[1] Prior to joining Cornell, he was a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the holder of the Endowed Professorship #5 at the University of Texas at Austin.
His research focuses on distributed systems and dependability.
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2010[2] and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers since 2016.
[3] In May 2024, Alvisi was named the chair of Cornell's Department of Computer Science.
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