Personal Website of Kai Mast

Hello world!

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Cornell University. I live in the wonderful Ithaca, NY and am advised by Gün Sirer. My committee is further comprises Ross Tate and Michael Macy. I am a member of the initiative for cryptocurrencies and contracts (IC3).

Contact me for a more detailed CV or if you want to chat. My preferred gender pronouns are he/him.
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Feel free to check out my Twitter and Github profiles. Further, I highly recommend my advisers blog: Hacking, Distributed.

As you may know, email security is pretty broken. So I prefer to communicate over end-to-end encrypted channels. My PGP key has the following fingerprint: CC4C B973 F3BB CB09 CA05 D4A9 A539 0769 355D E304

Current Projects

Verifiable Databases

Will be updated soon...

Lifestyle Politics

Survey research reveals deep partisan divisions in the U.S. that extend beyond politics to include cultural tastes, lifestyle choices, and consumer preferences. We show how co-following on Twitter can be used to measure the extent to which these divisions are also evident in social media. The results provide compelling evidence that Tesla liberals and bird hunting conservatives are stereotypes grounded in empirical reality.
(joint work with Yongren Shi, Michael Macy, Agrippa Kellum, and Ingmar Weber)

Project Page.

Publications

[1]	Sergey Legtchenko, Hugh Williams, Kaveh Razavi, Austin Donnelly, Richard Black, Andrew Douglas, Nathanael Cheriere, Daniel Fryer, Kai Mast, Angela Demke Brown, et al. Understanding rack-scale disaggregated storage. 2017. [ bib ]
[2]	Klaus M Schneider, Kai Mast, and Udo R Krieger. Ccn forwarding strategies for multihomed mobile terminals. In Networked Systems (NetSys), 2015 International Conference and Workshops on, pages 1--5. IEEE, 2015. [ bib ]

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science @ Cornell University (ongoing)
• B.S. in Software Engineering @ University of Bamberg

Research Experience

• Systems Lab, Cornell (ongoing)
• Social Dynamics Lab, Cornell (ongoing)
• Systems & Networks Group, MSR Cambridge (Summer 2016)
• Research and Development, Intel Mobile Communications (2014)
• Computer Networks Lab, Uni Bamberg (2012-2014)
• Institute for Theoretical Psychology, Uni Bamberg (2011-2012)

(Non-research) Internships

• Siemens Healthcare (2013)
• Elektrobit Automotive (2012-2013)

Outreach and Volunteering

• Expand Your Horizon (2016)
• Computer Science Teacher, Belle Sherman Elementary School (2014)
• Student Representative, Uni Bamberg (2011-2014)
• Zivildienst, Elementary and Middle School Hirschaid (2010-2011)

Teaching

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

Awards and Recognition

• Outstanding TA Award, Spring 2017

Trivia

• The CS department relies on me for their caffeine needs, for I am the espresso czar.
• I ran for a public office once in Germany (as a candidate of the Pirate Party).
• 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.

Mentors and Friends

• Gün Sirer @ Cornell
• Todor Mladenov @ Intel
• Philipp Eittenberger and Udo Krieger @ Uni Bamberg
• Dietrich Doerner @ Uni Bamberg

Some awesome grad students (in no particular order): Jack Hessel, Dipendra Misa, Soumya Basu, Klaus Schneider, Linus Dietz, Efe Gencer, Rediet Abebe, Vera Khovanskaya.