Patrick Eugster

Patrick Eugster is a full professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and leads the Software Systems (SWYSTEMS) group within the Computer Systems Institute. He has held academic positions at Purdue University, TU Darmstadt, and MIT as a visiting faculty. His research focuses on distributed software systems, addressing challenges in consistency, efficiency, and security in decentralized environments.

• Current affiliation: USI Faculty of Informatics
• Prior affiliations: Purdue University (2005-2016), TU Darmstadt (2014-2017), MIT (2012/2013)

Research Interests
Distributed Systems: Investigating reliable failure detection, deterministic data paths for 6G, and hybrid synchronous/asynchronous architectures.
Network Innovation: Optimizing TCAM encoding, analyzing microbursts, and developing quantum network protocols.
Security & Verification: Creating confidentiality-preserving mechanisms and formal verification approaches for distributed software.

Scientific Contributions

• 2025: Best paper at TACAS on Horn clause validation
• 2025: IFIP Jean-Claude Laprie Award for dependable computing
• 2024: Key papers at IEEE Network, ACM PLDI, and IEEE INFOCOM

Funding & Collaborations

• Swiss National Science Foundation grants #200021_197353 and #200021_192121
• EU Horizon Europe MSCA staff exchange project CloudStars
• Industry partners: Cisco, Amazon AWS, Facebook Research, SAP, Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium

Labs & Teams
Directs the SWYSTEMS group, which includes postdocs like Sina Darabi and Shamiek Mangipudi, PhD students such as Anita Buckley and Jérôme Graf, and alumni who have become faculty at institutions like Télécom Paris and University of Southern California.