Group Members

Members

Lorenzo Alvisi

Professor
email: lorenzo (at) cs (dot) cornell (dot) edu

  • I love Italian motorcycles, dark chocolate, and classical music.
  • I am interested in the theory and practice of dependable Distributed Computing.

Syed Akbar Mehdi

Ph.D. Student
email: samehdi (at) cs (dot) utexas (dot) edu

  • I like centipedes!
  • I work on scalable consistency guarantees for distributed and multicore databases.

Youer Pu

Ph.D. Student
email: youerpu (at) cs (dot) cornell (dot) edu

  • I like baby crocodiles!
  • I do research in Blockchain protocol theory.

Matt Burke

Ph.D. Student
email: matthelb [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu

  • I like Joshua trees!
  • I do research in distributed concurrency control.

Yunhao Zhang

Ph.D. Student
email: yz2327 [at] cornell [dot] edu

  • I like eating Baozi!
  • I do research in BFT consensus.

Florian Suri-Payer

Ph.D. Student
email: fsp [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu

  • I like playing tennis!
  • I do research in BFT databases.

Sowmya Dharanipragada

Ph.D. Student
email: sjd266 [at] cornell [dot] edu

  • I like spicy food and get distracted by puppies.
  • I do research in encrypted databases.

Alumni

Cong Ding


Dissertation: Building a Scalable Shared Log
Now: Confluent

Natacha Crooks


Dissertation: A client-centric approach to transactional datastores
Now: UC Berkeley

Chunzhi Su, Ph.D. 2018


Dissertation: Bringing Modular Concurrency Control to the Next Level, UT Austin
Now: Google

Trinabh Gupta, Ph.D. 2017


Dissertation: Toward practical and private online services, UT Austin
Now: Assistant Processor, UC Santa Barbara

Chao Xie, Ph.D. 2016


Dissertation: High Performance Transactional Storage, UT Austin
Now: Google

Manos Kapritsos, Ph.D. 2014


Dissertation: Replicating Multithreaded Services, UT Austin
Now: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Yang Wang, Ph.D. 2014


Dissertation: Separating Data from Metadata for Robustness and Scalability, UT Austin
Now: Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Edmund Wong, Ph.D. 2013


Dissertation: Raising the BAR in Dependable Cooperative Services, UT Austin
Now: Cisco Meraki

Allen Clement, Ph.D. 2010


Dissertation: UpRight Fault Tolerance, UT Austin
Now: Google

Harry C. Li, Ph.D. 2009


Dissertation: Robust Peer-to-Peer Systems, UT Austin
Now: Independent Consultant

Jeff Napper, Ph.D. 2008


Dissertation: Robust Multithreaded Applications, UT Austin
Now: Cisco

Jean-Philippe Martin, Ph.D. 2006


Dissertation: Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Beyond, UT Austin
Now: Google

Jian Yin, Ph.D. 2003


Dissertation: Volume Leases - A Scalable Cache-Consistency Framework, UT Austin
Now: Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

Evelyn Tumlin Pierce, 2000


Dissertation: Self-Adjusting Quorum Systems for Byzantine Fault Tolerance, UT Austin
Now:

Sriram Rao, Ph.D. 1999


Dissertation: Egida - A Toolkit for Low-Overhead Fault Tolerance, UT Austin
Now: Facebook