- Principal Research Scientists
- Research Associates
- Postdoctoral Associates
- Research Support Specialists
- Visiting Professors, Fellows/Scientists
Principal Research Scientists
Alan J. Demers
Principal Research Scientist
Ph.D., Princeton Univ, 1975
Research focus: Database systems, database replication, and algorithms
Robbert van Renesse
Principal Research Scientist
Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1989
Research focus: Scalable, adaptive, and secure group communication protocols
Research Associates
Lucja Kot
Research Associate
Ph.D., Cornell Univ, 2009
Research focus: Databases, collaborative data management, and data integration
Vincent Rahli
Research Associate
Ph.D., Heriot-Watt University, 2011
Research focus: Type error slicing, semantics of expansion, reducibility proofs, and implicit complexity
Postdoctoral Associates
Saeed Alaei
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., Univ of Maryland, 2012
Research focus: Mechanism Design & Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization & Approximation Algorithms
Paul Duetting
Postdoctoral Associate
Research focus: Algorithmic mechanism design and algorithmic game theory
Ittay Eyal
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D.
Research focus: Distributed systems and algorithms, specifically sensor networks, reliable aggregation of data in such networks, and distributed storage algorithms
Thomas Kesselheim
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., RWTH Aachen Univ, 2009
Research focus: Approximation algorithms for spectrum allocation
Jed Liu
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., Cornell, 2012
Research focus: Distributed systems, security, and programming languages
Emerson Melo
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., Universidad de Chile, 2013
Research focus: Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, empirical I.O., and Econometric Theory.
Nicolas Schiper
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., University of Lugano, Switzerland, 2009
Research focus: Distributed systems, fault-tolerance, scalability
Robert Soule
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., NYU, 2012
Research focus: Distributed systems, and language support for building systems
Visiting Professors, Fellows/Scientists
Antonio Bahamonde
Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Univ of Santiago de Compostela, 1982
Research focus: Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Feature Selection, Ordering
Kun (Brooklyn) He
Visiting Professor
Research focus: Combinatorial optimization, algorithms for NP hard problems, and theory of computing
Klara Kedem
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1988
Research focus: Historical document analysis, image processing, pattern matching
Christoph Kreitz
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Univ of Hagen, 1984
Research focus: Program synthesis, automated deduction, program verification, and formal logics
Fernando Pedone
Visiting Professor
Ph.D., EPFL, 1999
Research focus: Theory and practice of dependable distributed systems and distributed data management systems
Dov Samet
Visiting Professor
Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981
Research focus: Game theory, the logic of interactive epistemology
Stuart Staniford
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1993
Research focus: Intrusion detection, internet-scale security issues, computer worms and botnets, societal vulnerability
Rui Wang
Visiting Associate Professor
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, 2007
Research focus: Computer graphics, real-time rendering, realistic rendering, parallel graphics algorithms, 3D display techniques.