Speaker: Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Abstract: What makes bitcoin work? How do you build a highly-resilient infrastructure for the power-grid? How could a 43 seconds network partition have cascaded into an over a day of service unavailability for github?
In this talk, I will describe several fundamental concepts from distributed systems and show their applications to blockchains, resilient infrastructure, and cloud services. I will highlight the main challenges when building such systems and describe several ongoing research projects in my group.
Bio: Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a Professor of Computer Science in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern she was a faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University from 2003 to 2015. Her research lies at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and computer networks. The overarching goal of her work is designing and building secure and resilient distributed systems and network protocols, with assurance that their deployed implementations provide their security, resilience, and performance goals. Her work received several best paper awards in IEEE SafeThings 2019, NDSS 2018, ISSRE 2017, DSN 2015 as well as two IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize in 2018 and 2016 for her work on QUIC. Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2006.
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