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Overview

Boon Thau Loo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, specializing in computer science with a focus on computer networks, information systems, and artificial intelligence. Their work spans various subfields, including software engineering and management information systems.

Their research topics cover multiple areas such as:

  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Cloud Data Security Solutions
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Some of the recent published papers include:

  • "Understanding the effect of data center resource disaggregation on production DBMSs," 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
  • "Qanaat," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "The Use of Crowdfunding and Social Media Platforms in Strategic Start-up Communication: A Big-data Analysis," 2022, International Journal of Strategic Communication
  • "FlexChain," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Mohammad Javad Amiri, Chenyuan Wu, Ryan Marcus, Yuepeng Wang, and Qizhen Zhang.

Publication venues where they have contributed more extensively include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
  • International Journal of Strategic Communication
  • Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

In addition to journal and conference papers, they have also published a book titled Logic, Language, and Security in 2020 with Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Querying the internet with PIER

    Ryan Huebsch;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Nick Lanham;Boon Thau Loo

  • Complex Queries in DHT-based Peer-to-Peer Networks

    Matthew Harren;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Ryan Huebsch;Boon Thau Loo

  • Implementing declarative overlays

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Petros Maniatis

  • On the feasibility of peer-to-peer web indexing and search

    Jinyang Li;Boon Thau Loo;Joseph M. Hellerstein;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • Declarative routing: extensible routing with declarative queries

    Boon Thau Loo;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Ion Stoica;Raghu Ramakrishnan

  • Declarative networking: language, execution and optimization

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Minos Garofalakis

  • Adaptive precision setting for cached approximate values

    Chris Olston;Boon Thau Loo;Jennifer Widom

  • The case for a hybrid p2p search infrastructure

    Boon Thau Loo;Ryan Huebsch;Ion Stoica;Joseph M. Hellerstein

  • The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor

    Ryan Huebsch;Brent N. Chun;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Boon Thau Loo

  • Declarative Networking

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Minos Garofalakis

  • Efficient querying and maintenance of network provenance at internet-scale

    Wenchao Zhou;Micah Sherr;Tao Tao;Xiaozhou Li

  • Datalog and emerging applications: an interactive tutorial

    Shan Shan Huang;Todd Jeffrey Green;Boon Thau Loo

  • Enhancing P2P file-sharing with an internet-scale query processor

    Boon Thau Loo;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Ryan Huebsch;Scott Shenker

  • Secure network provenance

    Wenchao Zhou;Qiong Fei;Arjun Narayan;Andreas Haeberlen

  • Network functions virtualization with soft real-time guarantees

    Yang Li;Linh Thi Xuan Phan;Boon Thau Loo

  • Declarative automated cloud resource orchestration

    Changbin Liu;Boon Thau Loo;Yun Mao

  • Taking the Blame Game out of Data Centers Operations with NetPoirot

    Behnaz Arzani;Selim Ciraci;Boon Thau Loo;Assaf Schuster

  • Performance Modeling of MapReduce Jobs in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments

    Zhuoyao Zhang;Ludmila Cherkasova;Boon Thau Loo

  • Datalog and Recursive Query Processing

    Todd J. Green;Shan Shan Huang;Boon Thau Loo;Wenchao Zhou

  • Impact of Path Characteristics and Scheduling Policies on MPTCP Performance

    Behnaz Arzani;Alexander Gurney;Shuotian Cheng;Roch Guerin

  • 007: Democratically Finding the Cause of Packet Drops

    Behnaz Arzani;Selim Ciraci;Luiz Chamon;Yibo Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Haeberlen
Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Zachary G. Ives
Zachary G. Ives University of Pennsylvania
Andre Scedrov
Andre Scedrov University of Pennsylvania
Insup Lee
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan M. Smith
Jonathan M. Smith University of Pennsylvania
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Oleg Sokolsky
Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania

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