2026 Lorenzo Alvisi: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	52	4997	4860	2322	2243	130	14735

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to reliable distributed systems
2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing, bridging theory and practice.
2001 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lorenzo Alvisi is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed to the field of computer science with a focus on distributed systems and fault tolerance. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, history, computational theory and mathematics, and information systems.

The scientist's main research areas include:

Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Cryptography and data security
Computability, logic, and AI algorithms
Service-oriented architecture and web services
Cognitive functions and memory
Historical studies and socio-cultural analysis
French historical and cultural studies

Lorenzo Alvisi has published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
Esprit

Among their recent papers are:

"Les Sardines et l'enthousiasme de la gauche" (2020), published in Esprit
"Gorilla: Safe Permissionless Byzantine Consensus" (2023), published in Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
"Autobahn: Seamless high speed BFT" (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"A Benchmark Framework for Byzantine Fault Tolerance Testing Algorithms (Tool Paper)" (2025), published in Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
"On Fair Ordering and Differential Privacy" (2025), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

Ittai Abraham
Robbert van Renesse
Shir Cohen
Guy Golan Gueta
Dahlia Malkhi

Lorenzo Alvisi's career recognitions include:

IEEE Fellow (2016) for contributions to reliable distributed systems
ACM Fellow (2010) for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing, bridging theory and practice
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2001)

Best Publications

A survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-passing systems

E. N. (Mootaz) Elnozahy;Lorenzo Alvisi;Yi-Min Wang;David B. Johnson

2577
Citations
Modeling the effect of technology trends on the soft error rate of combinational logic

P. Shivakumar;M. Kistler;S.W. Keckler;D. Burger

2015
Citations
Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzantine fault tolerance

Ramakrishna Kotla;Lorenzo Alvisi;Mike Dahlin;Allen Clement

1250
Citations
Depot: Cloud Storage with Minimal Trust

Prince Mahajan;Srinath Setty;Sangmin Lee;Allen Clement

799
Citations
Fast Byzantine Consensus

J.-P. Martin;L. Alvisi

527
Citations
Making Byzantine fault tolerant systems tolerate Byzantine faults

Allen Clement;Edmund Wong;Lorenzo Alvisi;Mike Dahlin

527
Citations
Separating agreement from execution for byzantine fault tolerant services

Jian Yin;Jean-Philippe Martin;Arun Venkataramani;Lorenzo Alvisi

472
Citations
BAR fault tolerance for cooperative services

Amitanand S. Aiyer;Lorenzo Alvisi;Allen Clement;Mike Dahlin

408
Citations
Message logging: pessimistic, optimistic, causal, and optimal

L. Alvisi;K. Marzullo

346
Citations
Upright cluster services

Allen Clement;Manos Kapritsos;Sangmin Lee;Yang Wang

309
Citations
BAR gossip

Harry C. Li;Allen Clement;Edmund L. Wong;Jeff Napper

308
Citations
SoK: The Evolution of Sybil Defense via Social Networks

L. Alvisi;A. Clement;A. Epasto;S. Lattanzi

235
Citations
All about Eve: execute-verify replication for multi-core servers

Manos Kapritsos;Yang Wang;Vivien Quema;Allen Clement

218
Citations
Minimal Byzantine Storage

Jean-Philippe Martin;Lorenzo Alvisi;Michael Dahlin

213
Citations
An analysis of communication induced checkpointing

L. Alvisi;E. Elnozahy;S. Rao;S.A. Husain

213
Citations
Wrapping server-side TCP to mask connection failures

L. Alvisi;T.C. Bressoud;A. El-Khashab;K. Marzullo

190
Citations
Volume leases for consistency in large-scale systems

Jian Yin;L. Alvisi;M. Dahlin;C. Lin

167
Citations
Message logging: pessimistic, optimistic, and causal

L. Alvisi;K. Marzullo

165
Citations
Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols

Lorenzo Alvisi;Thomas Charles Bressoud;Ayman M. El-Khashab;Phoebe Kay Weidmann

162
Citations
The cost of recovery in message logging protocols

S. Rao;L. Alvisi;H.M. Vin

149
Citations
Correction to "Fast Byzantine Consensus"

Jean-Philippe Martin;Lorenzo Alvisi

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Dahlin The University of Texas at Austin

Keith Marzullo University of Maryland, College Park

Harrick M. Vin Tata Consultancy Services Venture

Ozalp Babaoglu University of Bologna

Arun Iyengar Cisco

Calvin Lin The University of Texas at Austin

Dahlia Malkhi Diem Association

Idit Keidar Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Michael K. Reiter Duke University

Arun Venkataramani University of Massachusetts Amherst

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