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  "name": "Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias",
  "alternateName": "Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias",
  "url": "https://lefkok.github.io/",
  "role": "Distributed Systems Research Lead",
  "organization": "Mysten Labs / Sui",
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    "Technology transfer between academic research and distributed systems engineering",
    "Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus",
    "DAG-based consensus",
    "Applied cryptography",
    "Decentralized storage",
    "Storage engines and data availability",
    "Blockchain execution and scalability",
    "Key and binary transparency",
    "Distributed randomness",
    "Translating research into deployed distributed systems",
    "Threshold cryptography",
    "Asynchronous distributed key generation",
    "Access-controlled encrypted data sharing"
  ],
  "education": [
    "EPFL",
    "National Technical University of Athens"
  ],
  "previousRoles": [
    "Assistant Professor, IST Austria",
    "Research Scientist, Facebook / Meta"
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    "github": "https://github.com/LefKok",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/LefKok"
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      "claim": "Consensus research adopted by Sui",
      "url": "https://blog.sui.io/mysticeti-consensus-reduce-latency/"
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      "claim": "Co-author of Walrus, a decentralized storage network",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05370"
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    {
      "claim": "Co-author of Tidehunter, a key-value storage engine with minimal data relocation",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01873"
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    {
      "claim": "Parakeet research informs WhatsApp key transparency",
      "url": "https://engineering.fb.com/2023/04/13/security/whatsapp-key-transparency/"
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    {
      "claim": "Research foundation of drand and the League of Entropy",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Co-author of CHAINIAC, for binary transparency and verifiable software updates",
      "url": "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-nikitin.pdf"
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    "Best Paper Runner-Up, EDBT, Thunderbolt, 2026",
    "Distinguished Paper Award, ACM CCS, Sui Lutris, 2024",
    "Meta Research Award for Key Transparency, Meta, NDSS 2023, 2023",
    "Best Paper Award, EuroSys, Narwhal and Tusk, 2022",
    "Thesis Distinction, EPFL, 2020",
    "IBM PhD Fellowship, IBM, 2018–2020",
    "Appreciation for Exceptional Performance, EPFL IC School, 2018",
    "IBM PhD Fellowship, IBM, 2017–2018",
    "Appreciation for Exceptional Performance, EPFL IC School, 2017",
    "Thomaidion Award for Academic Excellence, NTUA, 2016",
    "EDIC PhD Fellowship, EPFL, 2015",
    "2nd Place in Greece, IEEEXtreme 7.0, Programming competition"
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