Prof Liuba Shrira, MIT/Brandeis University, USA
Prof Liuba Shrira, MIT/Brandeis University, USA
Liuba Shrira is an associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brandeis University, and is affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. From 1986 to 1997 she was a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group with Barbara Liskov. She joined Brandeis in 1997. In 2004-2005 she was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Her research interests span aspects of design and implementation of distributed systems and especially storage systems. This includes fault-tolerance, availability and performance issues. Her recent focus is on long-lived transactional storage, time travel (in storage), software upgrades, byzantine faults, and support for collaborative access to long-lived objects