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Overview

Christos Gkantsidis is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of computer science and engineering. Their work spans various subfields, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and electrical and electronic engineering. Additional areas include computer networks and communications, computer graphics and computer-aided design, and information systems.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, such as neural networks and reservoir computing, advanced memory and neural computing, and optical network technologies. Further topics in their portfolio include advanced data storage technologies, computer graphics and visualization techniques, cloud data security solutions, and photonic and optical devices.

Christos Gkantsidis has contributed to multiple recent publications, which include:

  • Analog Iterative Machine (AIM): using light to solve quadratic optimization problems with mixed variables, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass, 2024, ACM Transactions on Storage
  • Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization, 2025, Nature
  • Optics for the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities, 2021, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Frequent publication venues include the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Storage, and Nature. The scientist has maintained ongoing collaborations with multiple coauthors, notably Daniel Cletheroe, James Clegg, Istvan Haller, Francesca Parmigiani, and Hitesh Ballani.

Best Publications

  • Network coding for large scale content distribution

    C. Gkantsidis;P.R. Rodriguez

  • VC3: Trustworthy Data Analytics in the Cloud Using SGX

    Felix Schuster;Manuel Costa;Cedric Fournet;Christos Gkantsidis

  • Random walks in peer-to-peer networks

    C. Gkantsidis;M. Mihail;A. Saberi

  • Cooperative Security for Network Coding File Distribution

    C. Gkantsidis;P. Rodriguez Rodriguez

  • FENNEL: streaming graph partitioning for massive scale graphs

    Charalampos Tsourakakis;Christos Gkantsidis;Bozidar Radunovic;Milan Vojnovic

  • Hybrid search schemes for unstructured peer-to-peer networks

    C. Gkantsidis;M. Mihail;A. Saberi

  • Random walks in peer-to-peer networks: algorithms and evaluation

    Christos Gkantsidis;Milena Mihail;Amin Saberi

  • Scale-up vs scale-out for Hadoop: time to rethink?

    Raja Appuswamy;Christos Gkantsidis;Dushyanth Narayanan;Orion Hodson

  • Spectral analysis of Internet topologies

    C. Gkantsidis;M. Mihail;E. Zegura

  • 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy SP 2015

    Jonathan Woodruff;Peter G. Neumann;Simon W. Moore;Jonathan Anderson

  • Comprehensive view of a live network coding P2P system

    Christos Gkantsidis;John Miller;Pablo Rodriguez

  • Randomized Decentralized Broadcasting Algorithms

    L. Massoulie;A. Twigg;C. Gkantsidis;P. Rodriguez

  • Is high-quality vod feasible using P2P swarming?

    Siddhartha Annapureddy;Saikat Guha;Christos Gkantsidis;Dinan Gunawardena

  • The Markov Chain Simulation Method for Generating Connected Power Law Random Graphs.

    Christos Gkantsidis;Milena Mihail;Ellen W. Zegura

  • Planet scale software updates

    Christos Gkantsidis;Thomas Karagiannis;Milan VojnoviC

  • Horizon: balancing tcp over multiple paths in wireless mesh network

    Božidar Radunović;Christos Gkantsidis;Dinan Gunawardena;Peter Key

  • Conductance and congestion in power law graphs

    Christos Gkantsidis;Milena Mihail;Amin Saberi

  • Anatomy of a P2P Content Distribution system with Network Coding.

    Christos Gkantsidis;John Miller;Pablo Rodriguez

  • On the feasibility of commercial, legal P2P content distribution

    Pablo Rodriguez;See-Mong Tan;Christos Gkantsidis

  • Providing Video-on-Demand using Peer-to-Peer Networks

    Siddhartha Annapureddy;Christos Gkantsidis;Pablo Rodriguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Pablo Rodriguez
Pablo Rodriguez Telefónica (Spain)
Thomas Karagiannis
Thomas Karagiannis Microsoft (United States)
Peter Key
Peter Key Microsoft (United States)
Milan Vojnovic
Milan Vojnovic London School of Economics and Political Science
Antony Rowstron
Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)
Amin Saberi
Amin Saberi Stanford University
Cédric Fournet
Cédric Fournet Microsoft (United States)
Marcus Peinado
Marcus Peinado Microsoft (United States)
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside
Laurent Massoulié
Laurent Massoulié French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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