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Costas Busch

Department Chair

Costas Busch

Department Chair

Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

Administration
Department of Computer Science

School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
Department of Computer Science

Administration
Department of The Graduate School

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science Brown University, 2000

  • MS, Computer Science Brown University, 1998

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • CSCI 8940

    Dissertation Research

  • CSCI 8250

    Quantum computing

Teaching Interests

Discrete Mathematics; Distributed Algorithms; Theory of Computation; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; Computer Organization.

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • A Poly-log Approximation for Transaction Scheduling in Fog-Cloud Computing and Beyond, 2026
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • Near-Optimal Stability for Distributed Transaction Processing in Blockchain Sharding, 2026
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • Transaction Processing in Blockchain Sharding: Current Trends and Future Research Directions, 2025
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Locally Balanced Allocations Under Strong Byzantine Influence, 2024
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • Sparse Spanners with Small Distance and Congestion Stretches, 2024
    Conference Proceeding

Research Interests

Distributed Algorithms; Blockchain Sharding; Communication Algorithms; Algorithmic Game Theory

Department Service

  • Faculty Search Committee 2024 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Faculty Affairs Committee 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Promotion and Tenure Committee 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Committee for Proposal Reviews 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Faculty Affairs Committee 2022 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

University Service

  • Graduate Faculty Council 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • R1 Research Planning Council 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

Professional Service

  • Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation (Journal) 2020 - Present

    Role: Editor, Journal Editor

  • MDPI Algorithms (Journal) 2015 - Present

    Role: Editor, Journal Editor

  • Blockchain 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

  • ECBS 2023 - Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

  • EUROPAR 2023 - International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member