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Career

· Visiting Researcher, Uber2024–
· Expert Witness, Self-employed (Current)2019–
· Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia2019–
· Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia2013–2019
· MSc, PhD, Computer Science, University of Washington2006–2013
· Mathematics and Computer Science, The University of Chicago2002–2006

Publications (133)

Mitigating Sybils in Federated Learning Poisoning
arXiv.org · 2018
614
cited
The Limitations of Federated Learning in Sybil Settings
International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection · 2020
493
cited
Biscotti: A Blockchain System for Private and Secure Federated Learning
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 2021
296
cited
Leveraging existing instrumentation to automatically infer invariant-constrained models
ESEC/FSE '11 · 2011
242
cited
Inferring models of concurrent systems from logs of their behavior with CSight
International Conference on Software Engineering · 2014
191
cited
Seattle: a platform for educational cloud computing
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · 2009
180
cited
Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 2008
176
cited
Scalable consistency in Scatter
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles · 2011
166
cited
Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation
Group · 2007
148
cited
Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
128
cited
General LTL Specification Mining (T)
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering · 2015
122
cited
SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Urgent High-Performance Computing
Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments · 2006
92
cited
Biscotti: A Ledger for Private and Secure Peer-to-Peer Machine Learning
arXiv.org · 2018
88
cited
Erlay: Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2019
85
cited
Improving microservice-based applications with runtime placement adaptation
Journal of Internet Services and Applications · 2019
73
cited
Debugging distributed systems
Communications of the ACM · 2016
69
cited
Behavioral resource-aware model inference
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering · 2014
62
cited
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You: Characterizing Callbacks in Javascript
International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement · 2015
54
cited
Using Declarative Specification to Improve the Understanding, Extensibility, and Comparison of Model-Inference Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2015
54
cited
Unifying FSM-inference algorithms through declarative specification
International Conference on Software Engineering · 2013
52
cited
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