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Adam Godel wins the Student Research Competition at SOSP’26
Congratulations to Adam Godel for winning 1st place at the Student Research Competition (undergraduate category) that took place at SOSP'26! Adam presented his research project on closing the data alignment gap in secure analytics systems. Recent systems, like ORQ (SOSP’25), CryptDough (SOSP’26) and others, have made secure collaborative analytics systems both... More
Hiring Two Postdoctoral Researchers
We are hiring two postdoctoral researchers at Boston University to work at the intersection of systems and applied cryptography. 🔐 About the role We are building secure and scalable computing infrastructure using secure multiparty computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and trusted execution environments (TEEs). We seek candidates who combine strong foundations... More
Paper accepted at NSDI’27
Our paper "Koala: Non-disruptive Reconfiguration for Long-running Stateful Dataflows" was just accepted at USENIX NSDI'27! Koala is a novel reconfiguration protocol for distributed dataflow systems that retains the operational performance of embedded-state architectures while matching the disruption-free adaptability of external-state designs. Unlike prior protocols which relocate all state regardless of whether... More
$1.2M NSF Award for Privacy-Preserving Cloud Analytics Testbed
PI Mayank Varia and co-PIs Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris received 3-year, $1.2M award from the NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program! The project focuses on developing an open-source software platform to enable the deployment of privacy-preserving scientific workflows across both open and commercial cloud infrastructures. To achieve this, the... More
Papers accepted at VLDB’26 and SOSP’26
The paper “CryptDough: A unified analytics engine for secure multiparty computation” by Muhammad Faisal, Alessandra Lanz, Sam Buxbaum, Adam Godel, Vasiliki Kalavri, Mayank Varia, and John Liagouris will appear at SOSP’26. The paper “ConRAD: Conformal Risk-Aware Neural Databases” by Sonia Horchidan, Fabian Zeiher, Xiangyu Shi, Vasiliki Kalavri, Henrik Boström, More
New research award from i-Scale
We have received an i-Scale award for the project Streaming GNN Inference for Real-time Anomaly Detection on Microservice Graphs. The project will explore leveraging Graph Neural Networks to enhance security monitoring for cloud-native microservice environments. Many thanks to the i-Scale Industry Advisory Board!
Extended ORQ paper invited to ACM TOCS
"ORQ: Scaling Complex Multiparty Computations to Large Private Datasets" was invited by ACM TOCS for extended publication through recommendation by the Chairs of SOSP 2025!
John Liagouris receives an Amazon Research Award
John Liagouris received an Amazon Research Award for his proposal "Pushing secure MPC beyond niche applications". Learn more about the program on the AmazonScience website.
John Liagouris receives the NSF CAREER award
John Liagouris has received the NSF CAREER award for his project "CAREER: A Unified Analytics Stack for Secure Computation".
Muhammad Faisal completes Dissertation Prospectus
Congratulations to Muhammad Faisal who successfully completed his Dissertation Prospectus milestone today! We look forward to your defense.