Distributed Systems Laboratory at UPenn

Excited that "Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex Proofs" was accepted at @USENIXSecurity. This is work with my students @elefthei, Eli Margolin, and Jess Woods; and with @srinathtv. Preprint: eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886. Code at: github.com/eniac/Reef. 1/7

It was a great pleasure to have @boonthauloo visit us at UCI CS today!!

Penn Engineering is seeking an experienced entrepreneur and innovator to join our faculty as a Practice Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The candidate will join our successful Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship program. Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/133492

First DSL meeting this Fall, welcoming new faculty Ryan Marcus and Pratyush Misra!

So excited for my PhD students Yiping Ma and Jess Woods. Our paper "Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning" was accepted at @IEEESSP 2023! This was a collaboration with Antigoni Polychroniadou and Tal Rabin. 1/2.

I am on the academic job market this year! My research mainly lies at the intersection of data management and distributed systems. Please reach out if you are hiring! Job materials and other information: seas.upenn.edu/~mjamiri

@CIS_Penn is hiring faculty in computer systems and security!

Congratulations to Penn students on receiving a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, including Penn DSL's Yiping Ma!

Delighted to announce @CIS_Penn is recruiting new faculty (tenured, tenure-track, teaching-track). Join our vibrant, collegial, growing department (10 new hires arriving 7/2022 thru 7/2023). cis.upenn.edu/open-faculty-p… and highlights.cis.upenn.edu

(1/5) Tomorrow, I’ll present Qanaat at @VLDBconf. It is joint work with @boonthauloo , @amrelabbadi , and @divyagrawal. Qanaat is a permissioned blockchain system that supports scalability and confidentiality in multi-enterprise environments. vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p2…

Welcoming all our @penndsl doctoral students back!! With @Lee_BenjaminC and @zgives

Big congrats to my students Ke, Yiping, and Yifeng. We just had 2 papers on improving the privacy and accountability of the online advertising ecosystem accepted this week! 1/4

After several wonderful years in the States, I will join the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science in Fall 2023. I am extremely excited about this new chapter of my life and looking forward to working with UofT colleagues and students!

Congrats @qizhen_penn co-winner of Rubinoff award (with Yinjun Wu) for most outstanding computer science dissertation work and Edo Roth (honorable mention) at @PennEngineers Ph.D. awards ceremony.

Earlier this year, Qizhen's work on MimicNet (github.com/eniac/MimicNet with Kelvin Ng and Vincent Liu) was accepted at #SIGCOMM '21. Qizhen will be on the job market this year. Check out more details of his research at cis.upenn.edu/~qizhen/

More congrats to Qizhen for his another paper "Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache" accepted at #VLDB '22!

Congrats to DSL's Qizhen Zhang, Vincent Liu, Boon Thau Loo, and their MSR collaborators for their paper "CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs" accepted at #CIDR '22!

Congratulations to my students Yiping Ma and Ke Zhong on our paper "Incremental Offline/Online PIR", which will appear at @USENIXSecurity '22. This was a collaboration with our colleague Tal Rabin. 1/3

Last but not least: Congrats to Penn DSL's Hoaxian Chen and his MSR collaborators for his paper "Bridging the Gap Between AutoML Systems and Network Operators", also accepted at #HotNets '21!

Congrats to Nofel Yaseen, Vincent Liu, and their MSR collaborators for their paper "The Datacenter as a Collection of Digital Signals", which was accepted at #HotNets '21!