The SeeMoRe Research Group at Stony Brook University works at the intersection of data management and distributed systems, focusing on distributed transaction processing and consensus protocols.

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Research

Tunable DB Guarantees

Providing Tunable consistency and isolation for distributed databases

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DAG-based BFT Protocols

Analyzing DAG-based BFT Consensus Protocols

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MEV Attacks

Analyzing MEV attacks on Blockchains and BFT protocols

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ML for Systems

This project aims to develop an adaptive distributed transaction processing system.

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Bedrock of BFT

A unified platform for BFT protocols analysis, implementation, and evaluation.

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Consensus Protocols Tuning

Tunning consneuss protocols configurations at runtime

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Future of Work

Enforcing regulations on multi-enterprise systems in a privacy-preserving manner

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Declarative Smart Contracts

Writing and optimizng declarative smart contracts

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Order-Fairness Protocols

Achieving order-fairness in BFT consensus protocols

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Permissioned Blockchains

Addressing different requirements of permissioned blockchain systems

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Scalable Distributed Systems

Designing scalable systems in untrustworthy environments

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People

B.S. and K-12 Students

Heer Patil
Simons Research Fellow

Collaborators

Divyakant Agrawal
Distinguished Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Amr El Abbadi
Distinguished Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Boon Thau Loo
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Tristan Allard
Associate Professor, University of Rennes
Ryan Marcus
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Chenyuan Wu
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Haoxian Chen
Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University
Zhen Ping Khor
PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Lan Lu
PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Liangrong Chen
PhD Student, City University of Hong Kong
Yan Wen
PhD Student, City University of Hong Kong
Zichun Cai
PhD Student, City University of Hong Kong
Haoyun Qin
Research Scientist at Spellbrush
Yosef Nuraga Wicaksana
BS Student, University of Indonesia

Alumni

Heena Nagda
PhD, Penn, 2025 (co-advised with Boon), next: Research Scientist, Meta
Bhavana Mehta
PhD, Penn, 2025 (co-advised with Boon), next: MTS, Zyphra
Prajwal Annigeri
M.S, 2026, next: MTS,Cohesity
Sidharth Bansal
M.S, 2026, next: Software Engineer,Amazon
Sayed Bilal Bari
M.S, 2025, next: System's Engineer, Nvidia
Apeksha Bodade
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech
Abhishek Deshmukh
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Cisco
Shreyas Gonjari
M.S, 2024, next: MTS, Nutanix
Vansh Jain
M.S, 2025, next: Co-Founder & CTO, Datafuel
Nithin Katla
M.S, 2025, next: AI Engineer, Solyx AI
Praneeth Komatla
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, AWS
Madhu Lakkoju
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Microsoft
Siddhartha Malladi
M.S, 2024, next: MTS, Oracle
Rajas Mateti
M.S, 2024, next: Software Engineer, Apple
Raunaq Pahwa
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Google
Omkar Rajwade
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Apple
Akshat Sharma
M.S, 2025, next: MTS, Pure Storage
Sakshi Sinha
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, Infosys
Kanav Talwar
M.S, 2025, next: Software Engineer, BlackRock
Akshay Venkatesan
M.S, 2024, next: Software Engineer, Meta
Shakir Islam
B.S, 2025, next: Support Engineer, Quicknode
Moinak Das
B.S, 2025, next: PhD at Stony Brook
Keon Attarha
Simons Research Fellow, next: B.S at Princeton
Eric Zhou
Simons Research Fellow, next: B.S at Northwestern