Antoine Kaufmann

Antoine Kaufmann is a Tenure-Track Faculty Member (W2) at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and serves as Adjunct Faculty at TU Munich's Chair of Distributed Systems and Operating Systems. He leads the operating systems research group focusing on post-Moore systems – specialized architectures integrating hardware and software components.

Education includes a PhD from University of Washington's Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Bachelor/Master degrees from ETH Zürich. His work bridges systems research and practical implementations, resulting in publications at top-tier venues including SOSP, OSDI, and EuroSys.

Research Interests: Centers on the interplay of software and hardware in specialized systems. Key areas include network communication architectures, machine learning systems, and methodologies for efficient post-Moore systems with manageable complexity through reusable components.

Publications: Focus on network systems, operating systems, and distributed computing, with recent work on simulation frameworks (SplitSim), virtualized network stacks (Virtuoso), and reconfigurable packet processing (Kugelblitz).

Awards: Distinguished Artifact Award for Clockwork at OSDI 2020.

Teaching & Service: Developed courses on Operating Systems and Accelerating Applications with Specialized Hardware. Regularly serves on program committees for EuroSys, MobiSys, and other top conferences.