Matej is a distributed systems researcher specializing in Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols. He obtained a Master's degree in computer engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in 2013 and a PhD in distributed systems in 2019, supervised by Prof. Rachid Guerraoui. Before joining Protocol Labs in February 2022, he worked on permissioned blockchain solutions at IBM Research Europe - Zurich.
Matej Pavlovic
Research Scientist
consensuslab
Interests
- Large-scale, dynamic distributed systems
- State machine replication
- (Byzantine) fault tolerance
- Blockchains
- Distributed storage
- Consistency
Education
- PhD in Computer Science - EPFL (2019)
- MSc in Computer Engineering - Technische Universität Wien (2013)
Publications
Mir-BFT: Scalable and robust BFT for decentralized networks
Journal of Systems Research · 2022
State machine replication scalability made simple
EuroSys '22: Seventeenth European Conference on Computer Systems · 2022
Talks
Scalable asynchronous randomized byzantine agreement
Randomness Summit 2023 · 2023
Building modular and scalable BFT consensus using the Mir framework
ConsensusLab Summit · 2022