Prof. Carlos Baquero
FEUP
Portugal
Carlos Baquero is a Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering within FEUP, and area coordinator at the High Assurance Laboratory (HASLab) within INESC TEC. From 1994 till mid-2021 he was affiliated with the Informatics Department, Universidade do Minho, where he concluded his PhD (2000) and Habilitation/Agregação (2018). He currently teaches courses in Operating Systems and Large Scale Distributed Systems. Research interests cover data management in eventual consistent settings, distributed data aggregation and causality tracking. He worked in the development of data summary mechanisms such as Scalable Bloom Filters, causality tracking for dynamic settings with Interval Tree Clocks and Dotted Version Vectors and predictable eventual consistency with Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types. Most of this research has been applied in industry, namely in the Riak distributed database, Redis CRDBs, Akka distributed data and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prof. Annette Bieniusa
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Germany
Prof. Dr. Annette Bieniusa is leading the Software Technology Group at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. Her research area is the semantics and programming abstraction for concurrent and distributed programming, with a focus on replication, synchronization, local-first software, and programming languages. She leads the development of the geo-replicated CRDT database AntidoteDB and is a Scientific Advisor and Architect of the ElectricSQL platform.
Prof. Carla Ferreira
NOVA University of Lisbon
Portugal
Carla Ferreira is an Associated Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and a researcher at NOVA LINCS research centre. Her research focuses on developing formal calculi, techniques, and tools to express and reason about concurrent and distributed systems with the ultimate goal of helping programmers build trustworthy and efficient systems. Currently, she leads the TaRDIS project, a Horizon Europe project centered around the correct and efficient development of applications for swarms and decentralized distributed systems.
Dr. Kevin De Porre
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Kevin De Porre currently works as a founding engineer at ElectricSQL and as a part-time postdoctoral researcher at the VUB. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the VUB in 2022. His research focuses on programming languages and techniques to help programmers design, implement, and verify highly available distributed systems using replicated data types.
Dr. Martin Kleppmann
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Martin Kleppmann is a researcher in distributed systems and security protocols at the Technical University of Munich and at Ink & Switch. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. In a previous life, he was a Silicon Valley software engineer and entrepreneur, cofounding and selling two startups and working on large-scale data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is the author of the best-selling O'Reilly book Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
Prof. Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan
Delft University of Technology
The Nederlands
Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan is an assistant professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the TU Delft Software Engineering Research Group. She received her PhD from Koç University Istanbul, Turkey, followed by postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She has worked on software testing and model checking for concurrent systems, including multithreaded programs, event-based programs, and distributed systems. Her current research focuses on testing implementations of distributed systems and blockchains.
Dr. Marc Shapiro
Sorbonne-Université-LIP6 & INRIA
France
Marc Shapiro's research focuses on the theory and practice of consistency in distributed systems, and on principled approaches to computer system design and implementation. Early in his career, he invented the now-ubiquitous proxy concept. In 2009–2011, he co-invented Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), a class of replicated data types that rigorously ensure convergence, while maintaining availability. Dr Shapiro is an Distinguished Research Scholar (DRCE) Emeritus from Inria, in the Regal group of Sorbonne-Université-LIP6. He did his PhD at U. Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, followed by a post-doc at MIT, research positions at CMIRH and Inria, and a sabbatical at Cornell. In his academic career, he has a history of collaboration with industry. He led the Cambridge Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) for six years. He led the SyncFree European project for highly-available cloud computing and storage, developing the Antidote planet-scale hybrid-consistency database. He authored over 100 international publications in prestigious venues, 18 recognised software systems, and five patents. Dr. Shapiro sat on the PE6/Informatics Panel of the ERC for eight years. A Senior Member of the ACM, is known for his dedication to organising the Informatics community and making its voice heard in Europe. He was instrumental in creating the EuroSys Chapter of the ACM, the EuroSys Conference, and the ACM Europe Council.
Prof. Nuno Preguiça
NOVA University of Lisbon
Portugal
Nuno Preguiça is Full Professor at DI FCT NOVA, and leads the Computer Systems group of the NOVA LINCS research lab. The broad aim of his research is to allow efficient and correct data sharing among geo-distributed users. He has participated in a number of national and EU projects. He co-invented CRDTs and received a Google Research Award for his work on solutions for cloud data management.
