mpa139 · calamandrei · Nov 11, 2018 · Nov 11, 2018 · Nov 11, 2018 · Nov 11, 2018
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-- name: Gijsbert Verdoes
-  photo: verdoes.jpg
-  duration: In the Allan Lab 2015 - 2018, now Project manager at the FMD
-  info: Fine mechanical engineer associated with the FMD working in our group
-  email: verdoes@fmd.physics.leidenuniv.nl
+- name: Cong Ding
+  photo: Cong.jpg
+  info: Building a Scalable Shared Log
+  now: Confluent
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: UT Austin
+
+- name: Natacha Crooks
+  photo: Natacha.jpg
+  info: <a href='https://nacrooks.github.io/bibliography/publications/thesis.pdf'>A client-centric approach to transactional datastores</a>
+  now: UC Berkeley
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: UT Austin
+
+- name: Chunzhi Su, Ph.D. 2018
+  photo: Chunzhi.jpg
+  info: Bringing Modular Concurrency Control to the Next Level, UT Austin
+  now: Google
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
+
+- name: Trinabh Gupta, Ph.D. 2017
+  photo: Trinabh.jpg
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/63351/GUPTA-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y'>Toward practical and private online services</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Assistant Processor, UC Santa Barbara
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: No idea
+
+- name: Chao Xie, Ph.D. 2016
+  photo: chao.jpg
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/42014/XIE-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y'>High Performance Transactional Storage</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Google
   number_educ: 1
   education1: Leidse instrumentmakers School
-  education2:
-  education3:
-  education4:
+
+- name: Manos Kapritsos, Ph.D. 2014
+  photo: mk.png
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/28366/KAPRITSOS-DISSERTATION-2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y'>Replicating Multithreaded Services</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
+
+- name: Yang Wang, Ph.D. 2014
+  photo: Yang.jpg
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/28370/WANG-DISSERTATION-2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y'>Separating Data from Metadata for Robustness and Scalability</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Tsinghua University
+
+- name: Edmund Wong, Ph.D. 2013
+  photo: Ed.jpeg
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/21358/WONG-DISSERTATION-2013.pdf?sequence=1'>Raising the BAR in Dependable Cooperative Services</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Cisco Meraki
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Carnegie Mellon University
+
+- name: Allen Clement, Ph.D. 2010
+  photo: Allen.jpg
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2359/CLEMENT-DISSERTATION.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y'>UpRight Fault Tolerance</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Google
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Princeton University
+
+- name: Harry C. Li, Ph.D. 2009
+  photo: Harry.jpg 
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/29627/lih92313.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y'>Robust Peer-to-Peer Systems</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Independent Consultant
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Brown University
+
+- name: Jeff Napper, Ph.D. 2008
+  photo: Jeff.jpg 
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/3966/napperj20737.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y'>Robust Multithreaded Applications</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Cisco
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: UT Austin
+
+- name: Jean-Philippe Martin, Ph.D. 2006
+  photo: jp.jpg 
+  info: <a href='https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/2828/martinj80831.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y'>Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Beyond</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Google
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: EPFL
+
+- name: Jian Yin, Ph.D. 2003
+  photo: rock.jpg 
+  info: Volume Leases - A Scalable Cache-Consistency Framework, UT Austin
+  now: Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: No Idea
+
+- name: Evelyn Tumlin Pierce, 2000
+  photo: Lyn.jpg 
+  info: <a href='https://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/techreports/tr01-07.ps.gz'>Self-Adjusting Quorum Systems for Byzantine Fault Tolerance</a>, UT Austin
+  now:
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: Princeton
+
+- name: Sriram Rao, Ph.D. 1999
+  photo: Sriram.jpg 
+  info: <a href='https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c431/898aad2b2020f0c5e51b22faae1d13a57724.pdf'>Egida - A Toolkit for Low-Overhead Fault Tolerance</a>, UT Austin
+  now: Facebook
+  number_educ: 1
+  education1: No idea
+
diff --git a/_data/news.yml b/_data/news.yml
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-- date: 08. October 2018
-  headline: "We discovered charge trapping in a high-Tc superconductor! Publication in <a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0300-z'>Nature Physics</a>. <img src='/images/pubpic/Pub_BCl.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
-
-- date: 27. September 2018
-  headline: "Our MHz amplifier for STM is published in <a href='https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5043267'>Review of Scientific Instruments</a>. <img src='/images/newspic/amp.PNG' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
-
-- date: 16. May 2018
-  headline: "Milan, Koen and Irene talk about superconductivity in <a href='https://youtu.be/hxz22AYUGhM'>Made in Leiden</a>."
-
-- date: 4. May 2018
-  headline: "Welcome Ram!"
-
-- date: 5.-9. March 2018
-  headline: "Irene and Milan are at the March Meeting (Talk <a href='http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR18/Session/E45.11'>Tue 10am, session E45</a>)"
-
-- date: 27. December 2017
-  headline: "The smart tips are <a href='https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08620.pdf'> on arXiv!</a> A collaboration with the <a href='http://groeblacherlab.tudelft.nl/'>Gröblacher Lab</a> at TU Delft. Stay tuned. <img src='/images/newspic/SmartTip.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
-
-- date: 13. November 2017
-  headline: "<a href='http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/content/pdf/2190-4286-8-238.pdf'> New paper</a> published in collaboration with the group of Jan van Ruitenbeek"
-
-- date: 10. November 2017
-  headline: "Doohee makes the third place at the <a href='https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/11/sander-blok-wins-lion-image-award-2017'>LION Image Award</a>. <img src='/images/newspic/doohee_prize.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
+- date: 9. Aug 2021
+  headline: "This has been a banner year for our group at SOSP: we contributed to three papers! It looks like we really earned all that ice cream... <br><br>
 
-- date: 9. October 2017
-  headline: "We contributed to Miguel and Jan's  <a href='https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.134507'>new paper</a>.  "
-
-- date: 12. August 2017
-  headline: "<a href='https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/08/two-erc-grants-for-leiden-physics'>We got an ERC starting grant</a>."
-
-- date: 10. August 2017
-  headline: "Our paper is published in <a href='https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.3.2.010/pdf'>SciPost Physics</a>."
-
-- date: 17. - 21. July 2017
-  headline: "<a href='https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2017/07/milan-allan-wins-bryan-r.-coles-prize'>Milan wins the Bryan R. Coles prize</a> at SCES 2017, Prague. Koen received the best poster presentation award.  <img src='/images/newspic/scesprizes.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
-
-- date: 17. - 21. July 2017
-  headline: "Koen, Maarten and Milan will be at SCES 2017, Prague. Come check out our posters on Tuesday&Thursday and talk on Thursday!"
-
-- date: 18. June 2017
-  headline: "<b>Paper on poor electronic screening published in  <a href='https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235141'>  PRB</a> as Editors' selection! </b>"
-
-- date: 15. May 2017
-  headline: Welcome Doohee!
-
-- date: 13. - 17. March 2017
-  headline: Koen & Irene give talks at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans.
-
-- date: 27. January - 3. March 2017
-  headline: "We are looking forward to co-hosting <a href='http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/877/info.php3?wsid=877&venue=Oort'>the workshop on unconventional superconductivity</a> at the Lorentz center. <img src='/images/newspic/LCposter.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
-
-- date: 17-18. January 2017
-  headline: Irene, Koen, Maarten and Milan will be at Physics@Veldhoven 2017. (Talk at PT6.1 and poster at P9.022).
-
-- date: 25. November 2016
-  headline: "We are part of a newly granted <a href='https://www.fom.nl/en/research/research-programmes/general-information//'>Vrije Programma</a> on strange metals, together with the groups of <b> Hussey, Golden, vHeumen, Zaanen, Schalm, Stoof and Vandoren</b>, see <a href='https://www.fom.nl/en/news/press-releases/2016/11/21/fom-awards-15-1-million-euros-to-highly-promising-research/'>press release</a>. We also got a <a href='https://www.fom.nl/en/news/press-releases/2016/11/18/28634/'>Projectruimte</a>."
+  Florian joined forces with Matt and Yunhao (not to mention Lorenzo and Natacha, now at Berkeley) to produce 'Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions)'; <br><br>
+
+  Sowmya and Matt were first joint authors in a collaboration with researchers at MSR that produced 'PRISM: Rethinking the RDMA Interface for Distributed Systems'; <br><br>
+
+  and Matt (he again!) co-authored 'Regular Sequential Serializability and Regular Sequential Consistency' with friends at Princeton."
+
+- date: 14. May 2021
+  headline: "Nothing like a ridiculous amount of Cornell ice cream after an SOSP push. And it is nice to finally be together! <img src='/images/pubpic/AC51B6B0-ECEF-44FE-81DC-125CB78DCD8E_1_105_c.jpeg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' />" 
 
-- date: 19. September 2016
-  headline: "<b> Our first paper from Leiden is <a href='http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3894.html'>online at Nature Physics</a>! </b><img src='/images/newspic/NewsNP.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' /> "
+- date: 27. April 2021
+  headline: "Natacha wins honorable mention for the  SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation <a href='https://nacrooks.github.io/bibliography/publications/thesis.pdf'> 'A Client-Centric Approach to Transactional Datastores' </a>. We now want Natacha to win an Oscar--we won't settle for anything less."
 
-- date: 12. September 2016
-  headline: Koen is at Correl16, Julich.
+- date: 22. April 2021
+  headline: "Yunhao receives the 2021 Facebook fellowship! This year, 26 are selected from 2,163 world-wide candidates according to <a href='https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/04/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-2021-facebook-fellowship-awards/'> the announcement</a>."
 
-- date: 01. July 2016
-  headline: Milan is at the strongly correlated electron GRC 2016.
+- date: 9. November 2020
+  headline: "Cong successfully defends his dissertation 'Building a Scalable Shared Log'. Here is Cong writing his name on the SysLab Wall of Fame with Robbert and Lorenzo trying to get some air time too <img src='/images/pubpic/IMG_20201109_141539904.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' /> and here is Dr. Ding after doing the deed <img src='/images/pubpic/IMG_20201109_141617669.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' /> Congratulations!"
 
-- date: 24. June 2016
-  headline: Felix Baumberger is visiting.
+- date: 5. November 2020
+  headline: "Natacha wins the  SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation <a href='https://nacrooks.github.io/bibliography/publications/thesis.pdf'> 'A Client-Centric Approach to Transactional Datastores' </a>. Awesome, Natacha!"
 
-- date: 17. June 2016
-  headline: Irene is at SNS2016.
+- date: 4. November 2020
+  headline: "Yunhao and Lorenzo win the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI for their paper <a href='https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/zhang-yunhao'> 'Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy', joint work with colleguaes at MSR </a>. Here is Yunhao giving the talk at OSDI: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2wVye5FCS8'> <img src='/images/pubpic/yunhao_osdi.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' /> </a>"
 
-- date: 28. April 2016
-  headline: <b> Our results on the Mott & pseudo gap physics posted on <a href='http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08343'>arXiv</a> ! </b>
+- date: 28. May 2020
+  headline: "Sowmya, Florian and Yunhao win the CS department distinguished TA award for their contributions while TAing CS4410, our undergraduate OS class."
 
-- date: 14. May 2016
-  headline: Ivan Bozovic is visiting.
+- date: 25. February 2020
+  headline: "Cong presents Scalog at NSDI <a href='https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/ding'>Scalog: Seamless Reconfiguration and Total Order in a Scalable Shared Log</a>"
 
-- date: 17. March 2016
-  headline: Koen, Irene & Vitaly present a poster at Sun Sailing Science.
+- date: 15. December 2019
+  headline: "Natacha successfully defends her dissertation. She will be an assistant professor at UC Berkeley starting at 2020 Fall. Congratulations Natacha!"
 
-- date: 17. Jan 2016
-  headline: "We discover electronic order and pseudogap in a non-cuprate materal! <img src='/images/newspic/order.png' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 192px' />"
+- date: 10. September 2019
+  headline: "Youer receives another one year fellowship from <a href='https://www.initc3.org'>IC3</a> for her work on unveiling the deep connections between Nakamoto's consensus and traditonal distributed consensus protocols."
 
-- date: 01. Jan 2016
-  headline: Welcome Vitaly!
+- date: 6. January 2019
+  headline: "Some things never change. Here is Maffeo Barberini, future Pope Urban VIII, defending his Ph.D. in Pisa. Now, look at the guy on the right, falling asleep... (picture and remark courtesy of Ed Wong, with co-credit to the <a href='http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en.html'>Vatican Museums</a>) <img src='/images/pubpic/IMG_6250.jpg.jpeg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' />" 
 
-- date: 17. June 2015
-  headline: Welcome Kees!
+- date: 10. October 2018
+  headline: "Natacha presents at OSDI <a href='https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/crooks'>Obladi: Oblivious Serializable Transactions in the Cloud</a>."
 
-- date: 17. June 2015
-  headline: "Maarten wins the LION image award! Check out his <a href='https://www.physics.leidenuniv.nl/index.php?id=11573&news=757&type=lion&ln=EN'>submission</a>.<img src='/images/newspic/Contest.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width:192px' />"
+- date: 28. September 2018
+  headline: "Chunzhi successfully defends his dissertation 'Bringing Modular Concurrency Control to the Next Level' at UT Austin. Congratulations Chunzhi! <img src='/images/pubpic/Chunzhidefends.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' />"
 
-- date: 17. June 2015
-  headline: "<b> We win a Vidi grant: 800kEUR to invest in science! (<a href='http://www.news.leiden.edu/news-2015/5-vidis-for-leiden-reserachers.html'>Leiden news</a>, <a href='http://www.fom.nl/live/english/news/archives/pressreleases2015/artikel.pag?objectnumber=297954'>FOM news item</a>) </b>"
 
-- date: 01. Sept 2015
-  headline: "Welcome Koen and Maarten: from Master- to PhD-students"
+- date: 5. September 2018
+  headline: "Youer receives a one year fellowship from <a href='https://www.initc3.org'>IC3</a> for her work on unveiling the deep connections between Nakamoto's consensus and traditonal distributed consensus protocols."
 
-- date: 17. June 2015
-  headline: "We got our commercial STM from <a href='http://www.unisoku.com/'>Unisoku</a>, and we are already busy modifying."
+- date: 14-17. August 2018
+  headline: "Lorenzo lectures at <a href='http://site.uit.no/satis2018/'>SATIS '18: The 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems</a> in Troms&oslash, Norway."
 
-- date: 01. Jan 2015
-  headline: Welcome Irene, Gijsbert & Milan — <b> our lab is officially starting</b>!
+- date: 7-12. August 2018
+  headline: "Lorenzo lectures and Natacha is a panelist at <a href='http://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org/'>The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School</a> in Saarbruecken, Germany. The full Cornell contingent: Drew, Lorenzo, Nate, Tony, Natacha, and Sammy. <img src='/images/pubpic/MPI.jpg' class='img-responsive' style='max-width: 250px' />"