Hello world!

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

Please contact me for a full CV or if you have any other questions:
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News

• I will be joining the University of Wisconsin as a postdoctoral researcher in the fall!

Publications

• A Vision for Autonomous Blockchains backed by Secure Hardware
  Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution, 2019.
• 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.
• Scaling Databases Through Trusted Hardware Proxies
  Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution, 2017.
• Cultural Fault Lines and Political Polarization
  Yongren Shi, Kai Mast, Ingmar Weber, Agrippa Kellum, and Michael Macy.
  International ACM Web Science Conference, 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.

Teaching

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

Places I work(ed) at

Cornell University, UC Berkeley, University of Bamberg, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Siemens Healthcare, Elektrobit Automotive, Intel Mobile Communications

Trivia

• I'm originally from Bamberg, Germany, know for its beautiful old town and "smoked beer".
• I live in a cooperative house with other students and Ithaca locals.
• When I don't spend hours in front of the computer I like to garden and rock climb.