Publications
Honeybee: Decentralized Peer Sampling with Verifiable Random Walks for Blockchain Data Sharding
Yunqi Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
Mobihoc 2025
Flashback: Enhancing Proposer-Builder Design with Future-Block Auctions in Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
Yifan Mao, Mengya Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Zhiqiang Lin
ArXiv preprint
Topiary: Fast, Scalable Publish/Subscribe for Peer-to-Peer (D)Apps
Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
ArXiv preprint
Masquerade: Simple and Lightweight Transaction Reordering Mitigation in Blockchains
Arti Vedula, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Abhishek Gupta
ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies 2025
Constellation: Peer-to-Peer Overlays for Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems
Yifan Mao, Yunqi Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giuliano Losa
FC 2025
Web3-based Storage Solutions for Biomedical Research and Clinical Data Exchange
Julian Tugaoen, Alana Becker, Chenmeinian Guo, Efthimios Parasidis, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Jose Javier Otero
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2024
Rethinking Incentive in Payment Channel Networks
Yunqi Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
ICDCS workshop, 2023
PolicyClusterGCN: Identifying Efficient Clusters for Training Graph Convolutional Networks
Saket Gurukar, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Balaraman Ravindran, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
ASONAM 2023
Blockchain Bandits: Optimizing Mining Rewards in Proof-of-Work Network Games
Arti Vedula, Abhishek Gupta, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
ICBC 2023
Goldfish: Peer Selection using Matrix Completion in Unstructured P2P Network
Bowen Xue, Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Sreeram Kannan
ICBC 2023 (nominated for best paper)
Kadabra: Adapting Kademlia for the Decentralized Web
Yunqi Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
FC 2023
DecVi: Adaptive Video Conferencing on Open Peer-to-Peer Networks
Jingren Wei, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
ICDCN workshop, 2023
Less is More: Understanding Network Bias in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
Mathematics, 2023
The Effect of Network Topology on Credit Network Throughput
Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, Weizhao Tang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti, Mohammad Alizadeh
Performance 2021
Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains
Yifan Mao, Soubhik Deb, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Sreeram Kannan, Kannan Srinivasan
PODC 2020
High Throughput Cryptocurrency Routing in Payment Channel Networks
Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Kathleen Ruan, Parimarjan Negi, Lei Yang, Radhika Mittal, Giulia Fanti, Mohammad Alizadeh
NSDI 2020
Learning Generalizable Device Placement Algorithms for Distributed Machine Learning
Ravichandra Addanki, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Shreyan Gupta, Hongzi Mao, Mohammad Alizadeh
NeurIPS 2019
Park: An Open Platform for Learning-AugmentedComputer Systems
Hongzi Mao, Parimarjan Negi, Akshay Narayan, Hanrui Wang, Jiacheng Yang, Haonan Wang, Ryan Marcus, Ravichandra Addanki, Mehrdad Khani, Songtao He, Vikram Nathan, Frank Cangialosi, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Wei-Hung Weng, Song Han, Tim Kraska, Mohammad Alizadeh
NeurIPS 2019
Variance Reduction for Reinforcement Learning in input-Driven Environments
Hongzi Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Malte Schwarzkopf, Mohammad Alizadeh
ICLR 2019
Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters
Hongzi Mao, Malte Schwarzkopf, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Zili Meng, Mohammad Alizadeh
ACM Sigcomm 2019
Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees
Giulia Fanti, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Surya Bakshi, Bradley Denby, Shruti Bhargava, Andrew Miller, Pramod Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics 2018
Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity
Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Giulia Fanti, Pramod Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics 2017
Costly Circuits, Submodular Schedules: Hybrid Switch Scheduling for Data Centers
Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Mohammad Alizadeh, Pramod Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics 2016
Queuing Systems 2017
Information Complexity Density and Simulation of Protocols
Himanshu Tyagi, Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan, Pramod Viswanath, Shun Watanabe
Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) 2015
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2017
Deterministic Near-Optimal P2P Streaming
Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Pramod Viswanath
ACM Sigmetrics 2015
Degrees of Freedom for Multiple Multicast Traffic
Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2014
Dissertation & Reports
Algorithms for Interactive, Distributed and Networked Systems
Ph.D. dissertation, UIUC, May 2016
An Interference Alignment Scheme for Multiple Multicast Traffic
Master's Thesis, UIUC, May 2014