Kevin Alarcón Negy

Cornell University
Computer Science PhD candidate
Expected graduation: May 2025

kevinnegy@cs.cornell.edu
302 Bill & Melinda Gates Hall







I am a final-year PhD candidate at Cornell University, advised by Adrian Sampson. My research interests encompass operating systems, virtualization, kernels, storage systems, and computer architecture. I previously worked in the field of cryptocurrencies.

I am currently on the market for teaching-focused positions. Please reach out if you have an opportunity to share.

Here is my CV.

Teaching

Instructor of Record - Fundamental Programming Concepts (CS 1109). Cornell University. Summer 2024.

Teaching Assistant - Practicum in Operating Systems (CS 4411). Cornell University. Spring 2024.

Publications

Kevin Alarcón Negy, Tycho Nightingale, Hakim Weatherspoon, Zhiming Shen. Towards Swap-Free, Continuous Ballooning for Fast, Cloud-based Virtual Machine Migrations. In Proceedings of 15th ACM Symposium On Cloud Computing (SOCC), Redmond, WA. Nov. 2024.

Kevin Alarcón Negy, Peter Rizun, Emin Gün Sirer. Selfish Mining Re-Examined. In Proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2020 Twenty-Fourth International Conference, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Feb. 2020. [slides][pdf]

Archive

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Updated as of November 2024.