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) |
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| 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] ; |