Suyash Gupta | University of California, Berkeley

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at SkyLab, University of California, Berkeley. I am working with Dr. Natacha Crooks on designing efficient fault-tolerant systems with a key focus on handling malicious attacks.

Previously, I was awarded Ph.D. degree at Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis. I also serve as the Lead Architect for ResilientDB, which I founded during my Ph.D at UC Davis.

I was awarded Best Graduate Researcher Award by UC Davis for my thesis, titled, Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics. During my Ph.D. I also authored a book titled, Fault-Tolerant Distributed Transactions on Blockchain, which was published by Morgan & Claypool as part of Synthesis Lectures on Data Management (also available now with Springer).

I started my PhD at Purdue University in August 2015 and transferred to University of California Davis in January 2018. At UC Davis, I was advised by Dr. Mohammad Sadoghi.

Prior to moving to UC Davis, I earned couple of master degrees. I was awarded Master of Science in Computer Science by Department of Computer Science at Purdue University in December 2017. During my time at Purdue, I also worked with Prof. Suresh Jagannathan in the domain of Distributed Systems and Programming Languages, and was associated with the PurPL and SIAM.

In more distant past, I worked with Dr. V. Krishna Nandivada at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. At IIT Madras, I was awarded Master of Science (Research) from the Department of CSE. My masters thesis led to several publications and was titled as Analyzing Recursive Task Parallel Programs..

Research Interests

Distributed System: blockchain, consensus, fault-tolerance
Databases: agreement protocols, concurrency control, severless-edge

News

[Jul. 2023] Teaching 3-month long “Introduction to Database” course in collaboration with Mentors without Borders.
[Mar. 2023] Our paper “Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust” received Best Paper Award at EuroSys 2023.
[Mar. 2023] Our paper “Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust” accepted at EuroSys 2023.
[Jan. 2023] Gave a talk on “Chemistry behind Agreement” at CIDR 2023.
[Nov. 2022] Our paper “Chemistry behind Agreement” is accepted at CIDR 2023.
[Nov. 2022] Gave a talk on “In Trusted Components we Trust” at ConsensusDay 2022.
[Oct. 2022] Gave a talk on “Authenticated Concurent Databases” at HPTS 2022.
[Aug. 2022] Our paper “ServerlessBFT” is accepted at ICDE 2023.
[Jul. 2022] Gave a talk on “Resilient and Scalable Architectures” at IIT Delhi.
[Jul. 2022] Gave a talk on “Resilient and Scalable Architectures” at IIIT Delhi.
[Jun. 2022] Awarded Ph.D. by University of California, Davis.
[Jun. 2022] Awarded Best Graduate Researcher Award by CS at UC Davis.
[Mar. 2022] I will be hosting Sky Seminar Speaker Series at SkyLab.

Publications

Books

Fault-tolerant Distributed Transactions on Blockchain

S. Gupta, J. Hellings and M. Sadoghi

Morgan & Claypool, Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, 2021.

Conferences

Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust!

S. Gupta, S. Rahnama, S. Pandey, N. Crooks, and M. Sadoghi

18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). 2023.

Chemistry behind Agreement

S. Gupta, M. J. Amiri and M. Sadoghi

13th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). 2023.

Reliable Transactions in Serverless-Edge Architecture

S. Gupta, S. Rahnama, E. Linsenmayer, F. Nawab, and M. Sadoghi

39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). 2023.

RingBFT: Resilient Consensus over Sharded Ring Topology

S. Rahnama, S. Gupta, R. Sogani, D. Krishnan and M. Sadoghi

25th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). 2022.

RCC: Resilient Concurrent Consensus for High-Throughput Secure Transaction Processing

S. Gupta, J. Hellings and M. Sadoghi

37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). 2021.

Proof-of-Execution: Reaching Consensus through Fault-Tolerant Speculation

S. Gupta, J. Hellings, S. Rahnama, and M. Sadoghi

24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology. (EDBT). 2021.

Permissioned Blockchain Through the Looking Glass: Architectural and Implementation Lessons Learned

S. Gupta, S. Rahnama and M. Sadoghi

40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). 2020.

ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric

S. Gupta, S. Rahnama, J. Hellings and M. Sadoghi

Very Large Databases (VLDB). 2020.

Q-Store: Distributed, Multi-partition Transactions via Queue-oriented Execution and Communication.

T. Qadah, S. Gupta and M. Sadoghi

23rd International Conference of Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2020.

Brief Announcement: Revisiting Consensus Protocols through Wait-free Parallelization

S. Gupta, J. Hellings and M. Sadoghi

33rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC). 2019.

EasyCommit: A Non-blocking Two-phase Commit Protocol

S. Gupta and M. Sadoghi

21st International Conference of Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2018.

Optimizing Recursive Task Parallel Programs

S. Gupta, R. Shrivastava, and V. K. Nandivada

31st Intenational Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2017.

Journals

Efficient and non-blocking agreement protocols

S. Gupta, M. Sadoghi

Distributed and Parallel Database (DAPD). 2019.

IMSuite: A Benchmark Suite for Simulating Distributed Algorithms

S. Gupta and V. K. Nandivada

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Elsevier, 2015.

Selected Articles

Authenticated Concurrent Databases

S. Gupta

International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS), 2022.

Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics

S. Gupta

PhD Workshop, Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2020.

Efficient Transaction Processing in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Environments

S. Gupta, J. Hellings, T. Qadah, S. Rahnama and M. Sadoghi

International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS), 2019.

Blockchain Transaction Processing

S. Gupta, M. Sadoghi

Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham, 2018.

Tutorials

Building High Throughput Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics: Challenges and Opportunities

S. Gupta, J. Hellings, S. Rahnama and M. Sadoghi

46th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2020.

Blockchain consensus unraveled: Virtues and Limitations

S. Gupta, J. Hellings, S. Rahnama and M. Sadoghi

14th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS), 2020.

An In-Depth Look of BFT Consensus in Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities.

S. Gupta, J. Hellings, S. Rahnama and M. Sadoghi

Middleware Tutorials (MIDDLEWARE), 2019.

Demonstrations

Scalable, Resilient and Configurable Permissioned Blockchain Fabric

S. Rahnama, S. Gupta, T. Qadah, J. Hellings and M. Sadoghi

46th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2020.

Services

Assitant Editor

Journal of Systems Research (JSys), 2023

Conference Reviewer

ICDE 2022, 2023
SIGMOD 2023
ACM DEBS 2023
IEEE DAPPS 2022, 2023
IEEE BigData 2021, 2022, 2023
FAB 2022
ICDCS 2021
Sigmod Record 2019

Journal Reviewer

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2023
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2023
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022, 2023
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), 2021, 2022
Journal of Systems Research (JSys), 2021, 2022

External Reviewer

EDBT 2018
Middleware 2018

Artifact Evaluation Committee

SOSP 2023
OSDI 2023
ATC 2023

Web Chair

FAB 2021, 2022
Middleware 2019

Others

pVLDB Reproducibility 2019 – present
Student Reviewer: EuroSys 2022
Student Volunteer: VLDB 2019

Presentations

Live Presentations

Chemistry Behind Agreement, CIDR 2023, 01/11/2023. Slides
Red Light District of DB: BFT Consensus, Gong Show, CIDR 2023, 01/09/2023. Slides
Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, ConsensusDay'22, ACM CCS 2022, 07/11/2022. Slides
In Trusted Components we Trust, HPTS 2022, 11/10/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, CSE Seminar, IIT Delhi, 07/12/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, CSE Seminar Series, IIIT Delhi, 07/06/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, Distributed Systems Lab, UPenn, 06/13/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, FAB 2022, UC Berkeley, 06/03/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, LSD Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, 04/08/2022. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, Ph.D Exit Seminar, UC Davis, 06/12/2021. Slides, Video
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics at Talks at CCD (IIT Madras) , 04/30/2021. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics at Faisal Nawab's Course (UC Irvine) , 04/26/2021. Slides
Proof-of-Execution: Reaching Consensus through Fault-Tolerant Speculation at EDBT 2021, 03/26/2021. Slides, Teaser, Video
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics at RISE Seminar, UC Berkeley, 03/12/2021. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics at UMich's SRG Student Seminar, 03/25/2021. Slides
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics at Novi Research Seminars, 01/28/2021. Slides
Resilient Consensus for High-Throughput Secure Transaction Processing at Elaine Shi's Research Group, CMU, 12/17/2020. Slides
ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric at CS Seminars, UC Davis, 10/26/2020. Slides
Scaling Blockchain Databases through Parallel Resilient Consensus Paradigm at Novi Intern Seminar, 08/10/2020. Slides
An In-Depth Look of BFT Consensus in Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities at Reimagine v1.0 2020. System Theory
An In-Depth Look of BFT Consensus in Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities at Middleware 2019. System Theory

Recorded Presentations

RCC: Resilient Concurrent Consensus for High-Throughput Secure Transaction Processing at ICDE 2021. Slides
Permissioned Blockchain Through the Looking Glass: Architectural and Implementation Lessons Learned for ICDCS 2020. Slides, Video
Building High Throughput Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics: Challenges and Opportunities for VLDB 2020. System Theory, Video
ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric for VLDB 2020. Slides, Video
Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics for PhD Workshop at VLDB 2020. Slides, Video
Blockchain Consensus Unraveled: Virtues and Limitations at DEBS 2020. Video
Permissioned Blockchain Through the Looking Glass: Architectural and Implementation Lessons Learned for FAB 2020. Video
ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric for FAB 2020. Video