Provakar Mondal

About Me

I am a final-year PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Eli Tilevich. My research focuses on the intersection of distributed systems, software engineering, and systems for machine learning, especially improving the reliability, interoperability, and performance of replicated data systems and distributed AI models. I also work as a Graduate Application Developer at Virginia Tech's TLOS Division, enhancing the university's Learning Management System by building Agentic workflows and RAG applications. Before joining Virginia Tech, I worked as a Software Engineer at Samsung Research Bangladesh, contributing to the development of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications and improving real-time data synchronization for Samsung Notes. I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Research Interests

Distributed Systems: Data Replication, Middleware, CRDTs, Consistency Models
Software Engineering: Testing, Error Recovery, Refactoring, Interoperability
Systems for ML: Replicating SLMs, Agentic Workflows, RAG Applications

News

[Mar 2026] Our paper BabelRDL got accepted at JPDC 2026. 🎉
[Dec 2025] Presented 3 papers (1 in research track & 2 in DPDS) at Middleware 2025.
[Dec 2025] Awarded NSF travel grant for Middleware 2025 Conference. 🏆
[Dec 2025] Passed my PhD Preliminary Exam and officially a PhD candidate now.
[Nov 2025] Two papers got accepted at Middleware 2025 DPDS Track. 🎉
[Aug 2025] Started working as a Graduate Application Developer at VT’s TLOS Division.
[Jun 2025] Started working as an Adjunct Instructor at VT’s CS Department (Summer 2025).
[Mar 2025] Our paper ER-π got accepted at Middleware 2025 Conference. 🎉
[Aug 2024] Awarded Bitshares Fellowship for research excellence in distributed computing. 🏆
[Dec 2023] Received my MS along the way degree from VT CS. 🎓
[Oct 2023] Our paper Auto-Undo got accepted at IEEE CloudCom 2023. 🎉;
[Feb 2023] Passed my PhD Qualifying Exam and advanced to PhD Candidacy.

Publications

JPDC

Cross-Platform Integration and Extension of Replicated Data Libraries in Distributed Systems

Provakar Mondal and Eli Tilevich

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 213, 2026.

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MIDDLEWARE

ER–π: Exhaustive Interleaving Replay for Testing Replicated Data Library Integration

Provakar Mondal and Eli Tilevich

26th International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE), 2025.

PDF Code Slides Artifacts Available & Functional

MIDDLEWARE

Toward Thorough and Practical Integration Testing of Replicated Data Systems

Provakar Mondal

26th International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE DPDS), 2025.

PDF Code Slides Doctoral Symposium

MIDDLEWARE

Understanding Tradeoffs of Replicated Data Library Integration Strategies in Multilingual Environments

Provakar Mondal and Eli Tilevich

26th International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE DPDS), 2025.

PDF Code Poster

CloudCom

Undoing CRDT Operations Automatically

Provakar Mondal and Eli Tilevich

14th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2023.

PDF Code Slides Short Paper

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
Software Innovations Lab, Virginia Tech
August 2021 – Present

Graduate Application Developer
Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS), Virginia Tech
August 2025 – Present

Adjunct Instructor
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
June 2025 – August 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Fall 2021, 2022, 2024 and Spring 2022, 2025

Software Engineer
Samsung Research, Bangladesh
May 2019 – July 2021

Services

External Program Committee

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2025
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2025
ACM Symposium on Software and Languages (SE/PL) in Education (SPLASH-E) 2023

Awards

NSF Travel Grant: Middleware 2025 Conference
BitShares Fellowship (VT CS): Research Excellence in Distributed Computing (2024–2025)
Bangladesh Government Scholarship: Undergrad (2015–2019) and School (2007–2014)