Suyash Gupta

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at SkyLab, University of California, Berkeley. where I work with with Dr. Natacha Crooks. I will be joining Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor from Fall 2024 and directing Distopia Laboratory.

My research focusses on designing efficient decentralized systems that can handle arbitrary failures and can scale across the WAN.

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

• [Jun. 2024] Our paper “Transfer Learning via Latent Dependency Factor for Estimating PM 2.5” accepted at ECML PKDD 2024.
• [Oct. 2023] Two posters accepted and presented at SOSP 2023.
• [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.
• [Nov. 2022] Our paper “Chemistry behind Agreement” is accepted at CIDR 2023.
• [Aug. 2022] Our paper “ServerlessBFT” is accepted at ICDE 2023.
• [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

Services

Assitant Editor

• Journal of Systems Research (JSys), Aug 2023 --

Conference Reviewer

• SIGMOD 2023, 2025
• ICDE 2022, 2023, 2025
• USENIX ATC 2024
• IJCAI 2024
• EuroSys Posters 2024
• VLDB Tutorials 2023, 2024
• IEEE DAPPS 2022, 2023, 2024
• FAB 2022, 2024
• ACM DEBS 2023
• IEEE BigData 2021, 2022, 2023
• ICDCS 2021
• Sigmod Record 2019

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024
• 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

• Student Reviewer: EuroSys 2022
• pVLDB Reproducibility 2019 – 2021
• Student Volunteer: VLDB 2019

Talks

Live Talks

• Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, UC Irvine, 10/13/2023.
• Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, UWashington, 10/04/2023.
• Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, SkyRetreat 2023, 06/01/2023.
• Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, EuroSys 2023, 05/11/2023. Slides
• Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust, SysTEX'23, EuroSys 2023, 05/08/2023. Slides
• Reliable Transactions in Serverless-Edge Architecture, ICDE 2023, 04/06/2023. Slides
• 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 Talks

• 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

Students

Current

• Shubham Mishra, PhD, UC Berkeley - May 2023
• Chun Deng, B.Sc, UC Berkeley - Jan 2023
• Dakai Kang, PhD, UC Davis - Jan 2023
• Junchao Chen, PhD, UC Davis - Jan 2022

Past

• Qibao Xu, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (June 2023 - Dec 2023)
• Michael Paper, M. Sc, EPFL (Feb 2023 - Aug 2023) - Now at Imperial College London
• Shivang Singh, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (Jan 2022 - July 2022) - Now at Bloomberg
• Shreya Shekhar, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (Jan 2022 - July 2022)
• Aditya Ramkumar, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (Sep 2021 - July 2022) - Now at Google
• Ian Chang, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021)
• Kentaro Vadney, B.Sc, UC Berkeley (Sep 2021 - Dec 2021)
• Shubham Pandey, MS, UC Davis (June 2020 - June 2021) - Now at Cisco, Bay Area
• Erik Linsenmayer, B.Sc, UC Davis (June 2020 - June 2021) - Now at DIII-D National Fusion Facility
• Alex Su, B.Sc, UC Davis (June 2020 - Dec 2020)
• Rohan Sogani, MS, UC Davis (Jan 2020 - Dec 2020) - Now at Amazon, Seattle
• Priya Holani, MS, UC Davis (Jan 2020 - Aug 2020) - Now at Amazon, Seattle
• Dhruv Krishnan, MS, UC Davis (Jan 2020 - Aug 2020) - Now at Amazon, Seattle
• Xinyuan Sun, B.Sc, UC Davis (Jan 2020 - Aug 2020)
• Federico Mengozzi, B.Sc, UC Davis (Sep 2018 - June 2019) - Now at Carsbarter, Murcia
• Shreenath Iyer, MS, UC Davis (Sep 2018 - June 2019) - Now at Amazon, Seattle
• Romen Rubero, B.Sc, UC Davis (Sep 2018 - June 2019) - Now at Carsbarter, Murcia
• Patrick J. Liao, B.Sc, UC Davis (Jan 2018 - Dec 2018) - Now at Juniper Technology
• Domenic Cianchi, MS, UC Davis (Jan 2018 - Aug 2018)

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