Simon Peter
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Simon Peter graduated with a Ph.D. (Dr. sc. ETH) in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in October 2012. Prior to that he graduated (Dipl.-Inf.) from the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany in 2006 with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Music. Before his position as assistant professor at UT Austin, he was a post-doc at the University of Washington with Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy, from 2012 to 2015.
He is one of the founding authors of the Barrelfish multicore operating system.
Research
Research Areas:
Select Publications
. 2019. Discipline Convergence in Networked Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 18261). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik.
. 16 December 2018. Ryoan: A distributed sandbox for untrusted computation on secret data. ACM.13.
. 18 April 2018. Volur: Concurrent Edge/Core Route Control in Data Center Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06945.
. 2018. Floem: a programming system for NIC-accelerated network applications. 13th {USENIX} Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation ({OSDI} 18).663-679.
.Strata: A Cross Media File System. Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. 14 October 2017. 460-477.
Awards & Honors
- 2018-2020 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- 2018-2022 - NSF CAREER Award
- 2018 - Memorable Paper Award: Strata: A Cross Media File System
- 2016 - Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award: Ryoan: A Distributed Sandbox for Untrusted Computation on Secret Data
- 2014 - Madrona Prize for most likely entrepreneurial success: Arrakis
- 2014 - Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award: Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane
- 2004-2006 - German National Academic Foundation Fellowship
Contact Info
Simon Peter
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(512) 232-7414
GDC 6.430