Emin Gün Sirer

Emin Gün Sirer is a Turkish-American computer scientist. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, co-director of IC3.[1] He is known for his contributions to peer-to-peer systems, operating systems and computer networking.

Emin Gün Sirer
NationalityTurkish
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materPrinceton University
University of Washington
Known forSPIN
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisSecure, Efficient and Manageable Virtual Machine Systems. (2002)
Doctoral advisorBrian N. Bershad
Websitewww.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs

Education

Sirer attended high-school at Robert College, received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University,[2] and finished his graduate studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2002 under the supervision of Brian N. Bershad.[3]

Career

Before becoming a professor at Cornell University Sirer worked at AT&T Bell Labs on Plan 9, at DEC SRC, and at NEC.

Sirer is best known for his contributions to operating systems, distributed systems, and fundamental cryptocurrency research. He co-developed the SPIN (operating system),[4] where the implementation and interface of an operating system could be modified safely at run-time by type-safe extension code.[5] He also led the Nexus OS effort, where he developed new techniques for attesting to, and reasoning about, the semantic properties of remote programs.[6] His Karma system, published in 2003, is the first cryptocurrency that uses a distributed mint based on proof-of-work.[7][8]

In conjunction with his research group, he published the paper "Majority is not Enough, Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable" which described the selfish mining attack, an attack on Bitcoin with only 1/3 of total hash power. He also developed Bitcoin-NG, a bitcoin scaling solution, and Bitcoin Covenants, a security solution. He is also co-founder of bloXroute, a company focusing on solving the forgotten "layer 0" networking layer.[9] He is also founder of Ava Labs, a project building the cryptocurrency AVAX, and computing platform using Avalanche Consensus.[10]

Awards

See also

References
  1. Allison, Ian (31 May 2017). "Cornell's blockchain experts tackle off-chain transactions with Intel SGX". International Business Times. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  2. Subbaraman, Nidhi. "Meet The Immigrant Scientists Spooked By A Looming Trump Presidency". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  3. "UW Systems Lab: People". University of Washington. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. Bershad, Brian N.; Chambers, Craig; Eggers, Susan; Maeda, Chris; McNamee, Dylan; Pardyak, Przemyslaw; Savage, Stefan; Sirer, Emin Gün; Sirer, Emin Gun (1994). "SPIN - An Extensible Microkernel for Application-specific Operating System Services". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.47.8338. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System" (PDF). University of California San Diego. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  6. Shieh, Alan; Williams, Dan; Gün, Emin; Fred, Sirer; Schneider, B. (2005). "Nexus: A new operating system for trustworthy computing". ACM Press: 1–9. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.72.340. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Shin, Laura. "What Does Cornell's Emin Gun Sirer See As The Main Security Threats In Cryptocurrency? 'Everything'". Forbes. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  8. "An Interview with Emin Gün Sirer, Hacker and Professor at Cornell". WeTrust. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  9. "Blocked: The Technicalities of Blockchain". Harvard Political Review.
  10. "A Cornell University Crypto Professor Is Launching His Own Coin". Bloomberg. 16 May 2019.
  11. "PopSci's 6th Annual Brilliant Ten". Popular Science. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  12. Steele, Bill. "Cornell Profs Join NSF Campaign for Cybersecurity". Cornell University. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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