Alexander Shraer

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email: shralex [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com

Information

As of October 2010 I am at Yahoo! Research.
In Yahoo! I've been working on a variety of distributed systems problems such as dynamic reconfiguration for Apache Zookeeper, publish subscribe, mobile middleware, and more.

I received my PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, under the supervision of Prof. Idit Keidar.
My research is broadly in the area of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms and systems.

My previous degrees are from the Computer Science Department, Technion, where I completed

M.Sc. in Computer Science (2006, cum laude) and B.Sc. in Software Engineering (2004, summa cum laude).

Recent professional activities

Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2012), Program committee
International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2012), Program committee (Peer-to-Peer, Self-Organizing and Autonomic Systems Track)
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2011), Program committee (Industry Track)
ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW 2011), Program committee
Hot Topics in System Dependability Workshop (HotDep 2011), Program committee

Recent interests

Large-scale and dynamic distributed systems

DynaStore: Dynamic Atomic Storage Without Consensus (J.ACM'11, PODC'09), with Microsoft Research Silicon Valley ppt

Reconfiguring Replicated Atomic Storage: A Tutorial (BEATCS, Oct. 2010), with Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Data-Centric Reconfiguration with Network-Attached Disks (LADIS'10), with Microsoft Research Silicon Valley pptx

Brahms: Byzantine Resilient Random Membership Sampling (PODC'08; COMNET 2009) ppt

Local Building Blocks for a Scalable Pub/Sub Infrastructure (Locality 2007), with IBM Research Haifa

Untrusted storage (with IBM Research Zurich)

Venus: Verification for Untrusted Cloud Storage (CCSW'10) pptx

FAUST: Fail-Aware Untrusted Storage (SICOMP'11, DSN'09) ppt

Trusting the Cloud (SIGACT News 2009)

Fault-tolerant replication and agreement in partially synchronous systems

How to choose a timing model? (DSN'07; IEEE TPDS 2008) ppt

GIRAF: a framework for evaluating the performance of distributed algorithms (PODC'06)

Full List of Publications

Patents

Publish-Subscribe Based Methods and Apparatuses for Associating Data Files - filed

Teaching

During Spring semesters (2007 till 2009) I was the TA in charge in the Principles of Reliable Distributed Systems course

In Winter semesters (2007 and 2008) I was the TA in charge in the Design and Analysis of Algorithms course

Before that I taught Introduction to C language

I also supervised several projects in the Software Systems Lab in the Electrical Engineering department

Previous work

Summer intern in Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Summer intern in the Information Security and Cryptography group, IBM - ZRL (Zurich Research Lab)
Intern in the Distributed Middleware group, IBM - HRL (Haifa Research Lab)
Software Eng. in the Formal Property Verification group, Intel Israel Development Center

Some Performed Projects

Other Stuff