Hakim Weatherspoon

Hakim Weatherspoon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests cover various aspects of information systems, distributed systems, network systems, and peer-to-peer systems. In these areas, he particularly focuses on fault-tolerance, reliability, security, and performance of internet-scale systems with decentralized – autonomous, federated, multi-organizational, and cooperative – control. 

Weatherspoon received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in the area of secure and fault-tolerant distributed wide-area storage systems. He received a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Washington. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, DARPA Computer Science Study Panel (CSSP), IBM Faculty Award, the NetApp Faculty Fellowship, and the NSF Future Internet Architecture award.

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