Speakers

Gustavo Alonso is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich where he is a member of the Systems Group (www.systems.ethz.ch) and the head of the Institute of Computing Platforms. He leads the AMD HACC (Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Cluster) deployment at ETH (https://github.com/fpgasystems/hacc), with several hundred users worldwide, a research facility that supports exploring data center hardware-software co-design. His research interests include data management, cloud computing architecture, and building systems on modern hardware. Gustavo holds degrees in telecommunication from the Madrid Technical University and a MS and PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining ETH, he was a research scientist at IBM Almaden in San Jose, California. Gustavo has received 4 Test-of-Time Awards for his research in databases, software runtimes, middleware, and mobile computing. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of UC Santa Barbara, and has received the Lifetime Achievements Award from the European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS (EuroSys).

Alberto Lerner is a Senior Researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. His interest revolves around data intensive and distributed systems, particularly using heterogeneous hardware to support them. He has participated in designing and implementing several such systems, both in Academia and in companies such as IBM, Google, and MongoDB before that. Alberto has been on several Program Committees for the Database and Systems communities, including SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR, EDBT, ICDE, and Usenix ATC, and has won the best reproducibility paper award in VLDB 2020.

Sangjin Lee is a Senior Researcher in the Computer Science Department at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, 2022. His research includes database systems, computational storage, SSD architectures, and exploring Database Kernel architectures for CXL-enabled storage. Dr. Lee has published in CIDR, MICRO, and SIGMOD, and previously held roles at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has received awards, including a Samsung Sponsorship for Talented Students.

Michal Friedman is an Assistant Professor at the Systems Group at the department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich. Her research interests include systems, concurrent computing, programming languages and sustainable computing. Her research focuses on designing system fundamentals, across software and hardware, to improve the performance and efficiency while guaranteeing correctness of next-generation computing platforms and emerging technologies. Prior to that, she did a postdoc at the System Group, working with Prof. Gustavo Alonso. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Technion, advised by Prof. Erez Petrank, and was generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation Fellowship. During her Ph.D she developed concurrent data structures for non-volatile memories. She completed her BSc summa cum laude at the Computer Science Department at the Technion.