Please join us Thursday (1/7) at 2pm BST for Dr Zsolt István, ITU Copenhagen, online talk "Software-Defined Data Protection: Low Overhead Policy Compliance at the Storage Layer is Within Reach!" https://t.co/6fywbFFBBv

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  • Please join us Thursday (3/6) at 2pm BST for Dr Xiangyao Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, online talk "Scalable Transaction Processing with High Contention" https://t.co/U42vHaEDhP

    By LSDSImperial, 1 month 4 weeks ago

  • Please join us Thursday (27/5) at 2pm BST for Dr Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, online talk "Machine Learning for Data Systems" https://t.co/YSOb7DWfJ0

    By LSDSImperial, 2 months 4 days ago

  • RT @holger_p: Fancy a physical (!) trip to London to discuss your work and network with the British database community this December at @im…

    By LSDSImperial, 2 months 6 days ago

  • Please join us Thursday (20/5) at 2pm BST for Dr Mark Silberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, online talk "OmniX - an OS architecture for omni-programmable systems" https://t.co/gRy0SPj4G9

    By LSDSImperial, 2 months 1 week ago

  • Please join us Thursday (13/5) at 2pm BST for Dr Simon Peter, University of Texas at Austin, online talk Building Better Datacenters - The Quest for Low Latency" https://t.co/Bu6kYtTgEz

    By LSDSImperial, 2 months 2 weeks ago

  • Please join us Thursday (22/4) at 2pm BST for Dr Jens Teubner, TU Dortmund University, online talk "Minimize the Gap: How to Avoid Overhead in Database Processing through Co-Design" https://t.co/K2MbmfLRc7

    By LSDSImperial, 3 months 1 week ago

  • Please join us Thursday (15/4) at 2pm BST for Dr Lorenzo Cavallaro, King's College London, online talk "Robust Machine Learning... for Systems Security" https://t.co/bQ0ZSaur8C

    By LSDSImperial, 3 months 2 weeks ago

  • Please join us Thursday (25/3) at 2pm UTC for Dr Antonio Barbalace, University of Edinburgh, online talk "Don't Settle for Less, Fully Exploit Emerging Hardware with New System Software" https://t.co/MS3GpdF2Xi

    By LSDSImperial, 4 months 1 week ago

  • Please join us Thursday (4/3) at 2pm UTC for Dr Mark Silberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, online talk "OmniX - an OS architecture for omni-programmable systems" https://t.co/gRy0SPj4G9

    By LSDSImperial, 4 months 4 weeks ago
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The goal of the LSDS group is to support the design and implementation of tomorrow's large-scale data-intensive systems. We investigate new abstractions and infrastructures for building scalable, robust and secure data-intensive applications.

Current Projects

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  • Big Data Processing
  • Serverless
  • Cloud Computing
  • Systems Security
  • Machine Learning
  • Networking
 CloudCAP
CloudCAP
Compartments and Cloud-Native Applications
Cloud Computing
 Crossbow
Crossbow
Scalable Multi-GPU Deep Learning
Machine Learning
 Faasm
Faasm
Serverless Big Data Runtime
Big Data Processing, Serverless
 KungFu
KungFu
Adaptive Distributed Machine Learning
Machine Learning
 LightSaber
LightSaber
Multi-core Window-Based Stream Processing
Big Data Processing
 MDF
MDF
Meta-Dataflows
Big Data Processing
 Medea
Medea
Heterogenous Application Scheduling
Cloud Computing
 SABER
SABER
Hybrid Stream Processing
Big Data Processing, Machine Learning
 SEEP
SEEP
Stateful Big Data Processing
Big Data Processing
 SERECA
SERECA
Hardware-Assisted Cloud Security
Cloud Computing, Systems Security
 SGX-LKL
SGX-LKL
Linux Binaries in SGX Enclaves
Systems Security
 Teechain
Teechain
A Secure Blockchain Payment Network
Systems Security

Recent Publications

rkt-io: A Direct I/O Stack for Shielded Execution
J. Thalheim; H. Unnibhavi; C. Priebe; P. Bhatotia; and P. Pietzuch

In ACM EuroSys'21

CubicleOS: A Library OS with Software Componentisation for Practical Isolation
V.A. Sartakov; L. Vilanova; and P. Pietzuch

In ACM ASPLOS'21

Spons & Shields: Practical Isolation for Trusted Execution
V.A. Sartakov; D. O'Keeffe; D. Eyers; L. Vilanova; and P. Pietzuch

In VEE'21

KungFu: Making Training in Distributed Machine Learning Adaptive
L. Mai; G. Li; M. Wagenländer; K. Fertakis; A.O. Brabete; and P. Pietzuch

In USENIX OSDI'20

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Upcoming Events

Title To Be Confirmed
Yang Zhang
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Thursday, 26 August 2021 - 2:00pm, Online
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Sharing Knowledge on Sharing State
Vijay Nagarajan
University of Edinburgh
Thursday, 19 August 2021 - 2:00pm, Online
How does one provide efficient read/write access to copies of a datum shared amongst multiple actors, while making it seem like only one definitive copy exists? Variants of this problem have been...
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The LSDS Group

 Peter Pietzuch
Peter Pietzuch
Professor
Holger Pirk
Holger Pirk
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Lluís Vilanova
Lluís Vilanova
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Daphne Tuncer
Daphne Tuncer
Imperial College Research Fellow
Vasily A. Sartakov
Vasily A. Sartakov
Post-doctoral Researcher
Huanzhou Zhu
Huanzhou Zhu
Post-doctoral Researcher
Guo Li
Guo Li
Research Assistant
Konstantinos Fertakis
Konstantinos Fertakis
PhD Student
Ahmad Khazale
Ahmad Khazale
PhD Student
Fotis Kounelis
Fotis Kounelis
PhD Student
Domagoj Margan
Domagoj Margan
PhD Student
Carlos Segarra
Carlos Segarra
PhD Student
Alex Shamis
Alex Shamis
PhD Student
Simon Shillaker
Simon Shillaker
PhD Student
Georgios Theodorakis
Georgios Theodorakis
PhD Student
Alessandro Fogli
Alessandro Fogli
PhD Student
Pedro Silvestre
Pedro Silvestre
PhD Student
Marcel Wagenlander
Marcel Wagenlander
PhD Student

Open Positions

Post-Doctoral Researcher
In Systems Security
 

Join the EU-funded SecureCloud project and investigate how new hardware trust mechanisms can be used to improve the security of cloud computing applications.

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Post-Doctoral Researcher
In Distributed Systems, Systems, Databases
 

Multiple post-doctoral positions available in the areas of distributed systems, databases, and networking.

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PhD position
In Computer Systems for BigData and Data Science
 

Two PhD positions are available in the broad area of Computer Systems with focus on designing and building systems that support BigData and Data Science workloads on modern and future hardware platforms.

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PhD position
In Big Data Management: Auto-tuning for modern hardware
 

PhD position in Big Data Management with focus on Auto-tuning for modern hardware under the supervision of Dr. Holger Pirk.

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PhD position
In in Big Data Management: Data Compression
 

PhD position in Big Data Management with focus on Data Compression under the supervision of Dr. Holger Pirk.

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Interested in joining LSDS? How to apply