Pedro Jose Sousa Da Fonseca

Pedro Jose Sousa Da Fonseca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he leads the Reliable and Secure Systems Lab. His research focuses on building reliable and secure systems, particularly in core software components like operating systems, hypervisors, and distributed systems. He joined Purdue in Fall 2018 and has received awards including the NSF CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Awards.

Education: PhD from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and University of Saarland (advised by Rodrigo Rodrigues), postdoc at University of Washington (with Arvind Krishnamurthy, Hank Levy). Research interests span system reliability, security, and concurrency testing. His work includes frameworks like MultiNyx for hypervisor analysis, SKI for kernel bug detection, and KARD for data race detection.

Teaching includes courses on Operating Systems (CS503), Reliable and Secure Systems (CS592), and Software Testing (CS408). Active in academic service as PC member for OSDI, EuroSys, and SOSP. Advises PhD students on topics like kernel testing, serverless computing, and confidential cloud systems.

Awards: NSF CAREER Award (202?), Google Faculty Research Award, Google Research Scholar Award. Over 30 publications in top venues like SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, and ASPLOS. Collaborations with institutions like MPI-SWS, University of Washington, and industry partnerships with Google.