Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSoftware Engineering and Programming Languages,Computer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems
Keywordsdistributed systems, fault-tolerant systems

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAustin
InstitutionUniversity of Texas at Austin
InstituteComputer Science Department
Homepagehttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lorenzo

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter DruschelMax-Planck-Institut für Softwaresysteme, Saarbrücken
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2013

Programme(s)

2012Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Alvisi is an international authority in the field of dependable distributed computing. His work has provided the first specification of message logging, has brought Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) to the cusp of industrial adoption and has shown how to bring together BFT and game theory to build dependable peer-to-peer systems. While in Germany, Professor Alvisi focuses on state-machine replication for multi-core servers as well as on systems that are robust to collusion.

Publications (partial selection)

2014 L. Alvisi, A. Clement, A. Epasto, S. Lattanzi, and A. Panconesi: Communities, Random Walks, and Social Sybil Defense. In: Internet Mathematics, 2014, 360-420
2013L. Alvisi, A. Clement, A. Epasto, S. Lattanzi, and A. Panconesi: SoK: The Evolution of Sybil Defense via Social Networks . In: Wenke Lee, Michael Backes, Adrian Perrig, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2013). IEEE Computer Society, 2013. 382-396