Reginald Frank

I am a 4rd-year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Natacha Crooks.

My focus is on building real-world distributed systems with strong theoretical foundations. I am a recipient of the Amazon AI Fellowship, and completed a research internship at Amazon under the mentorship of Rebecca Isaacs and Peter Alvaro, investigating metastable failures. Previously, I was a mid-experience software engineer at the unicorn startup Anduril.

Selected Publications

Scrooge: Enabling Replicated State Machines to Communicate Efficiently

Reginald Frank, Micah Murray, Suyash Gupta, Chawinphat Tankuranand, Junseo Yoo, Qibao Xu, Natacha Crooks, Manos Kapritsos

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)

2025
Real Life Is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too!

Reginald Frank, Neil Giridharan, Octavio Lomeli-Castro, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Marcos K. Aguilera, Natacha Crooks

ACM SIGOPS 20th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS)

2025
BA: How Fast Reads Affect Multi-Valued Register Simulations

Soma Chaudhuri, Reginald Frank, Jennifer L. Welch

ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)

2019
BA: A Tight Lower Bound for Clock Synchronization in Odd-Ary M-Toroids

Reginald Frank, Jennifer L. Welch

International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC)

2018

Reginald Frank

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Selected Publications