Patrick Eugster

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/

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

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Ongoing projects

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