Boo Thau Loo

RCA Professor

Computer and Information Science

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives

Office: Levine Hall, 605

Research Areas

  • Distributed Data Management Systems
  • Internet-scale Query Processing
  • Implementation of Networked Systems

Awards

2022: Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching

2021: Spira Award for Teaching and Mentoring beyond the Classroom

2020: Best Paper Award, EDBT

2016: Google Faculty Research Award

2012: Best Student Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing

2012: Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award

Projects/Papers

Towards Truly Adaptive Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus
The Use of Crowdfunding and Social Media Platforms in Strategic Start-up Communication: A Big-data Analysis
Distributed Transaction Processing in Untrusted Environments

Students

PhDs:

Chenyuan Wu

Gerald Whitters

Heena Nagda

Bhavana Mehta

Lan Lu

Tao Luo