Peter Pietzuch

Peter Pietzuch is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group. He also serves as the Director of Research and is a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Pietzuch holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. from Girton College.

His research spans distributed systems, cloud computing, big data processing, and systems security. Key interests include:

• Scalable architectures for cloud-native applications
• Efficient stream processing and machine learning systems
• Trusted execution environments and secure cloud infrastructure
• Optimization of serverless computing and distributed databases

His recent publications focus on adaptive machine learning frameworks, secure cloud resource management, and high-performance stream processing systems. Trends show strong emphasis on hardware-software co-design, confidential computing, and fault-tolerant architectures.

Awards include:

• Best Paper Award at Middleware'03

He actively advises PhD students and secures grants for projects like Faasm (serverless computing) and Teechain (blockchain security). His LSDS group collaborates with industry partners including Microsoft Research.

Pietzuch teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Scalable Systems for the Cloud and Operating Systems. He co-founded the ACM DEBS conference and serves on steering committees for EuroSys and Middleware.