Alonso Gustavo
Professor
Department of Computer Science
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Gustavo Alonso is from Madrid, Spain, where he completed in 1989 his undergraduate studies in Telecommunications Engineering at the Madrid Technical University (UPM-ETSIT). During his studies he was awarded the IEEE AFH Student Best Paper Award and the Hewlett-Packard Eurostudent Award. As an undergraduate, he also spent several months in the Optoelectronics Division of Hewlett-Packard in San Jose, California, working as a computer engineer. As a Fulbright student, he did his graduate studies in computer science (M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994) in the University of California at Santa Barbara. After graduating, he was a visiting scientist in the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory in San Jose, California, where he worked within the Exotica project in areas such as workflow management and transaction processing. In September 1995 he joined the Database Research Group at ETH Zurich, where he lead several projects in databases, workflow management, replication, and advanced applications.
Research Interest
Alonso Gustavo research interest include: parallel and distributed systems, databases, workflow management, scientific applications of database and workflow technology.
