Dwight Makaroff

Dwight Makaroff is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He leads the DISCUS research group, focusing on distributed systems, networking, and performance analysis. Makaroff holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (1998), an M.Sc. (1988), and a B.Comm. (1985) from the University of Saskatchewan.

Research Interests:

• Distributed Data Processing & Hadoop
• Network Support for Multiplayer Games
• Information-Centric Networking
• Energy Efficiency in Mobile Devices
• Multicore Architectures
• Wireless Network Security
• Sensor Networks & Data Aggregation

Teaching: Courses include Operating Systems Principles, Topics in Parallel & Distributed Systems, and advanced systems courses. He coordinated the ACM ICPC programming contest teams for over a decade.

Committees:

• Graduate Committee Chair (2013-2015)
• University Council Member (2006-2014)
• Program Committee roles at IEEE/ACM conferences (IPCCC, CASCON, etc.)

Recent Research Highlights:

• IoT security via blockchain
• Wearable device communication challenges
• Caching strategies for information-centric networks