Isaac Sheff
PHD Candidate
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac Sheff is a PhD candidate and senior research scientist with 15 years of experience designing distributed protocols and algorithms that prioritize strong guarantees, failure tolerance, and real-world applicability across domains from medical privacy to blockchains. His work blends rigorous theory with production-minded implementations—experience that includes experimental sharded blockchains at Oracle Labs and large-scale data systems during a Google internship. Based in New York, he teaches and mentors undergraduates and masters students while pursuing research at Cornell, bringing both pedagogy and hands-on engineering to complex systems. Notably, his background ranges from anonymous communication algorithms developed at Caltech to geospatial services at JPL, reflecting a knack for translating deep research into practical systems.
15 years of coding experience
California Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (73)
python10
ruby10
proto10
microservices10
cpp10
grpc10
java10
rpc10
bazel-rules10
csharp10
game-theory10
grpc-java10
mpc10
php10
secure-computation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
isheff/hetcons
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:185 pushes, 22 branches in 11 months
isheff/coursefinder
Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:51 commits in 1 month
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