Kevin Alarcón Negy
Princeton University
Lecturer in Computer Science
kn3469@princeton.edu
039 Corwin Hall
I am a Lecturer (Teaching Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. I earned my PhD at Cornell University advised by Adrian Sampson. My research interests encompass operating systems, virtualization, kernels, storage systems, and computer architecture.
Teaching
Instructor of Record - The Art and Science of Computer Programming (COS 125). Princeton University. Summer 2025.
Teaching Assistant - Practicum in Operating Systems (CS 4411). Cornell University. Spring 2025.
Instructor of Record - Fundamental Programming Concepts (CS 1109). Cornell University. Summer 2024.
Teaching Assistant - Practicum in Operating Systems (CS 4411). Cornell University. Spring 2024.
Publications
Kevin Alarcón Negy, Tycho Nightingale, Hakim Weatherspoon, Zhiming Shen. Towards Swap-Free, Continuous Ballooning for Fast, Cloud-based Virtual Machine Migrations. In Proceedings of 15th ACM Symposium On Cloud Computing (SOCC), Redmond, WA. Nov. 2024.
Kevin Alarcón Negy, Peter Rizun, Emin Gün Sirer. Selfish Mining Re-Examined. In Proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2020 Twenty-Fourth International Conference, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Feb. 2020. [slides][pdf]
Archive
Guide to the PhD Application Process.
Updated as of July 2025.