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Distributed Systems

Distributed systems are collections of independent computers that look like a single coherent systems to users. These computers share resources, data, and tasks to achieve a common goal. 

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SCI Students, Alumni, & Professor Receive Awards at SRDS 2024 for Paper on Compound Threats

Amy Babay, an assistant professor in the departments of Informatics & Networked Systems and Computer Science, along with PhD student Huzaifah Nadeem, Maher Khan (SCI ’24G), and Benjamin Gilby (SCI ’23), received the Best Paper Award at the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS).

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Amy Babay, Assistant Professor

Dr. Babay's general research interests are in distributed systems and networking, with particular interests in building dependable critical infrastructure systems and enabling new internet services with demanding performance requirements. 

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Panos Chrysanthis, Professor

Dr. Chrysanthis' research interests lie within the areas of mobile and pervasive data management, database systems, operating systems and real-time systems.

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Nicholas Farnan, Teaching Associate Professor

Dr. Farnan has taught courses on algorithms and data structures, as well as programming languages for web applications.

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James Joshi, Professor

Dr. Joshi's research interest is broadly in the areas of Cybersecurity and Privacy, with primary focus on advanced access control, distributed systems security and privacy, trust, and privacy in AI/ML areas.

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John (Jack) Lange, Associate Professor

Dr. Lange's research specializes in High Performance Computing and Operating Systems, as well as networking, virtualization and distributed systems.

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Adam Lee, Professor

Dr. Lee's research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields.

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Stephen Lee, Assistant Professor

Dr. Lee's research interests lie broadly in the area of distributed systems and cyber-physical systems (CPS), with an emphasis on sustainability.

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Balaji Palanisamy, Associate Professor

Dr. Palanisamy's research broadly spans the areas of distributed systems and data privacy. 

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Vladimir Zadorozhny, Professor

Dr. Zadorozhny's research interests include information integration and data fusion for notable event detection, complex adaptive systems, wireless and sensor data management, query optimization in distributed environments. 

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