Keynotes

Venue / Date Presentation title Recording link / Other notes
[Mid-chain 2026], conference keynote speaker (deferred due to the war)  
[Frontiers Forum by SpaceComputer, DevConnect ‘25], conference keynote speaker From HotStuff to Space. [{recording 🎥}]
[Middleware 2025], conference keynote speaker From Libra to Space.  
[CMU CyLab distinguished seminar], 2025 invited speaker Research Advances in Scaling Byzantine Consensus.  
[BASS’25] (workshop of [SBC 2025]), invited speaker SpaceComputer: Building Orbital Root of Trust with State-of-Art Technology. [{recording 🎥}] [{blogpost}]
[Sky Seminar Series, UC Berkeley] 2025, invited speaker Research Advances in Scaling BFT Consensus. (canceled due to accident injury)
[ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2024)], conference keynote speaker Research Advances in Scaling BFT Consensus.  
[Financial Crypto 2024], conference keynote speaker Research Advances in Scaling BFT Consensus.  
[SmartCon23], invited speaker Recent Advances in Consensus Research from Chainlink Labs. [{recording 🎥}]
[NorCalDB Day 2023], invited speaker Unexpected Lessons from Production Systems Impacting the Foundations of Distributed Computing.  
[Duke dept. colloquium, 2023], invited speaker Tech Transfer Stories and Takeaways.  
[Brown dept. colloquium, 2023], invited speaker Tech Transfer Stories and Takeaways.  
[SmartCon23] Recent Advances in Consensus Research from Chainlink Labs. [{recording 🎥}]
[Science and Engineering of Consensus 2022], invited speaker Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Protection on a DAG [{recording 🎥}]
[Fino]
[SmartCon22] Privacy-Preserving Oracles with DECO [{recording 🎥}]
[Rise Lab seminar, Berkeley, 2022], invited speaker Connecting Blockchains and the World.  
[ICL seminar, 2022], invited speaker Connecting Blockchains and the World.  
[ICDCS 2021], conference keynote speaker Tech Transfer Stories and Takeaways.  
[Cornell dept. colloquium, 2021] , invited speaker Tech Transfer Stories and Takeaways.  
[DISC 2021] , conference keynote speaker Tech Transfer Stories and Takeaways. [{recording 🎥}]
[ACM AFT’20], conference keynote speaker
[DSN’20], conference keynote speaker
[FAB’20], invited speaker
[UC Davis 2020], invited speaker
[CMU 2020], invited speaker
[UZH Blockchain Center Summer School 2020], invited speaker
[TPBC’20], invited speaker
[ITA 2020], invited speaker
Diem (formerly Libra) Technology: Various presentations. [{recording 🎥}]
[{recording 🎥}]
[Usenix ATC ‘18], conference keynote speaker
[Northeastern, distinguished lecture series, 2019], invited speaker
[JHU, distinguished lecture series, 2018], invited speaker
[Swiss Blockchain Winter School 2019], invited speaker
[BITCOIN ‘18], invited speaker
[Tsinghua-Cornell Blockchain Winter School (TCWSC) 2017] , invited speaker
The Road to HotStuff: Various Presentations and Posts [Blockchain/BFT]
[The BFT Lens: HotStuff and Casper]
[The BFT Lens: Tendermint]
, [BEATCS fall 2017 tutorial]
 [HotStuff-PODC2019]

Pre 2019

Talk title & Abstract Where & Recording  
Flexible BFT and New Approaches in Byzantine Fault Tolerance [Chicago Booth 2019], [Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture 2019], [CES 2019], [BC ‘19], [Tokenomics 2019], [SHE256 Conference 2019]  [{recording 🎥}]](https://youtu.be/4np_2K8WNPU?t=4297) ;
BFT Reconfiguration [Swiss Blockchain Summer School 2017] ;  
Beyond Paxos [BIRS 2016] [{recording 🎥}] ;
Randomized Gossip Methods: From Grapevine to SWIM [PWL Conference 2016]
[{recording 🎥}]](https://youtu.be/Gxf5glthqrk?list=PLGRqfvsPiRShwIXMA5P3WR_9LgBOAdvw4)
 
Foundations of Reliable Distributed Systems in Practice [Women in Theory 2016] ;  
CorfuDB: Transactional Data Services over a Shared Log [Princeton 2014] ;  
What happens when distributed systems go elastic? [SSS  ‘12, keynote] ;  
CORFU: Going Beyond Paxos [DISC 2011, keynote] ;  
CORFU: Transactional Storage at the Speed of Flash [LADIS ‘2011] ;  
Backend Consistency for Large-Scale Live Services [IPTPS ‘10] ;  
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Distributed Systems [TADDS 2010] ;  
Virtually Synchronous Paxos [A 30-Year Perspective on Replication] ;  
FairPlay - A Secure Two-Party Computation System [SMP 2004] ;  
Locality Aware network Solutions [WDAS 2004] ;  
From Byzantine Agreement to Practical Survivability [RCDS 2002] ;