Edouard Bugnion

Prof. Edouard Bugnion is a Full Professor at the Data Center Systems Laboratory within the School of Computer Science and Communications at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since joining EPFL in 2012, he has led research in datacenter systems and virtualization, with prior experience as VMware's first CTO and Cisco's VP/CTO.

Research Interests:

• Data Center Systems
• Network and Data Plane Efficiency
• Operating System Design
• Virtualization Technologies
• Trusted Execution Environments
• Low-Latency Computing

His recent publications focus on datacenter efficiency for OLDI applications, system security through hardware-based trust, and network-compute co-design. These works span topics from microsecond-scale latency optimization to privacy-preserving proximity tracing systems.

Scientific Recognition:

• Elected ACM Fellow (2017)
• ACM Software Systems Award (2009)

Teaching: Currently teaching CS-212: Systems Programming Project, with past courses including CS-522: Principles of Computer Systems and CS-410: Technology Ventures.