Short Bio
2023-present:
Associate Professor (untenured), Computer Science at Clark University
2017-2023:
Assistant Professor, Computer Science at Boston College
2016-2017:
Researcher, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, U.S.A.
2010-2016:
Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Nitin H. Vaidya
2005-2010:
B.S. in Computer Science
B.S. in Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CV (updated 06/2023)
Contact Info
Email:
lewistseng AT acm.org
Address:
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Research Interests
Distributed computing/systems
Bitcoin/Blockchain-based systems
Applications in intelligent traffic systems
News
2024
Our paper "Fault-tolerant Consensus in Anonymous Dynamic Network" has been accepted at ICDCS 2024. Congratulations, Qinzi!
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03017Our paper "ALock: Asymmetric Lock Primitive for RDMA Systems" has been accepted at SPAA 2024. Congratulations, Amanda and Jacob!
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17980Our paper "Brief Announcement: Racos: a Leaderless Erasure Coding State Machine Replication" has been accepted at SPAA 2024. Congratulations, Jonathan, Lucas, Dillon and Colin!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of OPODIS 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of PRDC 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of Globecom 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICDCN 2025. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICDCS 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of NETYS 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
2023
I am pleased and honored to announce I have been awarded the NSF CAREER, titled "Towards Fault-tolerant Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems: Distributed Primitives for Coordination Under Cyber Attacks". Abstract available here.
Our paper "Byzantine Consensus in Abstract MAC Layer" has been accepted at OPODIS 2023. Congratulations, Callie!
Our paper "Timestamp Verifiability in Proof-of-Work" has been accepted as a poster at MobiHoc 2023.
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15312Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICC 2024. Consider to submit and attend!
Our paper "Distributed Multi-writer Multi-reader Atomic Register with Optimistically Fast Read and Write" has been accepted at SPAA 2023.
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09382Our paper "Cryptocurrency meets CAP Theorem" has been accepted as a poster at ICBC 2023.
Our paper "Demo: Velox: Enhancing P2P Real-Time Communication in Browsers" has been accepted as a demo paper at PerCom 2023. Congratulations, Justin and Jackson! Link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/parleon/velox-songbird
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of Globecom 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of BCCA 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICBC 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of SSS 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
2022
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of PRDC 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of CLOUD 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICDCS 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of ICC 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of IPDPS 2023. Consider to submit and attend!
Our paper "Cholula: Fast, Fault-tolerant, and Strongly Consistent Off-chain Object Storage" has been accepted at BCCA 2022.
Our paper "Asymmetric Mutual Exclusion for RDMA" has been accepted as a Brief Announcement at DISC 2022.
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of OPODIS 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
Tzuo Hann Law (BC Econ) and I have been awarded TAM from BC, titled "Development of an Interdisciplinary Courses on Bitcoin, Blockchain, Consensus Assets and Their Impacts on Various Aspects of Society" -- see https://sites.google.com/view/consensussystem/
Our paper "Computability and Anonymous Storage-Efficient Consensus with an Abstract MAC Layer" has been accepted as a Brief Announcement at PODC 2022.
Our paper "A Human-centered Approach to make Networked Entertainment Green: A Case Study of CDN" has been accepted at NES 2022.
2021
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of GLOBECOM 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of PRDC 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
Invited to serve as Program Committee member of SSS 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
Our paper "Fault-tolerant Snapshot Objects in Message Passing Systems" has been accepted at IPDPS 2022.
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11837Our paper "Reliable Broadcast in Critical Applications: Asset Transfer and Smart Home" has been accepted at ICC 2022.
Our paper "Rabia: Simplifying State-Machine Replication Through Randomization" has been accepted at SOSP 2021.
Link to arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12616