Gregory Chockler

Background

About Gregory Chockler

Gregory Chockler is a Professor in Secure Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Surrey. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003. He was a researcher with the Storage Systems Research group at IBM Research - Haifa during 2002-2003. In 2003, he joined the Theory of Distributed Systems group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab as a postdoctoral associate. He then returned to IBM Research - Haifa as a Research Staff Member in 2005. He joined the CS faculty at RHUL in October 2012, and is with the Department of Computer Science of University of Surrey from 2020. Prof Chockler's research interests span all areas of distributed systems, and in particular, blockchains, cloud computing, fault-tolerance, peer-to-peer computing, and middleware technologies. He regularly publishes and serves on conference organizing committees in these fields. He is an author or co-author of 8 patents, and more than 60 technical papers. His work at IBM was recognized through various corporate awards including 2010 and 2012 Outstanding Technical Accomplishment, 2011 Excellence and Eminence, and 2012 Scientific Accomplishment. He presently serves on the Editorial Board of Information Processing Letters, and was a guest editor of the special issue on Cloud Computing for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). He is a co-founder of the ACM/SIGOPS Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS). Specialties: distributed systems, and in particular, blockchain, fault-tolerance, peer-to-peer computing, distributed middleware, virtualization technologies, cloud computing infrastructure, caching, and functional programming