Computer Systems

Computer Systems is an active area of research at the Faculty of Informatics of USI Università della Svizzera italiana. Our faculty does work on computer architecture, distributed systems, mobile computing, cloud computing, service-oriented computing, security, autonomic computing, performance, embedded systems, self-adaptive systems, and other areas.

 

Walter Binder

Prof. Binder founded the Dynamic Analysis Group. His research interests include dynamic program analysis, concurrent and parallel programming, aspect-oriented programming, virtual machines, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing.

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Antonio Carzaniga

Prof. Carzaniga interests lie in the general areas of distributed computing, computer networks and advanced communication services, and software engineering.

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Patrick Thomas Eugster

Prof. Eugster is interested in software systems, with a particular focus on distributed systems and programming models/languages, and the intersection between the two. He has co-authored over 120 scientific articles on these topics. His research has been awarded by various funding agencies and companies. 

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Matthias Hauswirth

Prof. Hauswirth's interests lie in the area between programming languages, runtime systems, and software engineering, with a focus on the efficiency of software, its users, and its developers. Prof. Hauswirth leads the Lugano Computing Education Research Lab (LuCE).

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Marc Langheinrich

Prof. Langheinrich's main research interest lies at the intersection of privacy and ubiquitous computing. Prof. Langheinrich heads the Research Group for Ubiquitous Computing.

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Fernando Pedone

Prof. Pedone's research interests focus on the theory and practice of dependable distributed systems and distributed data management systems.

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Mauro Pezzè

Prof. Pezzè's research interests focus on the definition of techniques for the design and development of high-quality software systems. Prof. Pezzè leads STAR, the Software Testing and Analysis Research group.

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Laura Pozzi

Prof. Pozzi is interested in the interaction between compiler and architecture design in the field of embedded systems. Her research mostly revolves around the automation of embedded processor customization and the definition of innovative configurable fabrics.

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Silvia Santini

Prof. Santini's research focus is on wireless sensor and actuator networks, mobile sensing, cyber-physical systems and stretches to the domains of ubiquitous computing and the internet of things.

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