Liuba Shrira

Title

Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science

Expertise

Distributed Systems, Reliable and Scalable Storage Systems.

Profile

Degrees

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, M.S.

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	liuba@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2704
Office:	Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 260

Awards and Honors

Lady Davis Fellowship (2010)

ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009)

Invited Speaker, Google, HP Labs, Cornell, CMU, IBM Haifa Research center, Technion Israel, EMC (2006)

2004-2005 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK (2004)

Courses Taught

COSI	31a	Computer System Structures and Organization
COSI	146a	Principles of Computer System Design
COSI	147a	Distributed Systems
COSI	220a	Advanced Topics in Systems

Scholarship

Shrira, Liuba with Winnie Cheng, Dan R. K. Ports, David Schultz, Victoria Popic, Aaron Blankstein, James Cowling, Dorothy Curtis, and Barbara Liskov.. "Abstractions for Usable Information Flow Control in Aeolus." In Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX Annual Tecnical Conference, Boston, MA. June 2012.

Shrira, Liuba, Jose Moreira and Liuba Shrira. Proceedings of SYSTOR 2011, Israeli Conference on Systems and Storage. Proc. of SYSTOR 2011. ACM Digital Library, 2011.

Shrira, Liuba, Hong Tian, Terry Doug. "Exo-leasing: Escrow Synchronization for Mobile Clients of Commodity Servers." Middlweare 2008, Leuven, Belgium. IEEE, ACM, December 2008.

Liuba Shrira, Catharine van Ingen, and Ross Shaull. "Cheap Flights and First Class Seats." Workshop of Storage System Virtualization (SYSTOR 2007),, Haifa, Israel. October 2007.

Ross Shaull, Liuba Shrira nd Hao Xu. "Skippy: a New Snapshot Indexing Method for Time Travel in the Storage Manager." ACM SIGMOD, Vancouver, CA. June 2008.

Ross Shaull, Liuba Shrira and Hao Xu. "Skippy: Enabling Long-lived Snapshots of a Long-lived Past (Poster)." International Conference on Data Engineering, April 2008.

Shrira, Liuba and Siying Dong. "ExoSnap: a Modular Approach to Semantic Synchronization and Snapshots.." Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management, Glasgow, UK. ACM, MArch 31, 08.

James Cowling, Daniel Myers, Barbara Liskov, Rodrigo Rodrigues, and Shrira, Liuba. "HQ: A Hybrid Quorum Protocol for Byzantine Fault Tolerance." Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2006), Seattle. November 2006.

Shrira, Liuba, Hao Xu. "Thresher: an Efficient Storage Manager for Copy-on-Write Snapshots." Usenix 2006, Boston. May 2006.

Hao Xu. TimeBox: a high performance split snapshot archive. Diss. Brandeis University, 2006. Waltham: Computer Science department, 2006.

Sameer Ajmani, Barbara Liskov and Liuba Shrira. "Modular Software Upgrades for Distributed Systems." European Conference on Object-oriented Programming (ECOOP 2006), France. July 2006.