Activities | Roberto Palmieri | PhD

Activities
University Service
Member of the Greer Scholars Program, which provides funding and a support network for African American and Hispanic students pursuing engineering studies at Lehigh. Member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of the Computer Science and Engineering department at Lehigh Unviersity. Actively advising NSF REU students.
Academic Service
- OPODIS 2022 (PC co-chair) - IEEE ICDCS 2022 (PC member) - IEEE SRDS 2022 (PC member) - ACM SIGOPS EuroSys 2022 (PC member) - ACM PPoPP 2022 (PC member) - IEEE SRDS 2021 (PC co-chair) - PaPoC 2021 (PC co-chair) - USENIX ATC 2021 (PC member) - IEEE/IFIP LADC 2021 (PC member) - ACM SPAA 2021 (Local organizer) - Eurosys 2021 (PC member) - OPODIS 2020 (PC member and Publication Chair) - IEEE NCA 2020 - ACM SPAA 2020 (Local organizer) - ACM PODC 2020 (PC member) - USENIX ATC 2020 (PC member) - ICPP 2020 (PC member) - PaPoC 2020 (PC member) - IEEE NCA 2019 (PC member) - ACM PODC 2019 (sub-reviewer) - IEEE ICDCS 2019 (sub-reviewer) - ACM PaPoC 2019 (PC member) - ACM SYSTOR 2019 (PC member) - PPoPP 2018 (Extended Review Committee) - ACM Eurosys 2018 (sub-reviewer) - PaPoC 2018 (PC member)	- ACM PODC 2018 (PC member) - IEEE NCA 2017 (PC member) - ACM SPAA 2017 (sub-reviewer) - ACM PODC 2017 (sub-reviewer) - PaPoC 2017 (PC member) - ACM SIGPLAN TRANSACT 2017 (PC member) - IEEE DPDNS 2017 (PC chair) - OPODIS 2016 (PC member) - ACM SIGPLAN TRANSACT 2016 (PC member) - IEEE NCA 2015 (PC member) - ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2015 (sub-reviewer) - ACM SIGPLAN TRANSACT 2015 (sub-reviewer) - ACM PODC 2015 (sub-reviewer) - OPODIS 2014 (sub-reviewer) - DISC 2014 (sub-reviewer) - ACM Systor 2014 (sub-reviewer) - Euro-Par 2014 (sub-reviewer) - DEPEND 2014 (PC member) - IEEE CloudComp 2013 (PC member) - IEEE SCC 2013 (PC member) - DEPEND 2013 (PC member) - NCCA 2012 (PC member)
- Journal of Systems Research (JSys) (Area co-chair of Distributed Consensus); - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE); - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC); - IEEE Transaction on Computers (IEEE TC); - IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS); - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC);
Previous Appointments
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, USA (August 2017 - May 2022). Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, USA (July 2014 - August 2017). Post-doctoral Research Associate, Virginia Tech, USA (2013 - July 2014). Post-Doc in Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, "Sapienza", University of Rome, Italy (2012).
Education
PhD in Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, "Sapienza", University of Rome in 2012 Thesis title: "Speculative Protocols for Actively Replicated Transactional Systems" Advisor: Prof. F. Quaglia "Sapienza", University of Rome. External Referees: Prof. Jennifer Lundelius Welch (Texas A&M University, USA) and Prof. Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Swiss). Master degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Rome "Sapienza" in 2008 (grade: 110/110 cum laude) Thesis title: "Modeling And Evaluation Of Relational Dbms Based On Lock Concurrency Control And Non Uniform Data Access Pattern". Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at the Universiy of Rome "Sapienza" in 2006 (grade: 110/110 cum laude) Thesis work: "MicroOpGen tool and developing extensions for DisSimulator , a simulator for PD32 educational-processor".

- Roberto Palmieri, PhD -- he/him/his
  Associate Professor
  Computer Science and Engineering
  Lehigh University
  Building C 338
  phone: +1 (610) 758-3623
  email: "palmieri" at "lehigh" dot "edu"
- Recent News (All News)
  - - I will be the co-chair of the Program Committe of OPODIS 2022 along with Eshcar Hillel. Consider to submit and attend!
    - I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. I'm grateful for the help and support received by many along my journey.
    - Our paper "Bundled References: An Abstraction for Highly-Concurrent Linearizable Range Queries" has been accepted paper at PPoPP 2022. Congrats Jacob!
    - Invited to serve as Program Committee member of SRDS 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
    - Invited to serve as Program Committee member of Eurosys 2022. Consider to submit and attend!
    - Our paper "Rabia: Simplifying State-Machine Replication Through Randomization" has been accepted at SOSP 2021. Congrats to the whole team!
    - I am pleased and honored to announce I have been awarded the NSF CAREER, titled "Distributed Protocols and Primitives Optimized for RDMA Read/Write Operations in Data Management Systems". Abstract available here.
    - Our paper "KVCG: A Heterogeneous Key-Value Store for Skewed Workloads" has been accepted at SYSTOR 2021. Congrats dePaul and Jacob!
    - Our paper "FW-KV: Improving Read Guarantees in PSI" has been accepted at MIDDLEWARE 2021. Congrats Masoomeh!
    - I will be co-charing the Program Committe of SRDS 2021 along with Yvonne-Anne Pignolet. Consider to submit and attend!
    - I will be co-charing the Program Committe of PaPoC 2021 along with Heidi Howard. PaPoC is colocated with Eurosys. Consider to submit and attend!