Program Committee

Program Chair

Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Program Vice Chairs and TPC Members (Research Tracks)

Cloud Computing & Data Centers

Vice-Chairs

  • Dejan Kostic, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Marco Canini, KAUST, SA

TPC Members

  • Wei Bai, Microsoft Research Asia
  • Theo Benson, Brown University
  • Ivan Bestchastnikh, UBC
  • Sara Bouchenak, INSA, Lyon
  • Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech
  • Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
  • Ang Chen, Rice University
  • Byung-Gon Chun, Seoul National University
  • Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research
  • Colin Dixon, Facebook
  • Patrick Eugster, USI
  • Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown
  • Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research
  • Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
  • Hani Jamjoom, IBM
  • Xin Jin, Johns Hopkins University
  • Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London
  • Harsha Madhyastha, University of Michigan
  • Changwoo Min, Virginia Tech
  • Richard Mortier, University of Cambridge
  • Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
  • KyoungSoo Park, KAIST
  • Henry Robinson, Cloudera
  • Eric Rozner, IBM Research
  • Lukas Rupprecht, IBM Research
  • Stefan Schmid, Aalborg University & TU Berlin
  • Ioan Stefanovici, Microsoft Research
  • Lalith Suresh, VMware Research
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
  • Giovanni Toffetti Carughi, ZHAW
  • Chia-Che Tsai, UC Berkeley / Texas A&M
  • Marko Vukolic, IBM Research
  • Yang Wang, The Ohio State University
  • Henry Xu, City University of Hong Kong
  • Feng Yan, University of Nevada at Reno
  • Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 Distributed Big Data Systems & Analytics

Vice-Chair

  • Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada

TPC Members

  • Mo Sadhogi, UC Davis, USA
  • Kaiwen Zhang, TUM, Germany
  • Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine, USA
  • Vena Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  • Rajesh Bordawekar, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
  • Vijay Gadepally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Bugra Gedik, Bilkent University, Turkey,
  • Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA
  • Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Ce Zhang, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt University, Germany
  • Avigdor Gal, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Anisoara Nica, SAP, Canada
  • Holger Pirk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Vinay Setty, University of Stavanger, Norway
  • Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
  • Aleksander Aleksander Slominski, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
  • Valerie Issamy, INRIA, France
  • Tilmann Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium
  • Stefan Manegold, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Henry Xu City University of Hong Kong

Distributed Operating Systems & Middleware

Vice-Chairs

  • Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

TPC Members

  • Yérom-David Bromberg, University of Rennes, France
  • Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jian Tong University, China
  • Mosharaf Chowdhury, University of Michigan, USA
  • Aleksandar Dragojević, Microsoft Research UK
  • Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Yu Hua Huazhong, University of Science &Technology, China
  • Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Zhenhua Li, Tsinghua University, China
  • Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
  • Stanko Novakovic, VMware Research, USA
  • Luis Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Mema Roussopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
  • Malte Schwartzkopf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA
  • Ankit Singla, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Julinda Stefa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Ryan Stutsman, University of Utah, USA
  • Abhishek Verma, Google, USA
  • Bernard Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada

Distributed Algorithms & Theory

Vice-Chairs

  • Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion – Israel Instititute of Technology, Israel
  • Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

TCP Members

  • Ittai Abraham, VMWare Research
  • Dan Alistarh, IST
  • Chen Avin, BGU
  • Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University
  • Trevor Brown, Technion
  • Christian Cachin, IBM Research
  • Ajoy Datta, UNLV
  • Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa
  • Seth Gilbert, NUS
  • Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA
  • Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney
  • Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
  • Magnus Halldorsson, U of Iceland
  • Danny Hendler, Ben Gurion University
  • Christoph Lenzen, MPI
  • Alessia Milani, LaBRI
  • Calvin Newport, Georgetown U
  • Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston
  • Arpita Patra, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
  • Ami Paz, Technion
  • Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, ABB
  • Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM
  • Noam Rinetzki, TAU
  • Peter Robinson, RHUL
  • Elad Schiller, Chalmers
  • Hsin-Hao Su, UNC Charlotte
  • Lili Su, MIT
  • Jukka Suomela, Aalto U
  • Amitabh Trehan, Loughborough U
  • Przemysław Uznański , ETH
  • Ymir Vigfusson, Emory U
  • Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu U

Distributed Fault Tolerance & Dependability

Vice-Chairs

  • Pramod Bhatotia, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany

TPC Members

  • Baris Kasikci, University of Michigan, USA
  • Daniel Lohmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  • Endadul Hoque, Florida International University, USA
  • Felicita di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy
  • Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
  • François Taïani, Univ. of Rennes 1-IRISA-ESIR/Inria, France
  • Indranil Gupta, UIUC, USA
  • Lydia Chen, IBM Research Zürich, Switzerland
  • Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan, USA
  • Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Mohan Dhawan, IBM Research India, India
  • Natacha Crooks, UT Austin/Cornell University, USA
  • Nosayba El-Sayed, MIT, USA
  • Nuno Neves, University of Lisboa, Portugal
  • Parisa Jalili Marandi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  • Patrick Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Pedro Fonseca, University of Washington, USA
  • Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
  • Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA
  • Shriram Rajagopalan, IBM T J Watson Research, USA
  • Tianyin Xu, Facebook/UIUC, USA

Distributed Green Computing & Energy Management

Vice-Chairs

  • Erik Elmroth, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden
  • Di Wang, Microsoft Research, USA

TPC Members

  • Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Azer Bestavros, Boston University
  • David Breitgand, IBM Haifa Research Lab
  • Hao Chen, Amazon
  • Johan Eker, Ericsson Research
  • Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology
  • Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University
  • Sriram Govindan, Microsoft
  • Jordi Guitart, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Yang Hu, University of Texas at Dallas
  • David Irwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Canturk Isci, IBM T.J. Watson
  • Pooyan Jamshidi, Carnegie Mellon University
  • James Kempf, Ericsson Research
  • Chao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University
  • Suzanne McIntosh, Cloudera & NYU
  • Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh
  • Christine Morin, Inria IRISA
  • Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University
  • Juan F. Perez, University of Rosario
  • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
  • Shaolei Ren, University of California Riverside
  • Sriam Sankar, Facebook
  • Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University
  • Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary
  • Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Yorktown Heights
  • Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University
  • Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University
  • Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa
  • Cheng Wang, VMWare
  • Timothy Wood, George Washington University

Internet of Things & Cyber-Physical Systems

Vice-Chair

  • Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy

TPC Members

  • Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  • Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria
  • Maurizio Bocca, Bosch Research, USA
  • Octav Chipara, University of Iowa, USA
  • Wan Du, University of California, Merced, USA
  • Simon Duquennoy, Inria, France, and SICS, Sweden
  • Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China
  • Wen Hu, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • JeongGil Ko, Ajou University, South Korea
  • Linghe Kong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Olaf Landsiedel, Chalmers University, Sweden
  • Nicholas Lane, University College London and Nokia Bell Labs, UK
  • Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, Microsoft Research, China
  • Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and SICS, Sweden
  • Mirco Musolesi, University College London, UK
  • Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  • Carlo Pinciroli, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Philipp Sommer, ABB, Switzerland
  • Thiemo Voigt, SICS and Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Chenren Xu, Peking University, China
  • I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  • Yuanqing Zheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Mobile & Wireless Network Computing

Vice-Chairs

  • Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Joerg Ott, TU Munich, Germany

TPC Members

  • Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Anders Lindgren, SICS, Sweden
  • Archan Misra, SMU, Singapore
  • Ayon Chakraborthy, NEC Labs Princeton, USA
  • Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Univ of Buffalo, USA
  • Dirk Kutscher, Huawei, Germany
  • Felix Xiazhou Lin, Purdue, USA
  • Giovanni Pau, UPMC/LIP6, France
  • Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Jerome Härri, Eurcom, France
  • Jörg Widmer, IMDEA, Spain
  • Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Kai Römer, TU Graz, Austria
  • Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Pan Hui, HKUST, China
  • Riku Jäntti, Aalto University, Finland
  • Sampath Rangarajan, NEC Labs America, USA
  • Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Teemu Kärkkäinen, TUM, Germany
  • Theodoros Salonidis, IBM Research, USA
  • Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, China
  • Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Tech, USA

Edge Computing

Vice-Chairs

  • Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

TPC Members

  • Rajesh Balan, SMU, Singapore
  • Ramon Caceres, Google, USA
  • Fred Douglis, Vencore Labs, USA
  • Dilma da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK
  • Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
  • Grace Lewis, CMU-SEI, USA
  • Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA
  • Landon Cox, Duke University, USA
  • Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  • Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
  • Dinesh Verma, IBM Research, USA
  • Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems

Vice-Chairs

  • Herbert Bos, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Mathias Payer, Purdue University, USA

TPC Members

  • Adam Doupe, Arizona State University, USA
  • Aniket Kate, Purdue University, USA
  • Aurelien Francillion, Eurecom, France
  • Christina Poepper, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
  • Clementine Maurice, CNRS/IRISA, France
  • Danfeng Yao, Virginia Tech, USA
  • Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
  • Erik van der Kouwe, Leiden University, Netherlands
  • Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Georgios Portokalidis, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Konrad Rieck, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Magnus Almgren, Chalmers, Sweden
  • Manuel Egele, Boston University, USA
  • Michael Franz, University of California at Irvine, USA
  • Michalis Polychronakis, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Nick Weaver, ICSI, USA
  • Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany
  • Stefan Brunthaler, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Stefan Mangard, TU Graz, Austria
  • Ting Yu, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
  • Vijay D’Silva, Google, USA
  • Yan Chen, Northwestern University, USA
  • Yanick Fratantonio, Eurecom, France
  • Bjorn de Sutter, Gent, BE
  • Kevin Borgolte, UC SB
  • Nathan Dautenhahn, U Penn, USA
  • Thurston Dang, UC Berkeley, USA

Social Networks & Crowdsourcing

Vice-Chairs

  • Daniele Quercia, Bell Labs, UK
  • Ilias Leontiadis, Telefonica Research, Spain

TPC Members

  • Adriana lamnitchi, Univ. of South Florida
  • Andrea Passarella, CNR
  • Bimal Viswanath, UCSB
  • Bruno Goncalves, New York University
  • Bruno Lepri, FBK
  • Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge
  • David Garcia, Complexity Science Hub Vienna
  • Dionysios Logothetis, Facebook
  • Elizabeth Belding, UCSB
  • Emiliano Decristofaro, UCL
  • Fabrizio Marozzo, DIMES – University of Calabria
  • Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary
  • Haewoon Kwak, QCRI
  • Leonardo Maccari, University of Trento
  • Lucamaria Aiello, Nokia Bell Labs
  • Marco Denadai, University of Trento
  • Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM
  • Nicolas Kourtellis, Tefefonica Research
  • Nishanth Sastry, Kings College
  • Rijurekha Sen, MPI-SWS
  • Rossano Schifanella, University of Torino
  • Stefanie Roos, University of Waterloo
  • Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden
  • Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Yelena Mejovo, QCRI
  • Jeremy Blackburn, University of Alabama Birmingham

Special Tracks TPC Chairs and TPC Members

Industry and Experimentation

Vice-Chairs

  • Roger Barga, Amazon Web Services, USA
  • Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Research Almaden, USA

TPC Members

  • Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM, USA
  • Dean Hildebrand, Google, USA
  • Benjamin Mercier, Amazon Web Services, USA
  • Roger Barga, Amazon Web Services, USA
  • Gong Zhang, Oracle, USA
  • Shicong Meng, Uber USA
  • Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT & T, USA
  • Bhuvan Bamba, Blue Owl Technology, USA
  • Umesh Deshpande, IBM, USA
  • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
  • Vasily Tarasov, IBM, USA
  • Partha Kanuparthy, Amazon, USA
  • Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu, Japan
  • Ioannis Koltsidas, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland

Applications & Experiences

Vice-Chairs

  • Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge
  • Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

TPC Members

  • Saritha Arunkumar, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London, IBM UK Limited
  • Dipyaman Banerjee, IBM India Private Limited
  • Anu Bourgeois, Georgia State University
  • Xiaoning Ding, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Ioana Giurgiu, IBM Research – Zurich
  • Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs – Research
  • Tianbo Gu, University of California, Davis
  • Yang Guo, NIST
  • Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Kisung Lee, Louisiana State University
  • Shen Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Fei Li, George Mason University
  • Qi Li, Tsinghua University
  • Yeon-Sup Lim, IBM
  • Irene Manotas, IBM
  • Rolando Martins, University of Porto
  • Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent
  • Lukas Rupprecht, IBM
  • Nishanth Sastry, King’s College London
  • Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchatel
  • Qingyang Wang, Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge
  • Di Wu, Hunan University
  • Li Xiao, Michigan State University
  • Jing Zhao, The Pennsylvania State University

Vision & Blue Sky Thinking

Vice-Chairs

  • Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA
  • Maarten van Steen, University of Twente, Netherlands
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa, NII and University of Tokyo, Japan

Short Papers

Vice-Chairs

  • Lydia Y Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland
  • Guillaume Pierre, University of Rennes, France

TPC Members

  • Aibek Musaev, The University of Alabama
  • Han Rui, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Katinka Wolter, Free University Berlin
  • Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon
  • Dennis Andriesse, VU University Amsterdam
  • Michael Sheng, Macquarie University
  • Cheng Wang, Penn State University
  • Cigdem Sengul, Nominet
  • Rong Ge, Clemson University
  • Paolo Romano, INESC
  • Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University
  • Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS CNRS
  • Vinay Boddula, University of Georgia
  • Niklas Carlsson, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Juan Fernando Perez Bernal, Universidad del Rosario
  • Carmelo Ragusa, SAP
  • Kévin Huguenin, University of Lausanne
  • Robert Birke, ABB Research
  • Ji Xue, Google NYC
  • Yueshen Xu, Xidian University,
  • Olivier Marin, NYU Shanghai

Demonstration and Posters

Vice-Chairs

  • Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

TPC Members

  • Nathalie Baracaldo, IBM Research, USA
  • Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
  • Liting Hu, Florida International University, USA
  • Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business
  • Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
  • Suzanne McIntosh, NYU Courant Institute, and Cloudera Inc.
  • Aziz Mohaisen, University of Central Florida
  • Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA