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Costas Busch
Department Chair
Costas Busch
Department Chair
Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Administration
Department of Computer Science
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Administration
Department of The Graduate School
- KBUSCH@augusta.edu
- (706) 721-0493
- UH113
Education
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Ph.D., Computer Science Brown University, 2000
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MS, Computer Science Brown University, 1998
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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CSCI 8940
Dissertation Research
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CSCI 8250
Quantum computing
Teaching Interests
Discrete Mathematics; Distributed Algorithms; Theory of Computation; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; Computer Organization.
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- A Poly-log Approximation for聽Transaction Scheduling in聽Fog-Cloud Computing and聽Beyond, 2026
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New - Near-Optimal Stability for聽Distributed Transaction Processing in聽Blockchain Sharding, 2026
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New - Transaction Processing in Blockchain Sharding: Current Trends and Future Research Directions, 2025
Journal Article, Academic Journal - Locally Balanced Allocations Under Strong Byzantine Influence, 2024
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New - Sparse Spanners with Small Distance and Congestion Stretches, 2024
Conference Proceeding
Research Interests
Distributed Algorithms; Blockchain Sharding; Communication Algorithms; Algorithmic Game Theory
Department Service
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Faculty Search Committee 2024 - Present
Role: Committee Chair
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Faculty Affairs Committee 2023 - Present
Role: Committee Chair
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Promotion and Tenure Committee 2023 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Committee for Proposal Reviews 2020 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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Faculty Affairs Committee 2022 - 2023
Role: Committee Member
University Service
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Graduate Faculty Council 2023 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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R1 Research Planning Council 2023 - Present
Role: Committee Member
Professional Service
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Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation (Journal) 2020 - Present
Role: Editor, Journal Editor
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MDPI Algorithms (Journal) 2015 - Present
Role: Editor, Journal Editor
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Blockchain 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2023 - 2023
Role: Committee Member
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ECBS 2023 - Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems 2023 - 2023
Role: Committee Member
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EUROPAR 2023 - International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing 2023 - 2023
Role: Committee Member