Hello world!

I am a Ph.D.candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University. I live in the wonderful Ithaca, New York and am advised by Gün Sirer. My research current focuses on Byzantine fault-tolerant systems, in particular Blockchain protocols. I am also a member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and the Cornell Systems Lab.

Talk to me:
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Publications

• Understanding Rack-Scale Disaggregated Storage.
  Sergey Legtchenko, Hugh Williams, Kaveh Razavi, Austin Donnelly, Richard Black, Andrew Douglas, Nathanael Cheriere, Daniel Fryer, Kai Mast, Angela Demke Brown, and others.
  Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2017.
• Enabling Strong Database Integrity using Trusted Execution Environments.
  Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, and Emin Gün Sirer.
  CoRR, abs/1801.01618v2, 2018.
• Scaling Databases Through Trusted Hardware Proxies.
  Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution, 2017.
• CCN Forwarding Strategies for Multihomed Mobile Terminals.
  Klaus M. Schneider, Kai Mast, and Udo R. Krieger.
  International Conference and Workshops on Networked Systems, 2015.
• Cultural Fault Lines and Political Polarization.
  Yongren Shi, Kai Mast, Ingmar Weber, Agrippa Kellum, and Michael Macy.
  International ACM Web Science Conference, 2017.

Teaching

• CS 4410: Operating Systems, Fall 2015, Spring 2017 (TA Award)
• CS 4320: Database Systems, Fall 2014
• Datenkommunikation (Computer Networks), Fall 2013

Trivia

• I live in a wonderful cooperative house with other students and Ithaca locals.
• When I don't spend hours in front of the computer, I like to plant vegetables, do Yoga, and occasionally rock climb.