Patrick Eugster
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Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Faculty of Informatics
Via alla Santa 1
CH-6900 Viganello
Switzerland |
Phone: +41 58 666 4913
Fax: +41 58 666 4536
Office: Campus EST, Office D2.07
http://inf.usi.ch/faculty/eugstp/
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Welcome
I'm a full professor at USI where I lead the Software Systems (SWYSTEMS) group. SWYSTEMS is part of USI's Computer Systems Institute, of which I am a founding member. Prior to that I was a regular
faculty member at Purdue
University (2005 - 2016) and TU Darmstadt
(2014 - 2017). I have also been a visiting faculty member at MIT (2012/2013). I had the privilege to serve as program chair of ACM OOPSLA'15, and currently am serving as associate editor for IEEE TSE. Throughout the years I had the pleasure to collaborate with, and receive support from, several corporate partners including Cisco, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, NetApp, and SAP. I am currently also serving as a vice-dean for the faculty of informatics.
I'm interested in various aspects of distributed software
systems. Distribution is here to stay as it is a choice often made consciously to address limitations of single computers (e.g., to parallelize computations), but, almost more importantly, it is frequently a given with applications allowing humans to interact directly or indirectly through respective devices. Challenges arise from the need of achieving efficiency without forfeiting consistency in corresponding applications, in the presence of failures and security threats.
New: Upcoming keynote talk at ACM DEBS'23
New: Paper on [omitted for anonymity] conditionally accepted at ACM PLDI'23
New: Paper on control theory for network congestion control to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
New: Paper on faster symbolic model checking for TLA+ accepted at TACAS'23
New: Seed grant from Hasler Foundation for our work on network function chaining
New: Paper on secure smart contracts to appear in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
New: Project on cross-platform integry preservation supported by award from Facebook Research in Security
New: EU Marie Curie Actions Staff Exchange project on data center computing funded
New: Paper on secure and reliable network updates to appear in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
New: Paper on resource management for in-network computing to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
New: Paper on efficient overlay-based distributed data aggregation to appear in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
New: Paper on fast and correct user-space file-system access to appear in ACM Transactions on Storage
New: Several open positions at the PhD student and postdoctoral levels on a broad collaboration on datacenter computing with SAP!
Publications
Please check DBLP or similar sites.
Ongoing
projects
- Dynamic service funcation chaining. Supported by Hasler Foundation
- Hybrid asynchronous/synchronous distributed systems. Supported by Swiss National Science Foundation grant # 200021_197353 and Facebook Research in Distributed Systems
- Network flow prediction. Supported by Hasler Foundation, Cisco Systems Inc., and Swiss National Science Foundation grant # 200021_192121
- Secure anomaly detection for the IoT. Supported by SensorHound Inc. and Hasler Foundation
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Elastic and robust cloud programming. Supported by NSF CSR grant
# 1618923
- Secure cloud-based data analytics. Supported by DARPA
grant # N11AP20014, Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research
Consortium (NGCRC), Cisco Systems Inc., NSF TWC grant # 1421910, Amazon AWS, Hasler Foundation, Facebook Research in Security, and BMBF through research center CRISP
- Lightweight verification of distributed systems software. Supported by
European Research Council Consolidator grant # FP7-617805, and Hasler Foundation
Some
past projects
Some
upcoming and recent events
Current team members (by role and alphabet.)
Former team members (by role and chronol.)
Awards,
fellowships, and honors
- 2022 Research Award in Security -- Facebook
- 2020 Research Award in Distributed Systems -- Facebook
- 2014 Innovators Hall of Fame Inductee -- Purdue University
- 2014 Faculty Fellowship -- NetApp
- 2014 Consolidator Award -- European Research Council
- 2014 Graduate Student Mentoring Award -- Purdue U. College of
Science
- 2014 Engagement Award -- Purdue U. College of Science
- 2013 Research Award -- Google
- 2012 Professional Achievement Award -- Purdue U. College of
Science
- 2011 Experienced Researcher Fellowship -- Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation
- 2011 Computer Science Study Group Member -- DARPA
- 2010 Best Paper Award -- ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware
- 2010 Undergraduate Student Advising Award -- Purdue U.
College of Science
- 2007 CAREER -- US National Science Foundation
- 2002 Advanced Researcher Fellowship -- Swiss National Science
Foundation
- 2002 Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship -- Swedish Research
Council
- 2001 Prize of Excellence for an Exceptional Research
Contribution -- EPFL
- 1998 Prize of Excellence for an Exceptional Teaching
Contribution -- EPFL