Mohammad Sadoghi is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University
of California, Davis. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. Prior to
joining academia, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center for nearly
four years. He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen from the
Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto in 2013. He was the recipient of the
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2006-2007) and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
(2007-2008, 2009-2011).
Broadly speaking, Professor Sadoghi's research spans all facets of secure and massive-scale
data management. At UC Davis, he leads the ExpoLab research group with the aim to pioneer a
new exploratory data platform—referred to as ResilientDB Blockchain Fabric—a distributed ledger that unifies secure
transactional and real-time analytical processing, all centered around a democratic and
decentralized computational model. His research on blockchain has received press coverage
extensively and covered by Advancements TV - CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Market Insider, Crypto Media,
Times Union, WBOC TV/Radio, Davis Enterprise, CoinDesk.
Professor Sadoghi has over 100 publications in leading database conferences/journals (including SIGMOD, VLDB,
ICDE, EDBT, TODS, and TKDE) and 34 filed U.S. patents. His SIGMOD'11 paper
“BE-Tree: an index structure to efficiently match Boolean expressions over high-dimensional discrete space” was awarded
EPTS Innovative Principles Award; his paper
“GPX-Matcher: a generic Boolean predicate-based XPath expression matcher” was selected as one of the
Best EDBT Papers in 2011; his paper
"Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions through Large-Scale Similarity-Based Link Prediction" won the
Best In-Use Paper Award at ESWC'16; his paper
"QueCC: A Queue-oriented, Control-free Concurrency Architecture" won the
Best Paper Award at Middleware'18;
his paper "Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust!" won the
Best Paper Award at EuroSys'23; and
his paper "The Bedrock of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Unified Platform for BFT Protocols Analysis, Implementation, and Experimentation"
won the Outstanding Paper Award at NSDI'24.
He has presented a tutorial at ICDE'16 on “Accelerating Database Workloads by Software-Hardware-System Co-design",
and two blockchain-related tutorials at ACM Middleware in 2018 and 2019, "Blockchain Landscape and AI
Renaissance: The Bright Path Forward." and "An In-Depth Look of BFT Consensus in Blockchain: Challenges
and Opportunities", respectively. He has co-authored two books as part of Morgan & Claypool Synthesis
Lectures on Data Management, "Transaction Processing on Modern Hardware" and "Fault-tolerant Distributed
Transactions on Blockchain." He has further co-authored a book published by Foundations and Trends® in Databases,
entitled "Consensus in Data Management: From Distributed Commit to Blockchain."
He is serving in the Steering Committee of ACM/IFIP Middleware
and International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain (FAB),
and served as the Lead-Guest Editor for Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases: Special Issue on Blockchain.
He has served as the Program Co-Chair for Middleware 2025, Associate PC Chair for IEEE ICDE 2023;
Program Vice Co-Chair for IEEE ICDCS'21;
Program Vice Co-Chair for IEEE Big Data'21;
General Chair of FAB'21;
PC Co-Chair for ACM DEBS'20;
General Co-chair of ACM/IFIP Middleware'19;
Workshop/Tutorial Co-Chairs of ACM/IFIP Middleware'18; and
PC Chair (Industry Track) for ACM DEBS'17,
co-chaired a new workshop at ICDE'17 entitled
"Active:
First International Workshop on Data Management on Virtualized Active Systems" (and again at ICDE'18,
ICDE'19, ICDE'20, and ICDE'21), and co-chaired a new workshop at DEBS'17 entitled
"First International Workshop on Events Meet Processes".
He co-chaired the
Doctoral
Symposium and "Active: Second
International Workshop on Active Middleware on Modern Hardware" at
ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware'17.
Furthermore, he has served as the Area Editor for Transaction Processing in Encyclopedia
of Big Data Technologies by Springer. He has served as
the publicity co-chair of ACM DEBS (2015-16). He regularly serves on the program committee of SIGMOD,
VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, IJCAI, ICDCS, ECOOP, ICSOC, DEBS, and ADMS; and has been invited reviewers for
TKDE and TPDS.
I am always looking for motivated and creative
students and postdoctoral fellows to push the boundary of distributed
database and blockchain systems. If you are interested, please email me a brief summary of your
qualifications and research interests.
