Suyash Gupta

Suyash Gupta is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon, where he leads the Distopia Laboratory and co-leads the Oregon Networking Research Group. His expertise lies in distributed systems, databases, blockchain technologies, fault tolerance, and federated learning.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Davis (2022)
• M.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University (2017)
• M.S. (Research) in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Research Focus:

Dr. Gupta’s research is centered on designing efficient distributed, decentralized, and blockchain systems that are resilient to arbitrary failures and can scale across wide-area networks. His work spans consensus protocols, Byzantine fault tolerance, secure transaction processing, and federated learning systems. He has contributed foundational work in permissioned blockchain architectures and fault-tolerant distributed databases.

Scientific Contributions & Awards:

• Best Paper Award, EuroSys 2023
• Distinguished Reviewer Award, SIGMOD 2025
• Best Graduate Researcher Award, UC Davis
• Author of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Transactions on Blockchain, Morgan & Claypool

Teaching & Mentorship:

He currently teaches advanced courses like CS 607: Hot Topics in Systems and CS 451/551: Database Processing. He actively mentors a diverse group of PhD and MS students, including Nihal Balivada, Shistata Subedi, Neil Sharma, and others from institutions like UC Davis and BITS Pilani.

Labs & Teams:

Dr. Gupta leads the Distopia Laboratory at UO and co-leads the Oregon Networking Research Group, both focused on cutting-edge research in distributed systems and secure networked architectures.