Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias

Research lead · Mysten Labs / Sui

Lefteris
Kokoris-Kogias

Distributed systems research & technology transfer

I lead distributed systems research at Mysten Labs / Sui. My work spans theory, protocol design, and implementation, translating between academic research and the realities of building distributed systems that run in production.

Selected research Google Scholar
Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
Research · Engineering · Technology transfer

Research adopted
in practice

SuiConsensusWalrusDecentralized storageWhatsAppKey transparencyCloudflareDistributed randomness

01 / Research in practice

Research in practice.

Selected work, from foundations to implementation.

PILOTFISH · REMORA02

Execution

Pilotfish and Remora scale smart-contract execution across machines within a validator. They address how to turn parallel hardware into practical execution capacity.

Pilotfish · FC 2025Remora · VLDB 2026
Pilotfish paper Remora implementation
PARAKEET · CHAINIAC03

Key & binary transparency

Co-author of Parakeet, which informed WhatsApp’s deployed key transparency system, and CHAINIAC, which makes software updates transparent and verifiable through collective signing and verified builds.

WhatsAppNDSS 2023USENIX Security 2017
WhatsApp deployment CHAINIAC paper

02 / Background

Research &
technology transfer

I work between academic research and distributed systems engineering: identifying the right questions, developing the theory, and translating the results into systems that run in production.

I lead distributed systems research at Mysten Labs / Sui. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at IST Austria and, before that, a Research Scientist at Facebook / Meta. I earned my PhD in Computer Science at EPFL and my MEng at the National Technical University of Athens.

My focus is distributed computing and applied cryptography, with contributions to consensus, execution, storage, transparency, and threshold cryptography.

Students & mentorshipStudents, interns, and postdocs · Shared researchMore on LinkedIn

A path through research & engineering

Mysten Labs / SuiLeading distributed systems research

NOW

IST AustriaAssistant Professor

Facebook / MetaResearch Scientist

EPFLPhD, Computer Science

Selected recognition

  • 2026

    Best Paper Runner-UpEDBT · Thunderbolt

  • 2024

    Distinguished Paper AwardACM CCS · Sui Lutris

  • 2022

    Best Paper AwardEuroSys · Narwhal and Tusk

  • 2020

    Thesis DistinctionEPFL

All awards & honors

03 / Research

DBLP

Publications & research

Distributed computing, consensus, and cryptography.

PODC2021

All You Need is DAG

Idit Keidar, Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Oded Naor, Alexander Spiegelman

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04 / Talks & writing

Talks & writing

Technical talks and writing on research and systems.

Talks & interviews

17 TALKS · 24 APPEARANCES

Selected writing

READ & EXPLORE ↘
2026

Lutris: Safe Composition of Broadcast and Consensus

Decentralized Thoughts 2026

Mysticeti: Revolutionizing Consensus on Sui

Decentralized Thoughts 2025

Mysticeti v2: Faster and Lighter Sui Transaction Processing

Sui 2022

Understanding Blockchain Latency and Throughput

Paradigm 2022

Scaling Blockchains With Hierarchical Consensus

Protocol Labs Research

Contact

lefteris@mystenlabs.com