boards for companies and associations, including the scientific journal
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the
IMDEA Networks Institute since 2010, and the art and science exhibition centre
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in
Gijón since 2013, and serves as a trustee board member of the
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies since 2014.
University and educating In the mid-2000s, Rodriguez collaborated on research papers dealing mainly with peer-to-peer content distribution. Two of these were highly influential in computer science:
Network coding for large scale content distribution (2005) and
Should internet service providers fear peer-assisted content distribution? (2005), which became highly cited papers for researchers.
Network coding for large scale content distribution, as well as a paper analyzing YouTube networks, ''I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system'' (2007), have been cited by thousands of papers and studies. In 2010 he joined the computer science department of
Columbia University as an adjunct professor, where he taught about social networks and next generation system architectures. He held this position until 2012. Rodriguez has spoken at
TEDx Barcelona in 2011 and 2014, discussing distributed programming and later
net neutrality. At the 2013 Internet Measurement Conference, Rodriguez delivered the keynote speech, while receiving an award for a paper he collaborated on, entitled
Follow the Money: Understanding Economics of Online Aggregation and Advertising. In 2013 he was a part of a panel on Re-architecting the Internet for the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' conference Infocom 2013, and in 2014 attended the
Wired Conference as a guest speaker, discussing his research on FC Barcelona's strategies. ==Awards and honors==