I am a second-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Virginia Vassilevska Williams. My research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

I can be reached at jhnkszml@mit.edu or [first-name].[last-name]@gmail.com

Publications

 (All authors listed in alphabetical order.)

1. Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert, John Kuszmaul, Maxwell Young. Fully Energy-Efficient Randomized Backoff: Slow Feedback Loops Yield Fast Contention Resolution. In the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 231-242, 2024.

2. Michael A. Bender, Martín Farach-Colton, John Kuszmaul, and William Kuszmaul. Modern Hashing Made Simple. In the SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA), pages 363-373, 2024.

3. Nikhil Bansal, John Kuszmaul, and William Kuszmaul.  A Nearly Tight Lower Bound for the d-Dimensional Cow-Path Problem.  In Information Processing Letters (IPL), 182, 106389, 2023.

4. John Kuszmaul.   Bamboo Trimming Revisited: Simple Algorithms Can Do Well Too.   In the 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pages 411--417, 2022.

5. Michael A. Bender, Martín Farach-Colton, John Kuszmaul, William Kuszmaul, and Mingmou Liu.   On the Optimal Time/Space Tradeoff for Hash Tables.   In the 54th Annual Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 1284-1297, 2022.

6. Michael A. Bender, Seth Gilbert, Fabian Kuhn, John Kuszmaul, and Muriel Médard.   Contention Resolution for Coded Radio Networks.   In the 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pages 119-130, 2022.

Select Awards and Honors

2025 Hertz Finalist

2024 MIT Akamai Fellowship Winner

My undergraduate thesis won the Yale Computer Science Outstanding Senior Thesis Prize.

Talks

Talk at the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). June 2024. Gave talk entitled "Fully Energy-Efficient Randomized Backoff: Slow Feedback Loops Yield Fast Contention Resolution."

Poster Presentation at the Yale CS Senior Thesis Project Fair.  December 2023.  Presented “Generalized Verkle Trees.”

Invited Talk at the DIMACS Workshop on Lower Bounds and Frontiers in Data Structure.   August 2022.   Gave talk entitled ''On the Optimal Time/Space Tradeoff for Hash Tables.''

Talk at the 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).   July 2022.   Gave talk entitled ''Contention Resolution for Coded Radio Networks.''

Talk at the 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).   July 2022.   Gave talk entitled ''Bamboo Trimming Revisited: Simple Algorithms Can Do Well Too.''

Invited Talk at 15th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling (MAPSP).   June 2022.   Gave talk entitled ''Bamboo Trimming Revisited: Simple Algorithms Can Do Well Too.''

Invited Talk at the New Challenges in Scheduling theory Workshop, Aussois, France.   May 2022.   Gave talk entitled ''Bamboo Trimming Revisited: Simple Algorithms Can Do Well Too.''

Verkle Trees

John Kuszmaul. Verkle Trees

My 2019 PRIMES Conference Talk on Verkle Trees

Verkle Trees are now being implemented in Ethereum, as Vitalik Buterin explains in this post. They were featured in MIT CSAIL News (here).

My Ethereum address: 0xC5Fab45acc964c0033EAE5Be7624B423fbE92CCA

Public Key

Here is my account on Keybase, a public-key directory. My public PGP key:

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