Mohammad Sadoghi is an Assistant 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 70 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 EDBT'11 paper, “GPX-Matcher: a generic Boolean predicate-based XPath expression matcher”,
was selected as one of the best EDBT papers in 2011; his ESWC'16 paper entitled "Predicting Drug-Drug
Interactions through Large-Scale Similarity-Based Link Prediction" won the Best In-Use Paper Award; and his
Middleware'18, "QueCC: A Queue-oriented, Control-free Concurrency Architecture", won the Best Paper Award.
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 a book on "Transaction Processing on Modern
Hardware" as part of Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management. Currently, he is co-authoring
a book entitled "Fault-tolerant Distributed Transactions on Blockchain" also
as part of Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management.
He is serving as the General Co-chair of ACM/IFIP
Middleware'19; serving as PC Co-Chair for ACM DEBS'20; served as Workshop/Tutorial Co-Chairs of ACM/IFIP Middleware'18;
served as the 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, and ICDE'20), and co-chaired a new workshop at DEBS'17 entitled
"First International Workshop on Events Meet Processes".
Currently, 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 looking for motivated and creative
PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to push the boundary of
database systems. If you are interested, please email me a brief summary of your
qualifications and research interests.
