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Researchers and Visitors

Principal Research Scientists

Alan J. DemersAlan J. Demers
Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 1975
Research focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms
Robbert van RenesseRobbert van Renesse
Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1989
Research focus: Scalable, adaptive, and secure group communication protocols

Research Associates

Theodoros DamoulasTheodoros Damoulas
Ph.D., Univ of Glasgow, 2009
Research focus: Statistical Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence

Postdoctoral Associates

Saeed AlaeiSaeed Alaei
Ph.D., Univ of Maryland, 2012
Research focus: Mechanism Design & Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization & Approximation Algorithms
Antonio BahamondeAntonio Bahamonde
Ph.D., Univ of Santiago de Compostela, 1982
Research focus: Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Feature Selection, Ordering
Su ChangSu Chang
Research focus: Design and analysis of energy and time efficient communication protocols, design and evaluation of distributed systems and communication networks, and complexity of combinatorial algorithms
Kai-Min ChungKai-Min Chung
Ph.D., Harvard Univ, 2010
Research focus: Cryptography, complexity theory, and pseudorandomness
Bistra DilkinaBistra Dilkina
Research focus: Computational Sustainability, Constraint reasoning and optimization, Scheduling, Hybrid search techniques, Game theory
Paul DuettingPaul Duetting
Research focus: Algorithmic mechanism design and algorithmic game theory
Ittay EyalIttay Eyal
Ph.D.
Research focus: Distributed systems and algorithms, specifically sensor networks, reliable aggregation of data in such networks, and distributed storage algorithms
Arjun GuhaArjun Guha
Ph.D., Brown Univ, 2012
Research focus: Programming languages and security
Thomas KesselheimThomas Kesselheim
Ph.D., RWTH Aachen Univ, 2009
Research focus: Approximation algorithms for spectrum allocation
Lucja KotLucja Kot
Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2009
Research focus: Databases, collaborative data management, and data integration
Jed LiuJed Liu
Ph.D., Cornell, 2012
Research focus: Distributed systems, security, and programming languages
Ketan MaheshwariKetan Maheshwari
Ph.D., University of Nice at Sophia Antipolis, 2011
Research focus: Workflow enactment on computational grids for data intensive applications.
Mohammad MahmoodyMohammad Mahmoody
Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 2010
Research focus: Theoretical Computer Science in general,
Vincent Rahli
Ph.D., Heriot-Watt University, 2011
Research focus: Type error slicing, semantics of expansion, reducibility proofs, and implicit complexity
Nicolas SchiperNicolas Schiper
Ph.D., University of Lugano, Switzerland, 2009
Research focus: Distributed systems, fault-tolerance, scalability
Robert SouleRobert Soule
Ph.D., NYU, 2012
Research focus: Distributed systems, and language support for building systems

Research Support Specialists

Visiting Professors, Fellows/Scientists

Marcelo FingerMarcelo Finger
Ph.D., Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1994
Research focus: Automated Deduction, Databases, Combinatorial Calculus, Combining Logic Systems, Temporal Logic and Computational Linguistics
Kun (Brooklyn) HeKun (Brooklyn) He
Research focus: Combinatorial optimization, algorithms for NP hard problems, and theory of computing
Friedrich Henglein
Ph.D., Rutgers Univ, 1989
Research focus: Algorithmic functional programming
Christoph KreitzChristoph Kreitz
Ph.D., Univ of Hagen, 1984
Research focus: Program synthesis, automated deduction, program verification, and formal logics
Katrina LigettKatrina Ligett
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ, 2009
Research focus: Algorithms, particularly online algorithms, algorithmic game theory, and data privacy
Fernando PedoneFernando Pedone
Ph.D., EPFL, 1999
Research focus: Theory and practice of dependable distributed systems and distributed data management systems
Adriano Veloso
Ph.D., UFMG, Brazil, 2009
Research focus: Machine learning, and large scale parallel and distributed data mining algorithms and applications
Benjamin YlvisakerBenjamin Ylvisaker
Ph.D., Univ of Washington, 2010
Research focus: Advanced static analyses for detecting concurrency bugs