ICDCS 2021

41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
July 7 - July 10, 2021, Virtual Washington DC, USA

Technical Committee

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Chairs

Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary

PC Members

Janki Bimani, Florida International University
Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
Feng Chen, Louisiana State University
Andrew Chien, University of Chicago
Heming Cui, The University of Hong Kong
Vittoria De Nitto, Persone’ University of Rome Tor Vergata
Alma Dimnaku, Network Appliances
Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California
Kyle Hale, Illinois Institute of Technology
Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg
Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh
Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington
Lei Jiao, University of Oregon
Xin Jin, Johns Hopkins University
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary
John Lange, University of Pittsburgh
Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiajia Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Guyue Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Xu Liu, North Carolina State University
Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Arthur Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University
Bin Nie, Google
Alessandro Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University
José Orlano, Pereira University of Minho
Riccardo Pinciroli, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Harigovind Ramasamy, Amazon
Bin Ren, College of William and Mary
Yuanyuan Sun, Alibaba Group
Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore
Elizabeth Varki, University of New Hampshire
Peter Varman, Rice University
Jia Wang, AT&T Labs-Research
Katinka Wolter, Freie Universitaet zu Berlin
Ji Xue, Google
Feng Yan, University of Nevada, Reno
Yongle Zhang, Purdue University
Pengfei Zuo, Huawei

Distributed Algorithms and Theory

Chairs

Dan Alistarh, Institute of Science and Technology
Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna

PC Members

Faith Ellen, University of Toronto
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
George Giakkoupis, INRIA Rennes
Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, IST
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom ParisTech
Przemek Uznanski, University of Wroclaw
Lewis Tseng, Boston College
Taisuke Izumi, Osaka University
Lili Su, Northeastern
Julian Shun, MIT
Naama Ben-David, VMWare Research
Calvin Newport, Georgetown University
Yuval Emek, Technion
Elad Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology
Yannic Maus, Technion
Irina Kostitsyna, TU Eindhoven
Christoph Lenzen, Max Planck Institute
Joel Rybicki, IST
Peter Davies, IST
Klaus-Tycho Foerster, University of Vienna
Janna Burman, INRIA Saclay
Vitaly Aksenov, ITMO University
Peter Robinson, City University of Hong Kong
Rati Gelashvili, Novi
Kartik Nayak, Duke University
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn
Thomas Locher, DFINITY
Srivatsan Ravi, University of Southern California
Christian Decker, Blockstream
Trevor Brown, University of Waterloo

Distributed Big Data Systems and Analytics

Chairs

Gagan Agrawal, Augusta University
Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California Davis

PC Members

Ali Butt, Virginia Tech University
Weikuan Yu, Florida State University
Xiaoyi Lu, Ohio State University
Yang Wang, Ohio State University
Edward Tremmel, Augusta University
Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Ammar Ahmad Awan, Microsoft
Rong Ge, Clemson University
Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Labs
Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo
Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney and EPFL
Jelle Hellings, UC Davis
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research
Roy Friedman, Technion
Kaiwen Zhang, ÉTS Montreal
Suyash Gupta, UC Davis
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University
Marc Spaniol, Université de Caen Normandie
Irene Manotas, IBM
Rajesh Bordawekar, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Navendu Jain, Microsoft
Meikel Poess, Oracle
K. R. Jayaram, IBM Research
Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano
Shadi Ibrahim, Inria

Distributed Fault Tolerance and Dependability

Chairs

Elias Duarte, Federal University of Parana
Devesh D Tiwari, Northeastern University

PC Members

Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence
Catello Di Martino, Nokia Bell Labs
Dimitris Gizopoulos, University of Athens
Eduardo Alchieri, University of Brasilia
Fernando Pedone, U. Swizzera Italiana
Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory
Ignacio Laguna Peralta, Lawerence Livermore National Lab
Iyswarya Narayanan, Facebook
Jiajia Li, Pacific Nortwest National Lab
Jiangshan Yu, Monash University
Karthik Pattabiraman, Univ of British Columbia
Luciana Arantes, Sorbonne Université
Luiz Rodrigues, Western Parana State University
Mahmut Kandemir, Penn State University
Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs – Research
Miguel Correia, University of Lisbon
Neeraj Suri, Lancaster University, UK
Raimundo Macedo, Federal University of Bahia
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University
Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Swamit Tannu, University of Wisconsin Madison
Timothy Tsai, NVIDIA
Xavier Defago, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware

Chairs

Liting Hu, Florida International University
Timothy Wood, George Washington University

PC Members

Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft
Antonio Barbalace, The University of Edinburgh
Cheng Li, University of Science and Technology of China
Dong Chen, Florida International University
Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hailu Xu, California State University Long Beach
Jia Rao, The University of Texas at Arlington
Jinho Hwang, IBM Research
Liyao Xiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mai Zheng, Iowa State University
Pradeep Kumar, The College of William and Mary
Sameer Gundurao Kulkarni, IIT Gandhinagar
Trinabh Gupta, University of California, Santa Barbara

Edge Computing

Chairs

David Eyers, University of Otago
Maria Gorlatova, Duke University

PC Members

Mohammad Alam, University of Massachusetts Lowell
David Bermbach, TU Berlin
Christopher Brinton, Purdue University
Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien
Wei Gao, University of Pittsburgh
Wenjun Hu, Yale University
Hazer Inaltekin, Macquarie University
Chandra Krintz, University of California Santa Barbara
Guohao Lan, Duke University
Qun Li, College of William and Mary
Yao Liu, Binghamton University
Simone Mangiante, Vodafone
Rolando Martins, University of Porto
Nitinder Mohan, Technical University Munich
Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc Novakouski SEI, Carnegie Mellon University
Kwangsung Oh, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dan O’Keeffe, Royal Holloway University of London
George Pallis, University of Cyprus
Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas Rausch, TU Wien
Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey
Haiying Shen, University of Virginia
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Fusion-IO
Amir Taherkordi, University of Oslo
Cédric Tedeschi, Université de Rennes 1
Wanqing Tu, University of Auckland
Luís Veiga, Universidade de Lisboa
Dinesh Verma, IBM
Michael Wang, Systems & Technology Research
Yu Xiao, Aalto University
Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University
Xiaoxi Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University
Yifan Zhang, Binghamton University
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney

Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems

Chairs

Hongbo Jiang, Hunan University
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin

PC Members

Bernhard Rinner, University of Klagenfurt
Daibo Liu, Hunan University
Edith Ngai, The University of Hong Kong
Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento
Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University
Jiangtao Wang, Coventry University
Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong
Ju Ren, Central South University
Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological University
Kaishun Wu, Shenzhen University
Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California Irvine
Oana Iova, INSA
Octav Chipara, University of Iowa
Olga Saukh, TU Graz
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales
Valerie Issarny, INRIA
Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University
Zhibo Wang, Wuhan University

Mobile and Wireless Computing

Chairs

Feng Qian, University of Minnesota
Hulya Seferoglu, University of Illinois at Chicago

PC Members

Yingying Chen, Rutgers University
Falko Dressler, TU Berlin
Haipeng Dai, Nanjing University
Jun Han, National University of Singapore
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Zhenjiang Li, City University of Hong Kong
Jörg Ott, Technical University of Munich
Vaskar Raychoudhury, Miami University Ohio
Stephan Sigg, Aalto University
Rui Tan, Nanyang Technological University
Zheng Yang, Tsinghua University
Xiufeng Xie Kwai, Seattle AI Lab
Zhenhua Li, Tsinghua University
Shubham Jain, Stony Brook University
Youngki Lee, Seoul National University
Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs Research
Mengwei Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Longfei Shangguan, Microsoft Cognition
Shijia Pan, The University of California, Merced
Haiming Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sanjib Sur, University of South Carolina
Ayon Chakraborty, IIT Madras
György Dán, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bing Wang, University of Connecticut
Wen Hu, UNSW Sydney
Ambuj Varshney, University of California, Berkeley
Song Min Kim, KAIST
Bin Li, University of Rhode Island
Zhimeng Yin, City University of Hong Kong
Yan Wang, Temple University
Chenren Xu, Peking University
Yihua Guo, Uber Inc.
Luyang Liu, Google
Liangyi Gong, Tsinghua University

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems

Chairs

Qingyang Wang, Louisiana State University
Jinpeng Wei, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

PC Members

Adam O’Neill, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alex Liu, Ant Group
Amit Sikder, Georgia Tech
Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota
Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame
Chung-Hwan Kim, University of Texas, Dallas
Daniel Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Golden Richard, Louisiana State University
Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University
Jian Huang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jun Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jun Zhao, Nanyang Technological University
Kang Li, Baidu USA
Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University
Kui Ren, Zhejiang University
Lei Yu, IBM Research, Watson
Maria Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano
Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University
Mengjun Xie, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Neil Gong, Duke University
Pengfei Hu, Shandong University
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano
Qiben Yan, Michigan State University
Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano
Sherman Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Surya Nepal, CSIRO
Ting Wang, Penn State University
Tom Moyer, UNC Charlotte
Tongping Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve University
Yinzhi Cao, Johns Hopkins University
Yuzhe Tang, Syracuse University
Zhongjie Ba, Zhejiang University

Blockchain

Chairs

David Mohaisen, University of Central Florida
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, IBM Research – India

PC Members

Ermyas Abebe, IBM Research – Australia
Ittai Abraham, VMWare
Shashank Agrawal, Western Digital Research
Pelin Angin, Middle East Technical University
Zeta Avarikioti, ETH Zurich
Artem Barger, IBM Research – Haifa
Salman Baset, MongoDB
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck
Joseph Bonneau, New York University
Jun Zhao, Nanyang Technological University
Christian Cachin, University of Bern
Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur
Anh Dinh, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Gilbert Fridgen, University of Bayreuth
Esha Ghosh, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
Sandra Johnson, ConsenSys
Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology
Xueping Liang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Senthilnathan Natarajan, IBM Research
Petr Novotny, IBM Research – Yorktown
DaeHun Nyang, Ewha Womans University
Moriyoshi Ohara, IBM Research – Tokyo
Andrew Poelstra, Blockstream
Antonella Del Pozzo, CEA List
Emanuele Ragnoli, QPQ Ltd: CTO
Ling Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Peter Robinson, Consensys
Stefanie Roos, TU Delft
Muhammad Saad, University of Central Florida
Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University
Alberto Sonnino, Facebook
Stefan Tai, TU Berlin
Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
My Thai, University of Florida
Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, CEA List
Jiang Xiao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Machine Learning on or for Distributed Systems

Chairs

Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Iqbal Mohomed, Samsung Electronics

PC Members

Alex Chen, Samsung Electronics Canada
Karthik Dantu, SUNY Buffalo
Arpan Gujarati, MPI-SWS
Zhiming Hu, Samsung Research Toronto
David Irwin, UMass Amherst
Myeongjae Jeon, UNIST
Bo Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Carlee Joe-Wong, CMU
Ilias Leontiadis, Samsung AI
Jian Li, Binghamton University
Abhigyan Sharma, AT&T Labs Research
Prateek Sharma, Indiana University
Robert Walls, WPI
Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Hong Xu, Henry, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lijie Xu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kevin Hsieh, Microsoft Research
Shaohuai Shi, HKUST
Yue Zhang, Amazon Alexa
Zeyi Wen, National University of Singapore
Shiqiang Wang, IBM US
Yue Cheng, George Mason University

Insights from Industrial Experience

Chair

Dean Hildebrand, Google

PC Members

John Bent, Seagate Technology
Sai Zhang, Google
Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University
Kristi Potter, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam
Deniz Altinbuken, Google
Artur Podobas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Zehra Sura, Bloomberg LP

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