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
Course Instructor
Operating Systems (COS 417). Princeton University. Spring 2026.
Introduction to Programming Systems (COS 217). Princeton University. Fall 2025.
The Art and Science of Computer Programming (COS 125). Princeton University. Summer 2025.
Fundamental Programming Concepts (CS 1109). Cornell University. Summer 2024.
Teaching Assistant
Practicum in Operating Systems (CS 4411). Cornell University. Spring 2025.
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 January 2026.