Research

Publications

Research spanning distributed systems, cryptocurrency protocols, blockchain networking, and the economics of transaction fee markets. Published in Management Science, Journal of Financial Economics, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CCS, and SIGKDD.

9
Publications
2
Patents
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2023
2023
StableFees: A Predictable Fee Market for Cryptocurrencies
Mechanism design for predictable cryptocurrency fee markets
Soumya Basu, David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Emin Gün Sirer
Management Science, Vol. 69, Issue 11
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2020
2020
Trustless IoT: A Logic-Driven Architecture for IoT Hubs
Soumya Basu, Emin Gün Sirer
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge)
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2019
2019
Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing with Share Recovery in BFT Protocols
Cryptographic secret sharing with recovery for Byzantine fault tolerance
Soumya Basu, Alin Tomescu, Ittai Abraham, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Emin Gün Sirer
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
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2019
From Mining to Markets: The Evolution of Bitcoin Transaction Fees
The economic transition from mining subsidies to transaction fee markets
David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Soumya Basu
Journal of Financial Economics
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2018
2018
Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks
Empirical measurement of decentralization in major cryptocurrency networks
Adem Efe Gencer, Soumya Basu, Ittay Eyal, Robbert van Renesse, Emin Gün Sirer
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
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2017
2017
Enabling Secure and Resource-Efficient Blockchain Networks with VOLT
Srinath Setty, Soumya Basu, Lidong Zhou, Michael L. Roberts, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
Microsoft Research Technical Report
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2017
Effective Evaluation Using Logged Bandit Feedback from Multiple Loggers
Aman Agarwal, Soumya Basu, Tobias Schnabel, Thorsten Joachims
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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2015
2015
Rollback Recovery for Middleboxes
Best Student Paper Award
Justine Sherry, Peter Gao, Soumya Basu, Aurojit Panda, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Christian Macciocco, Maziar Manesh, João Martins, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Luigi Rizzo, Scott Shenker
ACM SIGCOMM
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2015
Problems Before Solutions: Automated Problem Clarification at Scale
Soumya Basu, Albert Wu, Brian Hou, John DeNero
ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S)
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Patents
2020
Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Verifiable Secret Sharing at Constant Overhead
Soumya Basu, Alin Tomescu, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael Reiter, Adrian Seredinschi, Ittai Abraham, Guy Golan Gueta
US10572352B2 · VMware, Inc.
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2020
Heartbeats and Consensus in Verifiable Outsourced Ledgers
Srinath Setty, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Soumya Basu
US10733602B2 · Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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Additional papers can be found on Google Scholar. For research collaboration inquiries — soumya@soumyabasu.com.