Peter Druschel

Distributed Systems Group
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Campus E1.4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Tel: +49 681 9303 9100
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Peter Druschel is the founding director of the institute. He also leads the distributed systems research group. Prior to joining the MPI-SWS in August 2005, Peter was a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, TX. He also spent time with the SRC group at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) (May-June 2000, June 2002), the Cambridge Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK (August- December 2000), and the PDOS group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (January-June 2001).

Peter received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1994, under the direction of Larry L. Peterson. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (1995), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2000), and the 2008 Mark Weiser Award. He is on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) and has served as program chair for OSDI and NSDI. Together with Antony Rowstron and Frans Kaashoek, he started the IPTPS series of workshops. Peter is a member of the Academia Europaea and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Research

Peter's research interests are in understanding, designing and building computer systems, particularly distributed systems, networks and operating systems. Current projects focus on dependable decentralized systems, cooperative computing and communication, and social networks.

Current projects:

Accountability for distributed systems
Online social networks
SAAR: cooperative content distribution
PodBase: managing personal devices
FreePastry : an open-source structured overlay network, DHT and applications (PAST, SCRIBE, SplitStream)

Past projects:

IRIS: Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems
Safari: Ad hoc network infrastructure and services
ePOST A secure, cooperative, serverless email system
FeedTree : Collaborative micronews delivery
Pastry/PAST: Large-scale, decentralized, cooperative peer-to-peer systems
ScalaServer: System support for scalable network servers

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Teaching and Lectures

Speaker, TECS Week 2009
Invited Speaker, Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2008)
Operating Systems (Summer 2009)
Speaker, Winter School: Hot Topics in Distributed Computing
Data Networks (Summer 2007)

Professional activities

Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Program chair, 23rd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011)
Program co-chair, 4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2007)
Program co-chair, 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02)
Program co-chair, 5th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002)

Recent program committees

Funding

Our research is currently supported by the Max Planck Society, the US National Science Foundation, the Texas Advanced Technology Program, the Sloan Foundation, HP, IBM, and Intel.