Neil Giridharan
I am a 4th-year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Natacha Crooks. I am supported by the Meta PhD Research Fellowship.
✉️ giridhn AT berkeley DOT edu
Research Interest: Distributed systems and consensus protocols
Publications
BeeGees: Stayin' Alive in Chained BFT
Neil Giridharan, Florian Suri-Payer, Matthew Ding, Heidi Howard, Ittai Abraham, and Natacha Crooks.
In ACM PODC 2023.
Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino, and Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias.
In ACM CCS, 2022.
Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization
Michael Whittaker, Ailidani Ailijiang, Aleksey Charapko, Murat Demirbas, Neil Giridharan, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Heidi Howard, Ion Stoica, and Adriana Szekeres.
In VLDB, 2021.
Matchmaker Paxos: A Reconfigurable Consensus Protocol
Michael Whittaker, Neil Giridharan, Adriana Szekeres, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Heidi Howard, Faisal Nawab, and Ion Stoica.
In JSys, 2021
A Generalized Multi-Leader State Machine Replication Tutorial
Michael Whittaker, Neil Giridharan, Adriana Szekeres, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Ion Stoica.
In JSys, 2021
Preprints
No-Commit Proofs: Defeating Livelock in BFT
Neil Giridharan, Heidi Howard, Ittai Abraham, Natacha Crooks, and Alin Tomescu.
In ePrint, September 2021
Teaching
- GSI: CS294, Distributed Systems and Distributed Computing, Spring 2023
- GSI: CS194/294, Decentralized Finance, Fall 2021
Education
UC Berkeley (2016-2020, Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science)