Published multiple papers including methods for constructing Byzantine state-machine replication and blockchain at DISC'22, fast data replication techniques in RDMA clusters accepted to ICPP'22, and the full version of the DISC'18 Best Paper Award winner 'Multi-Shot Distributed Transaction Commit' published in Springer Distributed Computing. Received the ACM DEBS Most Influential Paper Award in 2019. Involved in several projects supported by IBM Shared University Research Award, Coleman-Cohen Exchange Programme Grant, Royal Society International Exchanges Grant, and Facebook Faculty Award.
Research Experience
Currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, also Joint Head of the Distributed and Networked Systems (DANS) group. Previously, he was a Professor and Head of the Centre for Distributed and Global Computing at Royal Holloway, University of London (2012-2019), a Research Staff Member at IBM Research (2005-2012), and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT's CSAIL (2003-2005).
Education
Obtained PhD, MSc, and BSc degrees in Computer Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003, 1998, and 1993 respectively.
Background
Research interests broadly span the area of distributed computing and systems, with a current focus on scalability and robustness in modern large-scale computing and storage infrastructures such as blockchains, cloud services, large-scale data centers, IoT platforms, and multi-core architectures.
Miscellany
Actively collaborates with numerous academic institutions and industrial partners worldwide, including IMDEA Software Institute, Technion, Tel-Aviv University, Emory University, Cornell, KTH, and IBM Research.