Neil Giridharan

Ambulance: saving BFT through racing
Neil Giridharan, Shubham Mishra, Lorenzo Alvisi, Natacha Crooks, Benjamin Marsh, Hein Meling, Kartik Nayak, and Grzegorz Prusak
To appear in USENIX OSDI, 2026.

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Pesto: Cooking up High Performance BFT Queries.
Florian Suri-Payer, Neil Giridharan, Liam Arzola, Shir Cohen, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Natacha Crooks
In ACM SOSP, 2025.

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Real Life is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too!
Reginald Frank, Octavio Lomeli, Neil Giridharan, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Marcos K. Aguilera, and Natacha Crooks.
In HotOS, 2025.

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Autobahn: Seamless high speed BFT
Neil Giridharan*, Florian Suri-Payer*, Ittai Abraham, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Natacha Crooks.
In ACM SOSP, 2024.

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Granular Synchrony
Neil Giridharan, Ittai Abraham, Natacha Crooks, Kartik Nayak, and Ling Ren.
In DISC, 2024.

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BeeGees: Stayin' Alive in Chained BFT
Neil Giridharan, Florian Suri-Payer, Matthew Ding, Heidi Howard, Ittai Abraham, and Natacha Crooks.
In ACM PODC, 2023.

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Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino, and Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias.
In ACM CCS, 2022.

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Brief Announcement: It’s not easy to relax: liveness in chained BFT protocols
Ittai Abraham, Natacha Crooks, Neil Giridharan†, Heidi Howard, and Florian Suri-Payer.
In DISC, 2022.

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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.

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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

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A Generalized Multi-Leader State Machine Replication Tutorial
Michael Whittaker, Neil Giridharan, Adriana Szekeres, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Ion Stoica.
In JSys, 2021

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It's not a lie if you don't get caught: simplifying reconfiguration in SMR through dirty logs
Allen Clement, Natacha Crooks, Neil Giridharan, and Alex Shamis.
In arXiv, February 2026.

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Proteus: Append-Only Ledgers for (Mostly) Trusted Execution Environments
Shubham Mishra, Joao Goncalves, Chawinphat Tankuranand, Neil Giridharan, Natacha Crooks, Heidi Howard, and Chris Jensen.
In arXiv, February 2026.

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No-Commit Proofs: Defeating Livelock in BFT
Neil Giridharan, Heidi Howard, Ittai Abraham, Natacha Crooks, and Alin Tomescu.
In ePrint, September 2021

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