News
9. Aug 2021
This has been a banner year for our group at SOSP: we contributed to three papers! It looks like we really earned all that ice cream…
Florian joined forces with Matt and Yunhao (not to mention Lorenzo and Natacha, now at Berkeley) to produce ‘Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions)’;
Sowmya and Matt were first joint authors in a collaboration with researchers at MSR that produced ‘PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems’;
and Matt (he again!) co-authored ‘Regular Sequential Serializability and Regular Sequential Consistency’ with friends at Princeton.
14. May 2021
Nothing like a ridiculous amount of Cornell ice cream after an SOSP push. And it is nice to finally be together! 
27. April 2021
Natacha wins honorable mention for the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation ‘A Client-Centric Approach to Transactional Datastores’ . We now want Natacha to win an Oscar–we won’t settle for anything less.
22. April 2021
Yunhao receives the 2021 Facebook fellowship! This year, 26 are selected from 2,163 world-wide candidates according to the announcement.
9. November 2020
Cong successfully defends his dissertation ‘Building a Scalable Shared Log’. Here is Cong writing his name on the SysLab Wall of Fame with Robbert and Lorenzo trying to get some air time too 
and here is Dr. Ding after doing the deed 
Congratulations!
5. November 2020
Natacha wins the SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation ‘A Client-Centric Approach to Transactional Datastores’ . Awesome, Natacha!
4. November 2020
Yunhao and Lorenzo win the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI for their paper ‘Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy’, joint work with colleguaes at MSR . Here is Yunhao giving the talk at OSDI: 
28. May 2020
Sowmya, Florian and Yunhao win the CS department distinguished TA award for their contributions while TAing CS4410, our undergraduate OS class.
25. February 2020
Cong presents Scalog at NSDI Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration and Total Order in a Scalable Shared Log
15. December 2019
Natacha successfully defends her dissertation. She will be an assistant professor at UC Berkeley starting at 2020 Fall. Congratulations Natacha!
10. September 2019
Youer receives another one year fellowship from IC3 for her work on unveiling the deep connections between Nakamoto’s consensus and traditonal distributed consensus protocols.
6. January 2019
Some things never change. Here is Maffeo Barberini, future Pope Urban VIII, defending his Ph.D. in Pisa. Now, look at the guy on the right, falling asleep… (picture and remark courtesy of Ed Wong, with co-credit to the Vatican Museums) 
10. October 2018
Natacha presents at OSDI Obladi: Oblivious Serializable Transactions in the Cloud.
28. September 2018
Chunzhi successfully defends his dissertation ‘Bringing Modular Concurrency Control to the Next Level’ at UT Austin. Congratulations Chunzhi! 
5. September 2018
Youer receives a one year fellowship from IC3 for her work on unveiling the deep connections between Nakamoto’s consensus and traditonal distributed consensus protocols.
14-17. August 2018
Lorenzo lectures at SATIS ‘18: The 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems in Tromsø, Norway.
7-12. August 2018
Lorenzo lectures and Natacha is a panelist at The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School in Saarbruecken, Germany. The full Cornell contingent: Drew, Lorenzo, Nate, Tony, Natacha, and Sammy. 