Patrick Eugster

Assistant Professor

Purdue University
Dept. of Computer Science
305 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
USA

Phone: +1 765 494 6015
Fax: +1 765 494 0739
Office: LWSN 3154N
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/peugster/

Member of Secure Software Systems (S³) lab. Affiliated with Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS).

Students interested in working me with as grad students at Purdue: Please apply directly to our grad school; you'll be able to indicate faculty you'd like to work with.

Research

(Object-oriented) programming languages and abstractions
(Fault-tolerant) algorithms and middleware

for distributed systems.

Publications

Projects

Pervasive programming with event correlation (NSF CAREER)
Programming language constructs and runtime support for distributed object programming
Probabilistic approaches for dynamic decentralized distributed systems
Explicit Join Points (EJPs). Reconciling aspects with mainline code
DisCo (Distribution and Contracts -- project with ETH Zurich in Switzerland)
Pervaho: Programming support for mobile ad-hoc computing (project with University of Lausanne in Switzerland)
(past) PEPITO (PEer-to-Peer: Implementation and TheOry -- European project)
(past) Terminodes (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research project)
(past) DACE (Distributed Asynchronous Computing Environment -- umbrella project))

Teaching

Fall 2008: CS307 Software Engineering I (for CS, ECE, and CIT)
Spring 2008: CS565 Programming Languages
Fall 2007: CS307 Software Engineering I
Spring 2007: CS590E Distributed Event-based Systems and Programming
Fall 2006: CS603 Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems
Spring 2006: CS590E Distributed Programming

Students

Kevin Hoffman (PhD student)
Jayaram Kallapalayam Radha (PhD student)
Jacques Thomas (PhD Student)
Chamikara Jayalath

Recent events

RDDS 2008 (Nov 9 - 14, Monterrey, Mexico)
HPCC 2008 (Sep 25 - 27, DaLian, China)
DOA 2008 (Nov 10 - 12, Monterrey, Mexico)
ECOOP 2008 (July 7 - 11, Paphos, Cyprus; workshop co-chair)
TOOLS Europe 2008 (June 30 - July 4, Zurich, Switzerland)
Autonomics 2007 (October 28 - 30, Rome, Italy)

Fuel

...

The good life is the middle way

between ambition and compassion

between action and reflection

between company and solitude

between hedonism and abstinence

between passion and judgement

between the cup of coffee

and the glass of wine.

[Jay McInerney]