Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Hans-Arno Jacobsen is a Professor holding the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Networks and Innovation at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science under the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

• Full-time faculty member since 2001
• Fellow of the IEEE
• Chair of the Computer Group

Jacobsen leads the Middleware Systems Research Group (MSRG), focusing on scalable distributed systems. His work spans:

• Core research: Event processing, publish/subscribe systems, service-oriented architectures
• Applied domains: Blockchain infrastructure, quantum machine learning, cloud computing
• Cross-disciplinary interests: Energy informatics, sustainable computing, quantum chemistry

His publications and grants since 2019 demonstrate sustained leadership in:

• Quantum computing applications
• Reproducibility in quantum systems
• Blockchain optimization
• Microservices architecture
• Cyber-physical system engineering

Selected scientific awards:

• Double Test-of-Time Award recipient from VLDB (2019) and ACM Middleware (2015)
• Event Processing Technical Society's Innovative Principles Award (2011)

Major funding includes:

• NSERC Discovery Grant (2021-2026) for 'Learning Clouds'
• IBM/NSERC Collaborative Grant (2019-2023) for cloud microservices
• Ontario Research Fund (2019-2026) for CyPreSS project