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Dan Alistarh Chemin Salomon-Penay 2, 1217 Meyrin, GE Email: [email protected] Tel: +41 76 611 18 21

Education

09/2012 – 12/2013 Theory of Computation Group, MIT, USA Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate, working on large-scale distributed systems. 09/2007 – 08/2012 Distributed Programming Laboratory (LPD), EPFL, Switzerland PhD in Computer Science, under the supervision of Prof. Rachid Guerraoui. 09/2004 – 06/2007 Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Double B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, on a merit-based scholarship. 08/2006 – 12/2006 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Semester abroad as an exchange student in the School of Computer Science.

Interests and Expertise Distributed Systems Algorithms and Data Structures Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Work Experience 05/2016 – present Senior Researcher, Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich Research in Applied Algorithms, in particular concurrent data structures and distributed algorithms, with applications to machine learning and large-scale distributed optimization.

01/2014 – 05/2016 Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and Morgan Fellow, Downing College, University of Cambridge Research in Algorithms and Computer Systems, in particular distributed algorithms, optimization for data-intensive applications, and next-generation wireless protocols. 09/2007– 09/2012

Research Assistant, Distributed Programming Lab, EPFL Research on the design and implementation of efficient and reliable distributed systems. The work resulted in new algorithms and frameworks for scalable distributed computation.

09/2007 – 08/2012 Internship, TU-Berlin/T-Mobile Research, Berlin Germany Research on routing attacks and countermeasures, in the context of fault-tolerant systems deployed at Internet scale. 09/2004 – 06/2007 System Developer, Cylab Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University Research resulting in a working prototype of a three-dimensional pointing device. The work included hardware and software design, and development of data filtering algorithms.

Awards and Achievements 2012-2016

Microsoft Research / MIT

2004 – 2006

Elected as the Morien Morgan Research Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge. Papers in PODC’14, SPAA’15, PPoPP’16 highlighted as top 5% of accepted papers. Papers in STOC‘14 and PPoPP ‘15 highlighted by Communications of the ACM and Slashdot. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Awarded Swiss National Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for a research stay at MIT. Awarded 2011 Technion “Aly Kaufmann” Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined). Best Paper Award at ICDCN 2011. Elected by the student body as the student representative in the Doctoral School committee. Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

2005 – 2006

Member of the Jacobs University President’s List for high academic achievement. Merit-based grant from Jacobs University. Selected for the Carnegie Mellon exchange program by the Computer Science faculty. International Mathematics Olympiad for University Students (IMC)

2007 – 2013

2000 – 2002

3rd Prize in Bulgaria, 2005. Honourable Mention in Ukraine, 2006. Romanian National Mathematical Olympiad 2nd Prize Ramnicu Valcea, 2002. 3rd Prize, Targu Mures, 2001.

Program

Academic Activity

Committees: Invited Workshop Participation: Journal reviews:

PC Member, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2016. PC Member, Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 2016. PC Member, International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2013, 2015. PC Member, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2012-2016. “Complexity and Analysis of Distributed Algorithms,” Oaxaca, Mexico, 2016. “Probabilistic Techniques for Shared Memory Computation,” Banff, Canada, 2012. “Abstractions for Scalable Multi-core Computing,” Dagstuhl, Germany, 2012. “Randomized Algorithms for Distributed Computing,” Rennes, France, 2014. Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal of Computing, Distributed Computing Journal

Conference reviews: International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2009-2015 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2010-2015 ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2009-2015 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2014, 2015 ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC) 2014, 2015

Advising and Teaching MSR MIT EPFL Jacobs

PhD co-adviser to Enrique Flynn (with Fernando Pedone), University of Lugano Interns: Rati Gelashvili (MIT), Jennifer Iglesias (CMU), Hyun-Jik Kim (Oxford) Guest lecturer for MIT 6.172, Performance Engineering of Software Systems Principal teaching assistant for Concurrent Algorithms, EPFL In charge of tutorials, and of a series of classes on randomized distributed algorithms. Principal teaching assistant for Distributed Algorithms, EPFL

Skills Languages: Hobbies:

English: fluent Italian: working knowledge French: working knowledge German: basic Romanian: mother tongue Spanish: basic Sports (basketball, tennis, target shooting), chess, piano, travelling