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Costas Busch

Department Chair

Costas Busch

Department Chair

Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

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Department of Computer Science

Administration
Department of The Graduate School

  • KBUSCH@augusta.edu
  • (706) 721-0493
  • UH113

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science Brown University, 2000

  • MS, Computer Science Brown University, 1998

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • CSCI 8940

    Dissertation Research

  • 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

  • Faculty Search Committee 2024 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Faculty Affairs Committee 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Promotion and Tenure Committee 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Committee for Proposal Reviews 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Faculty Affairs Committee 2022 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

University Service

  • Graduate Faculty Council 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • R1 Research Planning Council 2023 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

Professional Service

  • Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation (Journal) 2020 - Present

    Role: Editor, Journal Editor

  • MDPI Algorithms (Journal) 2015 - Present

    Role: Editor, Journal Editor

  • Blockchain 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

  • ECBS 2023 - Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member

  • EUROPAR 2023 - International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing 2023 - 2023

    Role: Committee Member