Hussam Abu-Libdeh

About

I am a second-year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at Cornell University. I work in the distributed systems group and my advisor is Robbert van Renesse. I also collaborate with professors Ken Birman and Hakim Weatherspoon. Last summer I interned at Microsoft Research Labs with researchers Antony Rowstron and Paolo Costa.

I am interested in novel distributed systems and cloud computing research. Previously my work centered around primitives and building blocks, such as multicast and routing protocols, needed for designing data center applications.

I am also broadly interested in other research areas such as mechanisms to provide trust guarantees for web applications users, and providing cloud-computing services on edge machines.

Papers & Posters

Teaching

I like to teach. Luckily our department allows graduate students to teach some short courses.

• In fall 2009, I taught CS 2022; Introduction to C.
• In spring 2009, I taught CS 2026; Introduction to C#.

Miscellaneous

• Co-founded Kindisoft Co. in 2005 where we created obfuscation solutions for Rich Internet Applications (RIA).
  Our company won first place in the First Arab Universities Technology Business Plan Competition organized by ASTF, and second place in the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC), as well as being a top finalist in the Intel+UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition of 2006.
• In Fall 2009 I assumed the czarship of the brownbag talks at Cornell's CS department in a bloodless coup :-p. Here is the brownbag talks schedule.
• In Spring 2009 I maintained the schedule for the distributed systems group talks here.
• eSheet.net is a small web app I built to track shared expenses between roommates and co-workers.
• I blog on computer science topics with my colleague Renato Paes Leme here.