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).

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.

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