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D-Index
57
Citations
36975
World Ranking
3720
National Ranking
1775

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Antony Rowstron is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, Computer Networks and Communications, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

The scientist's research topics comprise Phase-change materials and chalcogenides, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, and Cloud Data Security Solutions.

They have contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Analog Iterative Machine (AIM): using light to solve quadratic optimization problems with mixed variables" (2023, arXiv, Cornell University)
  • "Can holographic optical storage displace Hard Disk Drives?" (2024, Communications Engineering)
  • "Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass" (2024, ACM Transactions on Storage)
  • "Holographic Storage for the Cloud: advances and challenges" (2024, ACM Transactions on Storage)
  • "Managed-Retention Memory: A New Class of Memory for the AI Era" (2025, arXiv, Cornell University)

Antony Rowstron's work is published frequently in venues such as ACM Transactions on Storage, arXiv (Cornell University), Communications Engineering, and Nature.

They collaborate regularly with co-authors including Grace Brennan, Greg O'Shea, Jannes Gladrow, Douglas J. Kelly, and Dushyanth Narayanan.

Among the distinctions awarded to Antony Rowstron is the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), received in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

    Antony I. T. Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

    Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure

    M. Castro;P. Druschel;A.-M. Kermarrec;A.I.T. Rowstron

  • SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

  • Secure routing for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Ayalvadi Ganesh;Antony Rowstron

  • Write off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage

    Dushyanth Narayanan;Austin Donnelly;Antony Rowstron

  • Towards predictable datacenter networks

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Thomas Karagiannis;Ant Rowstron

  • PAST: a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

    P. Druschel;A. Rowstron

  • Vigilante: end-to-end containment of internet worms

    Manuel Costa;Jon Crowcroft;Miguel Castro;Antony Rowstron

  • SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure

    Antony I. T. Rowstron;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel

  • Better never than late: meeting deadlines in datacenter networks

    Christo Wilson;Hitesh Ballani;Thomas Karagiannis;Ant Rowtron

  • Squirrel: a decentralized peer-to-peer web cache

    Sitaram Iyer;Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Virtual ring routing: network routing inspired by DHTs

    Matthew Caesar;Miguel Castro;Edmund B. Nightingale;Greg O'Shea

  • Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs

    Dushyanth Narayanan;Eno Thereska;Austin Donnelly;Sameh Elnikety

  • PIC: practical Internet coordinates for distance estimation

    M. Costa;M. Castro;R. Rowstron;P. Key

  • An evaluation of scalable application-level multicast built using peer-to-peer overlays

    M. Castro;M. B. Jones;A.-M. Kermarrec;A. Rowstron

  • SplitStream: High-Bandwidth Content Distribution in Cooperative Environments

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

  • Containment of worms

    Manuel Costa;Miguel Castro;Antony Rowstron;Jon Crowcroft

  • Exploiting network proximity in peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Y. Charlie Hu;Antony Rowstron

  • Decentralized task-aware scheduling for data center networks

    Fahad R. Dogar;Thomas Karagiannis;Hitesh Ballani;Antony Rowstron

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Castro
Miguel Castro Microsoft (United States)
Peter Druschel
Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Thomas Karagiannis
Thomas Karagiannis Microsoft (United States)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Christos Gkantsidis
Christos Gkantsidis Microsoft (United States)
Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa Microsoft (United States)
Richard Mortier
Richard Mortier University of Cambridge
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge
Y. Charlie Hu
Y. Charlie Hu Purdue University West Lafayette
Benn C. Thomsen
Benn C. Thomsen Microsoft (United States)

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