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). Biographical sketch.

Students interested in working with me towards an MS or PhD degree: Do not contact me. Please apply directly to our grad school; you'll be able to indicate faculty you'd like to work with.

New: three open postdoc positions in (1) event-based programming and systems, (2) PL and OS security, and (3) distributed cloud computing. Check this page for more information.

Research

Programming languages and abstractions, algorithms, and middleware for distributed systems.

Publications

Ongoing projects

Large-scale cloud-based data analysis. Supported by DARPA grant # N11AP20014
Least privilege enforcement through secure threads. Supported by NSF TC, grant # 1117065
A methodology for developing complex event-based software. Supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and DARPA
Seamless cloud computing. Supported by Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), grant # 204533
Memory management innovations for future generation SMP. Supported by NSF CSR, grant # 0834619
Debugging pervasive systems. Supported by NSF CSR, grant # 0834529 (with X. Zhang)
Pervasive programming with event correlation. Supported by NSF CAREER, grant # 0644013

Awards, fellowships, and honors

2012 Professional Achievement Award -- Purdue University 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
2010 Undergraduate Student Advising Award -- Purdue University College of Science
2007 CAREER -- US NSF
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

Some recent events

OOPSLA 2012 (Oct 19 - 26, Tucson, Arizona) -- ERC member

DEBS 2012 (Jul 16 - 20, Berlin, Germany)

COORDINATION 2012 (Jun 14 - 15, Stockholm, Sweden) -- PC member
ECOOP 2012 (Jun 11 - 16, Beijing, China) -- Workshop committee co-chair
ICDCS 2012 (Jun 12 - 15, Kanazawa, Japan) -- PC member FT & OS tracks
AOSD 2012 (Mar 25 - 30, Potsdam, Germany) -- PC member
Middleware 2011 (Dec 12 - 16, Lisbon, Portugal) -- PC member
ECOOP 2011 (July 25 - 29, Lancaster, UK) -- PC member

Teaching

CS603 Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems -- Fall 2006, Fall 2009
CS590E Cloud Computing -- Fall 2010
CS590E Distributed Event-based Programming -- Spring 2007
CS590E Distributed Programming -- Spring 2006
CS565 Programming Languages -- Spring 2008
CS505 Distributed Systems -- Spring 2009
CS456 Programming Languages -- Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
CS390DS Distributed Systems -- Fall 2011
CS307 Software Engineering I (for CS, ECE, and CIT) -- Fall 2007, Fall 2008

Current collaborators (students: past Qual 2)

William Culhane. PhD student
Kevin Hoffman. PhD student
Adrian Holzer. Postdoc
Chamikara Jayalath. PhD student
Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan. PhD student
Vinaitheerthan Sundaram. PhD student, co-advised with X. Zhang
Aaron Wilkin. PhD student

Former students

Ankur Khetrapal. MS. Now with Amazon
Harrison Metzger. MS. Now with Allston Trading
Parantap Roy. MS. Now with Intel
Jacques Thomas. PhD, co-advised with J. Vitek. Now with Amazon

...

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]