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Hakim Weatherspoon

Hakim Weatherspoon

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Computer Science

D-Index
31
Citations
9827
World Ranking
13348
National Ranking
5340

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hakim Weatherspoon is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on computer science, with particular emphasis on computer networks and communications. Their work spans several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, information systems, plant science, and ecology.

They have contributed to topics such as advanced memory and neural computing, interconnection networks and systems, distributed systems and fault tolerance, cloud computing and resource management, advanced data storage technologies, remote sensing in agriculture, and smart agriculture and AI.

Their frequently published research appears in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Global Change Biology

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Hakim Weatherspoon include:

  • "P4xos: Consensus as a Network Service," 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • "Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Ripple: A Practical Declarative Programming Framework for Serverless Compute," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems," 2025, Global Change Biology
  • "Realtime optimization and management system (ROAM): A decision support system for digital agriculture systems," 2024, Smart Agricultural Technology

Their frequent collaborators include Gloire Rubambiza, Phoebe Sengers, Tegan Wilson, Daniel Amir, and Vishal Shrivastav. The collaboration with Gloire Rubambiza is the most frequent, with multiple joint publications.

Hakim Weatherspoon's research intersects technology and agriculture, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach involving both computing systems and plant science. This is evident in their exploration of smart agricultural systems, remote sensing technologies, and digital agriculture infrastructures.

In 2011, they were recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage

    John Kubiatowicz;David Bindel;Yan Chen;Steven Czerwinski

  • Erasure Coding Vs. Replication: A Quantitative Comparison

    Hakim Weatherspoon;John Kubiatowicz

  • Pond: the oceanstore prototype

    Sean Rhea;Patrick Eaton;Dennis Geels;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • RACS: a case for cloud storage diversity

    Hussam Abu-Libdeh;Lonnie Princehouse;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • Efficient replica maintenance for distributed storage systems

    Byung-Gon Chun;Frank Dabek;Andreas Haeberlen;Emil Sit

  • Maintenance-free global data storage

    S. Rhea;C. Wells;P. Eaton;D. Geels

  • The Xen-Blanket: virtualize once, run everywhere

    Dan Williams;Hani Jamjoom;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • P4FPGA: A Rapid Prototyping Framework for P4

    Han Wang;Robert Soulé;Huynh Tu Dang;Ki Suh Lee

  • On the feasibility of completely wirelesss datacenters

    Ji-Yong Shin;Emin Gn Sirer;Hakim Weatherspoon;Darko Kirovski

  • On the feasibility of completely wireless datacenters

    Ji-Yong Shin;Emin Gun Sirer;Hakim Weatherspoon;Darko Kirovski

  • Awarded Best Student Paper! - Pond: The OceanStore Prototype

    Sean Rhea;Patrick Eaton;Dennis Geels;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • Proactive replication for data durability

    Emil Sit;Andreas Haeberlen;Frank Dabek;Byung-Gon Chun

  • Overdriver: handling memory overload in an oversubscribed cloud

    Dan Williams;Hani Jamjoom;Yew-Huey Liu;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things

    Kolbeinn Karlsson;Weitao Jiang;Stephen Wicker;Danny Adams

  • Globally Synchronized Time via Datacenter Networks

    Ki Suh Lee;Han Wang;Vishal Shrivastav;Hakim Weatherspoon

  • The NEBULA Future Internet Architecture

    Tom Anderson;Ken Birman;Robert Broberg;Matthew Caesar

  • Future Directions in Distributed Computing

    André Schiper;Alex A. Shvartsman;Hakim Weatherspoon;Ben Y. Zhao

  • Netbait: a Distributed Worm Detection Service

    Brent Chun;Jason Lee;Hakim Weatherspoon;Brent N. Chun

  • ChunkCast: An Anycast Service for Large Content Distribution.

    Byung-Gon Chun;Peter Wu;Hakim Weatherspoon;John Kubiatowicz

  • P4xos: Consensus as a Network Service

    Huynh Tu Dang;Pietro Bressana;Han Wang;Ki Suh Lee

  • Shoal: A Network Architecture for Disaggregated Racks

    Vishal Shrivastav;Asaf Valadarsky;Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

John Kubiatowicz
John Kubiatowicz University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth P. Birman
Kenneth P. Birman Cornell University
Robbert van Renesse
Robbert van Renesse Cornell University
Mahesh Balakrishnan
Mahesh Balakrishnan Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Ben Y. Zhao
Ben Y. Zhao University of Chicago
Andreas Haeberlen
Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington
David Mazières
David Mazières Stanford University
Byung-Gon Chun
Byung-Gon Chun Seoul National University

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