Edouard Bugnion

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Fields of expertise

Computer Systems, Data center infrastructure and networking, Operating systems, Virtualization

Biography

Prof. Edouard Bugnion is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Communications at EPFL. His primary focus in both teaching and research lies in the field of datacenter systems. Before joining EPFL in 2012, he spent 18 years in the US, during which he earned his PhD from Stanford University and co-founded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). He served as VMware’s first CTO and was later the VP/CTO of Cisco’s Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group. Prof. Bugnion is an ACM Fellow, a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW), and a recipient of the ACM software systems award. Prof Bugnion served as EPFL Vice President for Information Systems between 2017 and 2020 and as a Director of InnoSuisse from 2017 until 2024. As of January 2025, he holds the position of Vice President for Innovation and Impact at EPFL. He additionally serves as an independent Director on the boards of Logitech and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Current Research

I am generally interested in all aspects of data center systems. Together with my students, we are currently active in projects focused on :
Datacenter efficiency, with a focus on infrastructure support in network and data planes for OLDI applications.
System security, with a focus on building solutions from Trusted Execution Environments offered in hardware.

Teaching

Current classes:

* Spring:CS-212- Systems Programming Project(with Dr. Chappelier) S21, S17, S16
Previous classes:

* Fall:CS-522: Principles of Computer Systems(with Prof. Argyraki, Prof. Candea, and Prof. Koch) (F12, F 13, F14, F15)
* Spring:CS-410: Technology Ventures in IC S14,S15,S16

Education

Ph.D.

Computer Science

Stanford University

2012

M.Sc.

Computer Science

Stanford University

1996

Dipl.-Ing.

Informatik

ETHZ

1994

Awards

2017 : Elected Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

2009 : ACM Software System Award

Publications

Infoscience publications

EPFL Infoscience (2012 only)

Lightweight Hypervisor Verification: Putting the Hardware Burger on a Diet

C. Castes; F. Costa; N. Foster; T. Bourgeat; E. Bugnion

2025. The ACM SIGOPS 20th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Banff, Canada, 2025-05-14 - 2025-05-16. p. 27 - 33. DOI : 10.1145/3713082.3730373.

Edouard Bugnion

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Infoscience publications

EPFL Infoscience (2012 only)

Lightweight Hypervisor Verification: Putting the Hardware Burger on a Diet

Shattering the Ephemeral Storage Cost Barrier for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows

Duplicate detection against data leakage in a company setting

Highly Parallel RTL Simulation

A RISC-V Extension to Minimize Privileges of Enclave Runtimes

Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies

Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

A Use Case Oriented Survey of Self-Sovereign Identity

Attestable Software Versioning for Stateful Confidential Computing

Hidden Filesystem Design and Improvement

Building a path towards responsible use of Biometrics

When to Hedge in Interactive Services

Enclosure: Language-Based Restriction of Untrusted Libraries

Benchmarking, Analysis, and Optimization of Serverless Function Snapshots

Trust as a Programming Primitive

CrowdNotifier: Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Presence Tracing

Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

A research agenda for digital proximity tracing apps

SLOG: Your switch is also your load-generator

Operating System and Network Co-Design for Latency-Critical Datacenter Applications

Extending R2P2 with Congestion Control and Request-Level Scheduling

Understanding and Mitigating Latency Variability of Latency-Critical Applications

Tail-tolerance as a Systems Principle not a Metric

HovercRaft: Achieving Scalability and Fault-tolerance for microsecond-scale Datacenter Services

Measuring Network Service Latencies with a Programmable Dataplane

A zero-copy key-value store in Rust

Prefetched Address Translation

Scaling Out Bioinformatics in the Data Center

Secured Routines: Language-based Construction of Trusted Execution Environments

Traffic Locality as an Opportunity in the Data Center

R2P2: Making RPCs first-class datacenter citizens

Lancet: A self-correcting Latency Measuring Tool

R3P2: a Replicated Request-Response Pair Protocol

Design Guidelines for High-Performance SCM Hierarchies

Network-Compute Co-Design for Distributed In-Memory Computing

Bridging the gap between dataplanes and commodity operating systems

Flow control for Latency-Critical RPCs

Porting a driver for the Intel XL710 40GbE NIC to the IX Dataplane Operating System

Storage in IX: a High Performance Storage Layer for a Dataplane Operating System

Rack-Scale Memory Pooling for Datacenters

Persona: A High-Performance Bioinformatics Framework

Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization

Measuring Latency: Am I doing it right?

How to Measure the Killer Microsecond

ZygOS: Achieving Low Tail Latency for Microsecond-scale Networked Tasks

IX Open-source version 1.1 - Deployment and Evaluation Guide

An Analysis of Load Imbalance in Scale-out Data Serving

The Case for RackOut: Scalable Data Serving Using Rack-Scale Systems

VNToR: Network Virtualization at the Top-of-Rack Switch

The IX Operating System: Combining Low Latency, High Throughput, and Efficiency in a Protected Dataplan

SABRes: Atomic Object Reads for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing

Energy Proportionality and Workload Consolidation for Latency-Critical Applications

Enhancing Quality of Service metrics for high fan-in Node.js applications by optimising the network stack: Leveraging IX: The Dataplane Operating System

Manycore Network Interfaces for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing

IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency

Scale-Out NUMA

Automated Debugging for Arbitrarily Long Executions

Lightweight Snapshots and System-level Backtracking

Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation

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