About

Reza Farivar is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His educational background includes a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University, an MS in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas focus on systems and networking, with recent courses taught related to cloud computing applications and data mining. He has contributed to the field through his involvement in projects such as the R-Storm paper on resource-aware scheduling in middleware, which was recognized with a Test of Time award at the ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference in 2025.

Research topics

• Computer science
• Parallel computing
• Distributed computing
• Computer security
• Computer network

Frequent coauthors

• Roy H. Campbell

  14 shared

• Ellick Chan

  5 shared

• Nusbaum Kyle

  Yahoo (United States)

  4 shared

• Derek Dagit

  4 shared

• Sanket Chintapalli

  Yahoo (United States)

  4 shared

• Patil Kishorkumar

  4 shared

• Boyang Peng

  Tongji University

  3 shared

• Mirko Montanari

  3 shared

Labs

• Siebel School of Computing and Data SciencePI

Awards & honors

• Test of Time award at the 2025 ACM/IFIP Middleware Conferenc…

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