Gustavo Alonso

Biography

I am a professor at the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in Switzerland. I am from Madrid, Spain, where I studied telecommunications -electrical engineering- at the Madrid Technical University (ETSIT, Politecnica de Madrid). As a Fulbright scholar, I completed an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. After graduating from Santa Barbara, I worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center for a year before joining ETHZ. At ETHZ, I am part of the Systems Group. I am a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.

Research Interest

My research interests encompass almost all aspects of systems, from design to run time. I work in distributed systems, databases, middleware, and system aspects of programming languages. Most of my research these days is related to multi-core architectures, large clusters, FPGAs, and big data, mainly working on adapting traditional system software (OS, database, middleware) to modern hardware platforms