I am a first-year PhD student at the Weizmann Institute of Science, advised by Prof. David Peleg. Previously, I completed my Master’s degree under his supervision, and I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University.

Research Interest

I am primarily interested in fault-tolerant distributed computing. My work explores fresh perspectives on classical problems such as consensus and state machine replication, as well as the design of new foundational computational models (see publications below for examples). My long-term goal is to advance both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of distributed systems, and I am always open to work on exciting new projects in this space.

Publications

Full publications list can be found in my dblp

2025

• Time-Optimal and Energy-Efficient Deterministic Consensus
  Shachar Meir, Hugo Mirault, Peter Robinson, David Peleg · To appear in OPODIS 2025; arXiv

• Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Asynchronous Faulty Settings
  John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg · To appear in OPODIS 2025; arXiv

• Distributed Download from an External Data Source in Faulty Majority Settings John Augustine, Soumyottam Chatterjee, Valerie King, Manish Kumar, Shachar Meir, David Peleg · DISC 2025; arXiv

2024

• Byzantine Resilient Distributed Computing on External Data
  John Augustine, Jeffin Biju, Shachar Meir, David Peleg, Srikkanth Ramachandran, Aishwarya Thiruvengadam · DISC 2024