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Paper accepted in IEEE CAI 2026
May 2026
The paper “Online Routing Problems under Spatial Locality.” by Swapnil Guragain and Gokarna Sharma is accepted to be published at the 4th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Granada, Spain, May 2026.
Journal paper appeared in Theoretical Computer Science
January 2026
The paper “Faster Leader Election via Mobile Agents and Its Applications.” by Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, Debasish Pattanayak, and Gokarna Sharma appeared in Theoretical Computer Science 1059: 115578, January 2026 (special issue on ICDCIT 2025).
Paper accepted in BRAINS 2025
November 2025
The paper “When Can You Trust Bitcoin? Value-Dependent Block Confirmation to Determine Transaction Finality.” by Ethan Hicks, Joseph Oglio, Mikhail Nesterenko, and Gokarna Sharma is published at the 7th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 1-3, November 2025.
Paper accepted in IEEE NCA 2025
November 2025
The paper “Learning-Augmented Distributed Directories.” by Swapnil Guragain, Bibek Maharjan, Sushant Bhattarai, Gokarna Sharma, and Pavan Poudel is published at the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 25-34, November 2025.
Edited proceedings published (SSS 2025)
October 2025
Dr. Sharma served as an editor of the proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2025), Kathmandu, Nepal, LNCS 16350, ISBN: 978-3-032-11126-5, Springer, October 9-11, 2025.
Paper appeared in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
October 2025
The paper “Dispersion of Mobile Robots on Directed Anonymous Graphs.” by Guiseppe F. Italiano, Debasish Pattanayak, and Gokarna Sharma appeared in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 204: 105139 (16 pages), October 2025.
Journal paper appeared in IJSCA Research
October 2025
The paper “Streamlining Plastic Recycling using Machine Learning-Based Image Classification.” by Rebecca Jacob and Gokarna Sharma appeared in International Journal of Secondary Computing and Applications Research 2(2): 8-13, October 2025.
Paper accepted in DISC 2025
October 2025
The paper “Brief Announcement: Optimal Dispersion Under Asynchrony.” by Debasish Pattanayak, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, and Gokarna Sharma is published at the 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Berlin, Germany, pp. 63:1-63:7, October 2025.
Journal paper appeared in JCSS
September 2025
The paper “Near-Optimal Dispersion on Arbitrary Anonymous Graphs.” by Ajay D. Kshemkalyani and Gokarna Sharma appeared in Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences 152: 103656 (18 pages), September 2025.
Paper accepted in SPAA 2025
July 2025
The paper “Dispersion is (Almost) Optimal Under (A)synchrony.” by Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla, and Gokarna Sharma is published at the 37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 367-381, July 2025.
Paper accepted in NETYS 2025
May 2025
The paper “SmartShards: Churn-Tolerant Continuously Available Distributed Ledger.” by Joseph Oglio, Mikhail Nesterenko, and Gokarna Sharma is published at the 13th International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS), Rabat, Morocco, pp. 146-162, Springer, May 2025.
Journal paper appeared in JCSS
March 2025
The paper “Near-optimal Dispersion on Arbitrary Anonymous graphs” published in Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences Vol. 152, September 2025.
Two Papers accepted in AAMAS 2025
January 2025
The papers “On the Power of Temporal Locality on Online Routing Problems” (Congratulations, Swapnil!) and "Near-Linear Time Leader Election in Multiagent Networks." are accepted to be published at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in May 2025, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Paper accepted in ICDCN 2025
January 2025
The paper “Distributing Context-Aware Shared Memory Data Structures: A Case Study on Singly-Linked Lists." is accepted to be published at the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking in January 2025, Hyberabad, India, ACM.
Paper accepted in ICDCIT 2025
January 2025
The paper “Faster Leader Election and its Applications for Mobile Agents with Parameter Advice" is published at the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology on Distributed Computing and Networking in January 2025, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Springer.
Two Papers accepted in DISC 2024
October 2024
The papers “Agent-based Leader Election, MST, and Beyond” and "Optimal Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Luminous Robots" are published at the 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing in October 2024, Madrid, Spain, LIPIcs 319.
Two Papers accepted in SSS 2024
October 2024
The papers "TRAIL: Cross-Shard Validation for Byzantine Shard Protection" and "Consensus Through Knot Discovery in Asynchronous Dynamic Networks" are published at the The 26th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems in October 2024, Nagoya, Japan, LNCS 14931.
Lab Update: New Ph.D. Student Joins starting Fall 2024
August 2024
Ph.D. student Sushant Bhattarai joined the lab. Welcome, Sushant!
High School Mentoring Update
Fall 2024
Dr. Sharma's High school “Science Experience” mentoring continues with Rebecca Jocob advising from Summer 2024 into Spring 2025.
Invited Talk: ICT Innovations for Nepal
August 10, 2024
Dr. Sharma delivered the invited talk “How can Nepal benefit from innovative practices in ICT?” at the 17th ASNEngr Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina on August 10, 2024.
Invited Talk: Blockchain in Partitionable and Dynamic Networks
May 18, 2024
Dr. Sharma delivered the invited talk “Blockchain in Partitionable and Dynamic Networks” at the 2024 Workshop on Competitive Economics of Cybersecurity, (CEC 2024), Albuquerque, New Mexico on May 18, 2024.
Invited Talk: Are Blockchain Technologies Ready for Quantum Computing Era?
September 30, 2023
Dr. Sharma presented “Are Blockchain Technologies Ready for Quantum Computing Era?” at QBronze115: Quantum Computing an Programming Workshop, Online.
Invited Talk: Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Research
October 8, 2023
Dr. Sharma presented “Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Research” in Nepali Academics in America (NACA), Online.
Leadership Role: TT Faculty Search Committee
2023–2024
Dr. Sharma was appointed Chair of the TT Faculty Search Committee and assumed other leadership roles in conference organizing and program committees.
Lab & Advising Updates
Fall 2023
Ph.D. student Bibek Maharjan joined the lab. Welcome, Bibek! And several undergraduate students, such as Luke Rapaka and Nathan Naples, began their advising period with Dr. Sharma
Another PhD Student Graduates
December 2023
Ph.D. student Shishir Rai graduated. Congratulations, Shishir!
NSF I-Corps Award
July 2022
Dr. Sharma received the NSF I-Corps Award for the project “Concurrency Analyzer” from the University of Akron.
Best Paper Nomination: On Doorway Egress by Autonomous Robots
May 2023
The paper “On Doorway Egress by Autonomous Robots” was nominated for Best Paper at the 37th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023). Congratulations to Dr. Sharma and the entire research team on this outstanding achievement!
Journal Publications (May 2022)
May 2022
“Load Balanced Distributed Directories” and “On Fast Pattern Formation by Autonomous Robots” were published in Information and Computation, and “Efficient Processing of Group Planning Queries Over Spatial-Social Networks” appeared in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Promotion & Graduation
August 2021
Dr. Sharma was promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. Congratulations, Dr. Sharma! And Ph.D. student Pavan Poudel graduated. Congratulations, Pavan!
Lab Update: New Ph.D. Student Joins starting Spring 2021
January 2021
Ph.D. student Swapnil Guragain joined the lab. Welcome, Swapnil!
NSF CAREER Grant Awarded
March 2021
The NSF CAREER grant for “Transactional Memory for Distributed Systems” was awarded to Dr. Sharma. Congratulations, Dr. Sharma!
Service & Awards
2021
Dr. Sharma maintained active service on NSF review panels and committees, was honored with the NSF CAREER Award and the NETYS Best Student Paper Award, and was elected as a Senior Member of both ACM and IEEE.
Course Development
Summer 2019
Dr. Sharma developed new course content for the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency course (CS 4/6/79995) as a special topic course.
Grants & Conference Presentation
June 2019
The NSF “EAGER: Transactional Memory Foundations for Distributed Multiprocessor Systems” grant was awarded to Dr. Sharma.
Invited Talk: Robot Coverage Algorithms under Constraints
October 22, 2018
Dr. Sharma delivered the invited talk “Robot Coverage Algorithms under Constraints” at the Choose Ohio First Research Seminar at Kent State University in October 22, 2018.
Grants Awarded
September 1, 2018
NSF “AF: Small: Collaborative Research: Foundations for Distributed Transactional Memory” and the Spencer Foundation grant for “New Methodology of Virtual Experience in Higher Education STEAM Curriculum” were awarded to Dr. Sharma.
Three Papers Accepted in SSS 2018
August, 2018
Three papers have recently been accepted for presentation in The 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018) to be held on November 04 - 07, 2018 at Tokyo, Japan. The regular paper titled An Adaptive Logging Framework for Persistent Memories was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with his Ph.D. student Pavan Poudel. This paper presents an adaptive logging framework to ensure crash consistency in persistent memory without any a priori knowledge on workload and contention scenario. The adaptive logging framework dynamically switches the execution using either undo logging or redo logging at the runtime with better performance. The other paper titled Load Balanced Distributed Directories was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with his Ph.D. student Shishir Rai and Profs. Costas Busch from Louisiana State University and Maurice Herlihy from Brown University. The other paper titled On Fast Pattern Formation by Autonomous Robots was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Profs. Ramachandran Vaidyanathan and Jerry L. Trahan from Louisiana State University. All the papers are listed in publications section.
Paper Accepted in SRMPDS 2018
June, 2018
A paper has been accepted for presentation in The 14th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS) to be held in University of Oregon, EUgene, OR,USA, on August 13, 2018, in conjunction with the ICPP'18. The paper titled Performance Comparison of NVIDIA accelerators with SIMD, Associative, and Multi-core Processors for Air Traffic Management was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Alfred Shaker and Prof. Johnnie W. Baker from Kent State University and Mike Yuan from Hefei University of Technology.
Paper Accepted in ISMM 2018
April, 2018
A paper has been accepted for presentation in The 2018 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM) to be held on June 18-22, 2018 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, co-located with PLDI 2018. The paper titled Distributed Garbage Collection for General Graphs was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Profs. Steven R. Brandt, Hari Krishnan and Costas Busch from Lousiana State University.
Paper Accepted in UNet 2018
March, 2018
A paper has been accepted for presentation in The 4th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet) to be held on May 02-05, 2018 at Hammamet, Tunisia. The paper titled Approximating Sweep Coverage Delay was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Dr. Jong-Hoon Kim from Kent State University. Dr. Jong-Hoon Kim is also the director of ATR Lab (Advanced Telerobotics Research Laboratory) at kent State University.
Paper Accepted in NETYS 2018
March, 2018
A paper has been accepted for presentation in The 6th International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS) to be held on May 09-11, 2018 at Essaouira, Morocco. The paper titled Complete Visibility for Oblivious Robots in O(N) Time was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Profs. Costas Busch and Supratik Mukhopadhyay from Lousiana State University.
Paper Accepted in APDCM 2018
March, 2018
A paper titled Mutual Visibility for Robots with Lights Tolerating Light Faults has recently been accepted in The 20th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM) to be held on May 21, 2018 in conjunction with IPDPS at Vancouver, Canada.
Papers Accepted in IPDPS 2018
January, 2018
A paper has recently been accepted in The 32th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) to be held on May 21-25, 2018 at Vancouver, Canada. The paper titled Complete Visitability for Autonomous Robots on Graphs was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with his Ph.D. students Aisha Aljohani and Pavan Poudel.
Papers Accepted in ICRA 2018
January, 2018
A paper has recently been accepted in The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) to be held on May 21-25, 2018 at Vancouver, Canada. The paper titled How to Make Fat Autonomous Robots See All Others Fast? was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Profs. Costas Busch and Supratik Mukhopadhyay from Lousiana State University.
Papers Accepted in WALCOM 2018
November, 2017
A paper has recently been accepted in The 12th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2018) to be held on March 03-05, 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper titled Fault-Tolerant Complete Visibility for Asynchronous Robots with Lights under One-Axis Agreement was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with his Ph.D. students Aisha Aljohani and Pavan Poudel.
Papers Accepted in ICDCN 2018
September, 2017
A paper has recently been accepted in The 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) to be held on January 04-07, 2018 in Varanasi, India. The paper titled The Complete Visibility Problem for Fat Robots with Lights was co-authored by Dr. Sharma with Rusual Alsaedi (student at Kent State University) and Profs. Costas Busch and Supratik Mukhopadhyay from Lousiana State University.