Ivan Beschastnikh
Scholar

Ivan Beschastnikh

Google Scholar ID: iKnYSo8AAAAJ
University of British Columbia
Distributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringSystems
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,913
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
49
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
148
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-authored policy documents like 'Federated Data Access'; gave talks such as 'Compiling Distributed System Models Into Implementations with PGo' (AWS Automated Reasoning Group), 'Successfully Publishing your Research' (EuroSys Shadow PC meeting), etc.
Research Experience
  • Spent 2024-2025 as a Visiting Researcher with Uber’s Programming Systems Team, working on static analysis tools for ensuring reliability of microservice-based systems; Spent 2019-2020 as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, hosted by David S. Rosenblum and Abhik Roychoudhury, working on fuzzing and improving reliability of neural nets in deployment.
Education
  • Started at UBC in 2013; Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, advised by Tom Anderson, Michael Ernst, and Arvind Krishnamurthy; Undergraduate at the University of Chicago, introduced to research by Pete Beckman.
Background
  • Broad research interests in systems and software engineering, with current projects spanning distributed systems, formal methods, networks, privacy, and machine learning. Enjoys building and studying real software systems and tends to be empirical in his research.
Miscellany
  • Part of Systopia lab and SPL lab, among other groups across UBC; recent talks and interviews mentioned in the personal profile.