C. Chris Erway

Hi! I received a PhD from Brown in 2011. My advisor was John Jannotti. Since then I co-founded Tracelytics, and am now Chief Architect of the SolarWinds Monitoring Cloud.

academics, publications

While at Brown I was a member of the Brownie Points project, which aimed to provide incentives and accountability in peer-to-peer systems using secure, anonymous e-cash. Before that I worked on the BlueGene/L systems software team at IBM Research to help build the world's fastest supercomputer.

• As the Brown CS blog noted, our DPDP paper was recently ranked by Influential Security Papers as the 4th most cited paper in computer security in 2009, and the 50th most cited paper since 1981!
• “Dynamic Provable Data Possession.” C. Chris Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia. In ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 17 Issue 4, April 2015. (ACM DL link)
• “Anonymous Accounting for Decentralized Systems,” PhD thesis (pdf)
• “ZKPDL: A Language-based System for Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Electronic Cash.” Sarah Meiklejohn, C. Chris Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Theodora Hinkle, Anna Lysyanskaya. In USENIX Security 2010. (pdf, project page)
• “Dynamic Provable Data Possession.” C. Chris Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia. In ACM CCS 2009. (full version on eprint)
• “MicroID considered harmful (to privacy).” C. Chris Erway. Brown CS technical report, 2008. (PDF, details)
• “Incentivizing Outsourced Computation.” Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya. In NetEcon 2008. (full TR version with proofs: pdf)
• “Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy.” Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya, Eric Rachlin. In WPES 2007. PET Award finalist! (press release, pdf)
• “Designing the Network Layer for End-Host Traffic Engineering,” masters thesis, from 2006. (pdf)
• “Optimization of MPI Collective Communication on BlueGene/L Systems.” George Almási, Charles J. Archer, C. Chris Erway, Philip Heidelberger, Xavier Martorell, Jose E. Moreira, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Yili Zheng. In ICS 2005. (pdf, ACM)
  
• “Efficient Implementation of Allreduce on BlueGene/L Collective Network.” George Almási, Gábor Dózsa, C. Chris Erway, Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow. In PVM/MPI 2005. (doi.org)
  
• “System Management in the BlueGene/L Supercomputer.” George S. Almasi, Leonardo R. Bachega, Ralph Bellofatto, José R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, José G. Castaños, Paul Crumley, C. Christopher Erway, Joseph Gagliano, Derek Lieber, Pedro Mindlin, José E. Moreira, Ramendra K. Sahoo, Alda Sanomiya, Eugen Schenfeld, Richard A. Swetz, M. Bae, G. Laib, Kavitha Ranganathan, Yariv Aridor, Tamar Domany, Y. Gal, Oleg Goldshmidt, Edi Shmueli. In IPDPS 2003. (pdf)
  
• more publications are listed on DBLP, CSB.

other

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