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1987

Overview

Emin Gün Sirer is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and focuses on research within the field of Computer Science. Their work covers various subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, as well as Management Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Sirer's recent publications demonstrate contributions to both theoretical and applied aspects of their research interests. Notable papers include:

  • "StableFees: A Predictable Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies," 2023, published in Management Science
  • "Blockchain Space Tokenization," 2024, published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "CedrusDB: Persistent Key-Value Store with Memory-Mapped Lazy-Trie," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Measuring Miner Decentralization in Proof-of-Work Blockchains," 2022, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent publication venues reflect an engagement with both formal academic journals and preprint repositories, namely:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Management Science
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

In collaborative efforts, Emin Gün Sirer has commonly co-authored with:

  • David Easley
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Soumya Basu
  • Amani Moin
  • Kevin Sekniqi

This scientific profile outlines a consistent focus on blockchain technologies, data storage, and economic mechanisms related to digital finance and cybersecurity, supported by a substantial record of publications and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Best Publications

  • Majority Is Not Enough: Bitcoin Mining Is Vulnerable

    Ittay Eyal;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system

    B. N. Bershad;S. Savage;P. Pardyak;E. G. Sirer

  • On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains

    Kyle Croman;Christian Decker;Ittay Eyal;Adem Efe Gencer

  • Bitcoin-NG: a scalable blockchain protocol

    Ittay Eyal;Adem Efe Gencer;Emin Gün Sirer;Robbert Van Renesse

  • Majority is not enough: bitcoin mining is vulnerable

    Ittay Eyal;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Meridian: a lightweight network location service without virtual coordinates

    Bernard Wong;Aleksandrs Slivkins;Emin Gün Sirer

  • KARMA : A Secure Economic Framework for Peer-to-Peer Resource Sharing

    Vivek Vishnumurthy;Sangeeth Chandrakumar;Emin Gün Sirer

  • The design and implementation of a next generation name service for the internet

    Venugopalan Ramasubramanian;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks

    Adem Efe Gencer;Soumya Basu;Ittay Eyal;Robbert van Renesse

  • SHARP: a hybrid adaptive routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

    Venugopalan Ramasubramanian;Zygmunt J. Haas;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Experience with an object reputation system for peer-to-peer filesharing

    Kevin Walsh;Emin Gün Sirer

  • System and methods for mapping and searching objects in multidimensional space

    Emin Gun Sirer;Nicole L. Caruso;Bernard Wong;Robert Escriva

  • Path set selection in mobile ad hoc networks

    Panagiotis Papadimitratos;Zygmunt J. Haas;Emin Gün Sirer

  • HyperDex: a distributed, searchable key-value store

    Robert Escriva;Bernard Wong;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Beehive: O(1)lookup performance for power-law query distributions in peer-to-peer overlays

    Venugopalan Ramasubramanian;Emin Gün Sirer

  • Herbivore: A Scalable and Efficient Protocol for Anonymous Communication

    Sharad Goel;Mark Robson;Milo Polte;Emin Sirer

  • SPIN: an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services

    Brian N. Bershad;Craig Chambers;Susan Eggers;Chris Maeda

  • SPIN—an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services

    Brian N. Bershad;Craig Chambers;Susan Eggers;Chris Maeda

  • Octant: a comprehensive framework for the geolocalization of internet hosts

    Bernard Wong;Ivan Stoyanov;Emin Gün Sirer

  • On the need for system-level support for ad hoc and sensor networks

    Rimon Barr;John C. Bicket;Daniel S. Dantas;Bowei Du

  • Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation

    Jennifer Rexford;Emin Gün Sirer

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian N. Bershad
Brian N. Bershad University of Washington
Fred B. Schneider
Fred B. Schneider Cornell University
Robbert van Renesse
Robbert van Renesse Cornell University
Peter Pietzuch
Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London
Susan J. Eggers
Susan J. Eggers University of Washington
Craig Chambers
Craig Chambers Google (United States)
Nate Foster
Nate Foster Cornell University
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Robert Kleinberg
Robert Kleinberg Cornell University
Jonathan Aldrich
Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University

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