Distributed Systems

Tarek F. Abdelzaher
Prof. Abdelzaher is especially interested in developing theory, architectural support, and computing abstractions for predictability in software systems, motivated by increasing software complexity and the growing sources of non-determinism. Applications range from sensor networks to large-scale server farms, and from avionics to homeland defense.
Rakesh Bobba

Rakesh Bobba's research interests are in network and distributed system security and critical infrastructure protection. Topics of interest include authentication, access control, key management, security protocols and their formal analysis, and applied cryptography, among others.
Nikita Borisov

Professor Borisov's research interests lie in the area of computer security and privacy, especially as applied to large-scale distributed systems. His current focus is on anonymity: analysis of existing anonymous systems and the design of new peer-to-peer anonymous networks.
Matthew Caesar

Prof. Caesar's research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of distributed systems and networks on the extremely large scale, with an emphasis on network operations, measurement, and availability.
Geir E. Dullerud

Professor Dullerud is interested in controls and dynamics, especially networked, distributed and multirate hybrid control. He is currently a principal investigator in a large, interdisciplinary research effort sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on cooperative networked control of small uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Carl A. Gunter

Professor Gunter uses his background in programming languages to analyze protocols and systems with respect to trustworthy operation. Information about Professor Gunter's recent work is outlined on the Security Lab page.
Indranil Gupta

Professor Gupta is interested in studying design, implementation, and evaluation issues for large-scale distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, the Grid, and sensor networks.
Naira Hovakimyan

Naira Hovakimyan's current research interests are in the theory of robust adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, control in the presence of limited information, networks of autonomous systems, and game theory. Her research work is being supported by AFOSR, ARO, AFRL, ONR, NASA, and The Boeing Co.
Ravishankar K. Iyer

Professor Iyer is interested in developing and analyzing techniques for developing secure and reliable systems. He leads several projects in this area. One project is the Reconfigurable Reliability and Security Engine. A common processor-level framework that can provide application-aware reliability and security is attractive and timely.
Himanshu Khurana

Dr. Khurana's research interests lie in the area of distributed system security, especially as applied to large-scale distributed systems and critical infrastructures. He is currently working on developing security solutions for messaging systems and the power grid infrastructure.