Patrick Eugster

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/

Affiliated with Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Biographical sketch. My CV

Research

Distributed systems, software, and programming.

Publications of the Distributed Programming and Distributed Systems Programming groups

Ongoing projects

• Lightweight verification of distributed systems. Supported by European Research Council Consolidator grant # FP7-617805
• Elastic and robust cloud programming. Supported by NSF CSR grant # 1618923
• Assured cloud-based big data analytics. Supported by DARPA grant # N11AP20014, Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium (NGCRC), Cisco, and NSF TWC grant # 1421910
• Resource-efficient remote monitoring and diagnostics for cyber-physical systems. Startup company SensorHound supported by NSF SBIR phase 2 grant # 1345940
• Geo-distributed data processing. Supported by DARPA grant # N11AP20014, Google, and NetApp
• Least privilege enforcement through secure threads. Supported by NSF TC grant # 1117065

Some past projects

• A Fog computing architecture. Supported by Cisco Systems Inc.
• Matching networks. Supported by Purdue Research Foundation (PRF)
• 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

• 2014 Innovators Hall of Fame Inductee -- Purdue University
• 2014 NetApp 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
• 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

Some upcoming and recent events

• OPODIS 2017 (Dec 18 - 20, Lisbon, Portugal) -- PC member
• Middleware 2017 (Dec 11 - 15, Las Vegas, Nevad) -- PC member
• DEBS 2017 (Jun 19 - 23, Barcelona, Spain) -- PC member
• ECOOP 2017 (Jun 17 - 25, Barcelona, Spain) -- PC member
• ICSE 2017 (May 20 - 28, Buenos Aires, Argentina) -- PC member
• OOPSLA 2016 (Nov 2 - 4, Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- PC member
• ECOOP 2016 (Jul 18 -22, Rome, Italy) -- PC member
• ICDCS 2016 (Jun 27 - 30, Nara, Japan) -- PC member FT track

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, Spring 2014
• CS456 Programming Languages -- Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
• CS390/490DS Distributed Systems -- Fall 2011, Spring 2014
• CS307 Software Engineering I (for CS, ECE, and CIT) -- Fall 2007, Fall 2008

Current collaborators

• Tzu-Chun Chen (postdoc, TU Darmstadt)
• Mahsa Najafzadeh (postdoc, Purdue)
• Vinaitheerthan Sundaram (postdoc, Purdue)
• Bara' Abusalah (PhD student, Purdue). Dependable Resources
• Marcel Bloecher (PhD student, TU Darmstadt). Robust Distributed Protocols
• Terry Hsu (PhD student, Purdue). Operating System Security
• Patrick Jahnke (PhD) student, TU Darmstadt). Network Support for Distibuted Systems
• James Lembke (PhD student, Purdue). Network Storage
• Danushka Menikkumbura (PhD student, Purdue). Buffer Management
• Bo Sang (PhD student, Purdue). Elastic Distributed Software
• Savvas Savvides (PhD student, Purdue). Privacy in Cloud Computing
• Derek Schatzlein (PhD student, Purdue). Resource Management
• Julian Stephen (PhD student, Purdue). Secure Cloud Programming
• Malte Viering (PhD student, TU Darmstadt). Compiler support for Safe Distributed Programs
• Weihang Wang (PhD student, Purdue), co-advised with X. Zhang. Reliable Web Programming
• Riya Charaya (MS student, Purdue)

Former team members

• Srivatsan Ravi (visiting assistant professor). Now research assistant professor at USC.
• YoungTae Noh (postdoc). Now assistant professor at Inha University.
• Masoud Saeida Ardekani (visiting assistant professor). Now researcher at Samsung Research.
• Kirill Kogan (postdoc). Now research assistant professor at IMDEA Networks Institute.
• Aaron Wilkin (PhD). Now assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• William Culhane (PhD). Now research associate at Imperial College London.
• Vinaitheerthan Sundaram (PhD), co-advised with X. Zhang. Now CEO at SensorHound Innovations (startup co-founder)
• Chamikara Jayalath (PhD). Now software engineer at Google.
• Kevin Hoffman (PhD). Now CEO and CTO at eFolder (startup founder)
• Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan (PhD). Now researcher at IBM Research
• Jacques Thomas (PhD), co-advised with J. Vitek. Now software development engineer with Amazon
• Sebastien Baehni (PhD), co-advised with R. Guerraoui. Now CTO at Nexthink (startup)
• Sidath Bandara Handurukande (PhD), co-advised with R. Guerraoui. Now researcher at Ericsson Labs
• Parantap Roy (MS). Now member of technical staff at Acelio
• Ankur Khetrapal (MS). Now senior engineer at Apple
• Harrison Metzger (MS). Now trade strategy developer at DRW Trading Group