Simon Spinner

Simon Spinner is associated with the Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on Software Performance Engineering, System Modeling, and Resource Management in virtualized environments. He has received notable awards including the Google Faculty Research Award and VMware Academic Research Award. His work includes contributions to tools like LibReDE (resource demand estimation) and QPME (Queueing Petri Net Modeling Environment). He has also been involved in industrial projects like MetASys for naval system requirements modeling.

Education highlights include a doctoral program at the University of Würzburg since 2014, with internships at VMware and IBM Research. He supervised Master's and Bachelor's theses on topics like parallel simulation of Queueing Petri Nets and application control flow monitoring.

His research interests span cloud computing performance, online model extraction, and secure group communication for IoT systems. He has contributed to conferences such as ICSE, SIGMETRICS, and ICAC, and maintains active collaborations with institutions like the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.