Prof. Gustavo Alonso receives EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Gustavo Alonso (D-INFK) has received the prestigious EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding technical contributions to the field of computer systems.
The EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award is given every other year to a researcher who has made outstanding technical contributions to the field and has shaped computer systems in Europe. This year, Professor Gustavo Alonso, who is a full professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, receives the distinguished award.
Professor Gustavo Alonso heads the Institute for Computing Platforms at the Department of Computer Science. Before joining ETH Zurich, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Alonso’s research interests encompass almost all aspects of systems, from design to run time. He works in distributed systems, databases, cloud computing, and hardware acceleration of data science. His recent research is related to multi-core architectures, large clusters, FPGAs, and big data, mainly working on adapting traditional system software (OS, databases, networking) to modern hardware platforms.
Gustavo Alonso already received various prestigious awards for his work: the Middleware 2019 Test-of-Time Award for work on mobile computing and the cloud, the Middleware 2017 Test-of-Time Award for work on distributed software modularization and the FCCM 2013 Best Paper Award for work on skyline operators on FPGAs, just to name a few. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of UC Santa Barbara.