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I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Concordia University, where I lead the Distributed Computing and Systems (DISCOS) Research Group.​

 

My research focuses on advancing the development of high-performance, highly scalable, and highly available distributed systems, powering a wide range of applications including AI systems, Blockchain, Cloud computing, and DBMS. See the ABCD of our research. ​​

 

Prior to joining Concordia, I received my PhD from the University of Toronto in 2024.​​ My full CV is available here. I have served on the program committees of various international conferences, including DASFAA, ACM SYSTOR, ACM Middleware, IEEE ICDE, ICDCS, and VLDB. I actively collaborate with both academia and industry.

Recent News

I am recruiting Master's and PhD students working on distributed systems, with a focus on the intersection of blockchains, machine learning, cloud computing, and data management. If you're interested, please read this page.

  • [Jan, 26] I will be serving as a PC member at ICDCS'26

  • [Jun, 25] I will be serving as a PC member and Local Organization Chair at ICDE'26

  • [May, 25] I received the Best PC Award at ICDE'25

  • [Apr, 25] I will be serving as a PC member at VLDB'26

  • [Feb, 25] Our BFT survey paper is being used by Hyperledger Fabric to introduce Byzantine Fault-Tolerant systems!

  • [Feb, 25] I will be serving as a PC member and publicity chair at DAPPS'25

  • [Feb, 25] I will be serving as a PC member at SYSTOR'25

  • [Jan, 25] Cabinet, dynamically weighted consensus made fast, is accepted by VLDB'25

  • [Nov, 24] I will be serving as a PC member at Middleware'25

  • [Oct, 24] Janus, making CRDTs not so eventual, is accepted by VLDB'25

  • [Aug, 24] I will be serving as a PC member at ICDE'25

  • [Dec, 24] PrestigeBFT, a novel reputation-based BFT consensus algorithm, is accepted by ICDE'24

  • [Oct, 23] Drone, a resource orchestration framework for containerized clouds, is accepted by SoCC'23

Review and Service

Conferences:

  • Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)

    • Program Committee Member (2026)

  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

    • Local Organization Chair (2026)

    • Program Committee Member (2025, 2026)

    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

    • Program Committee Member (2026)

    ​ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware)

    • ​Program Committee Member (2025, 2026)

  • ​ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR)

    • Program Committee Member (2025)

  • ​IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS)

    • General Chair (2026)

    • Publicity Chair (2025)

    • Program Committee Member (2024, 2025, 2026)

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Journals:

I was an invited reviewer for the following journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS)

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS)

  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM)

  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

DISCOS​

Research Group of Distributed Computing and Systems

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