RESEARCH FELLOW IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

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An exciting position for a Research fellow in Distributed Computing has arisen in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. This is a part time (18 hours/week) fixed term contract up to February 2027.
The post holder will undertake research in next-generation state-machine replication protocols for blockchains to fulfil the objectives of the UKRI REDONDA project under the supervision of Prof Gregory Chockler (principal investigator) and Prof Brijesh Dongol (co-investigator).
You will be responsible for undertaking a range of research activities within a broad area of Byzantine fault-tolerant protocols for state-machine replication and consensus, assuming responsibility for developing, evaluating, and verifying new consensus protocols within a data centre that take advantage of modern hardware technologies, such as Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), and non-volatile byte-addressable memory (NVM). The work will be carried out in consultation with the research award holders (Prof Chockler and Prof Dongol) as well as other members of the REDONDA consortium. This may include developing algorithms under abstract computational models, verifying their correctness, and evaluating their performance both analytically and experimentally. The experimental work will be based on the RDMA/TEE/NVM testbed hosted by the Centre for Computer Science.