The CIS Department invites you to join us as we welcome Dr. Mohammad Javad Amiri on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 2:00pm. Mohammad Javad Amiri is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is working with Prof. Boon Thau Loo. At Penn, he is a member of the NetDB research group, distributed systems lab, and database group. Before joining Penn, He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the supervision of Prof. Divyakant Agrawal and Prof. Amr El Abbadi. His research mainly lies at the intersection of large-scale data management and distributed fault-tolerant systems, focusing on distributed transaction processing, consensus protocols, and blockchains. His work has appeared at premier conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, WWW, FSE, and ICDE.
Please join us in person in SERC 306.