Lorenzo Alvisi
Professor Emeritus
Lorenzo Alvisi, an Italian computer scientist, is currently a Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. Previously, he was a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the holder of the Endowed Professorship #5 at University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery.
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
- Theory and practice of dependable Distributed Computing
Research Labs & Affiliations:
Theory meets Practice @ Cornell University
Select Publications
. 8-10 October 208. Obladi: Oblivious Serializable Transactions in the Cloud.. roceedings of the 2018 USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Carlsbad, CA.
. 4 December 2017. Revisiting fast practical byzantine fault tolerance. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01367.
. 21-25 August 2017. Pretzel: Email Encryption and Provider-Supplied Functions are Compatible. . Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCOMM Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
. 25 July 2017. Seeing is believing: A client-centric specification of database isolation. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing.73-82.
. 9 May 2017. Bringing modular concurrency control to the next level. ACM.283-297.
Awards & Honors
- 2017 - Tisch University Professorship in Computer Science, Cornell University
- 2014, 2016, 2017 - Google Research Award
- 2016 - IEEE Fellow
- 2016 - UT Austin University Distinguished Teaching Professor
- 2012-2015 - Visiting Chair Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2014 - UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award
- 2014 - Endowed Professorship No. 5 in Computer Science, UT Austin
- 2012 - Humboldt Research Award
- 2010 - ACM Fellow
- 2010 - UT Austin Outstanding Graduate Adviser Award
Contact Info
Lorenzo Alvisi
Professor Emeritus in Computer Sciences #5, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
(607) 255-4289
413A Gates Hall (Cornell University)