Dr. Stanko Novakovic received his PhD at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion and Prof. Babak Falsafi in 2017.
Thesis: “Rack-Scale Memory Pooling for Datacenters“.
His interests encompassed many aspects of computer systems, with an emphasis on operating systems, distributed systems, and computer architecture. His ongoing research efforts focus on hardware and software systems designed for datacenter-scale applications and services, such as analytics and data serving.
Stanko received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2010 and 2011, respectively. In 2013 he interned at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and in 2014 at HP Labs in Palo Alto, USA. His research was sponsored by the Microsoft Research Swiss JRC.
Following his Ph.D., Stanko joined VMware Research Group as a Post Doctoral Researcher. Stanko furthered his career as a Researcher at Microsoft Research Center in Redmond, WA, and is now currently at Google as a Software Engineer.
Prof. Dr. Alexandros Daglis received his Ph.D. at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Babak Falsafi and Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2018.
Thesis: “Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing“.
Alex was the architect of Scale-Out NUMA, a rack-scale architecture, programming model and communication protocol designed to deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth access to remote memory, enabling memory pooling in scale-out deployments.
Alex’s thesis was awarded an EPFL thesis distinction and the ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Honorable Mention.
Alex is now an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta GA.
Dr. George Prekas received his PhD at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2018.
Thesis: “Bridging the gap between dataplanes and commodity operating systems“.
George received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2010. As of September 2013, he joined the Data Center Systems Laboratory to pursue a PhD, and perform research focused on data center systems and contribute to the IX project. George completed an internship at Microsoft in 2015 where he contributed to the design and deployment of Apache Hadoop Distributed File System in datacenters with multi-tenant nodes, as well as an internship at VMWare in 2016, where he focused on the design and implementation of tools to simplify programming for non-volatile memory.
George was awarded a Google European Fellowship for 2015.
George is currently a Software Engineer at the D. E. Shaw Group in New York, NY
Dr. Jonas Fietz received his PhD at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Katerina Argyraki and Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2019.
Thesis: “Traffic Locality as an Opportunity in the Data Center“.
Further to receiving his Diploma in Mathematics as well as in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) he joined the Data Center Systems Laboratory and the Networking Architecture Group NAL at EPFL in 2013.
Jonas is currently a Software Engineer in Google’s Research & Development center in Zurich.
Dr. Sam Whitlock received his PhD at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2019.
Thesis: “Scaling Out Bioinformatics in the Data Center“.
Sam began his PhD in September 2013 after receiving his B.S. from UC Berkeley in EECS. He worked on cluster management systems (Mesos) and Software-defined Networking (SDN Troubleshooting).
Further to his Ph.D. Sam joined Cisco in Lausanne as a Software Engineer. Sam is currently a Researcher at Microsoft Research Center in Redmond, WA.
Dr. Mia Primorac received her PhD at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion and Prof. Katerina Argyraki in 2020.
Thesis: “Understanding and Mitigating Latency Variability of Latency-Critical Applications“.
Mia completed her BSc and MSc degrees in Computing from the University of Zagreb in 2012 and 2014. In 2013 she completed a summer internship at Operating Systems Laboratory at EPFL and in 2016 she was a Research Intern in Intel Labs. She joined the Data Center Systems Laboratory at EPFL in 2015 and received her Ph.D. in 2020.
Mia is currently a Researcher at Oracle Labs in Zurich.
Prof. Dr. Marios Kogias received his Ph.D. at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2020.
Thesis: “Operating System and Network Co-Design for Latency-Critical Datacenter Applications“.
Marios received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2014. Marios joined the Data Center Systems Laboratory and began his Ph.D. in 2015. From 2015 to 2020 he led the efforts on Zygos, Lancet, R2P2, and Hovercraft, with papers were published in SOSP, ATC, Eurosys, and SoCC.
Marios was a Post Doctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK and has now joined Imperial College London as an Assistant Professor and Lecturer in June 2022.
The DCSL Laboratory is proud to congratulate Dr. Marios Kogias for the Dennis M. Ritchie Thesis Award 2021 !
Dr. Adrien Ghosn received his Ph.D. at the EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion in 2021.
Thesis: “Trust as a Programming Primitive“.
Adrien began his Ph.D. in September 2016 after receiving his M.Sc. in Computer Science from EPFL in 2016. He joined the Data Center Systems Laboratory and focused his interest on the intersection between systems, programming languages, and security.
Adrien is currently a Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.
Prof. Dr. Dmitrii Ustiugov graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in March 2022. Thesis: “Data-centric serverless cloud architecture“.
Dmitrii received his M.S. and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow institute of Physics and Technology. After spending 4 years in the semiconductor and Big Data industry, Dmitrii joined EPFL as a Ph.D. student and then transferred to the University of Edinburgh to work under the supervision of Prof. Boris Grot and was co-advised by Prof. Edouard Bugnion.
Dmitrii works on vHive open-source framework and ecosystem for serverless experimentation, used in academic and industry research. His research spans Computer Architecture and Computer Systems with a focus on serverless and cloud computing.
Further to holding a Post Doctoral Researcher position in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich. Dmitrii is now an Assistant Professor at Nanyan Technological University in Singapore since January 2023.