Organization
The institute was founded in November 2004 and is actively growing. Over the course of the next few years, the institute's scientific staff will grow to 5 directors, 12 tenure-track or tenured professors, and approximately 100 postdocs and doctoral students.
Currently, the institute consists of following research groups:
- Distributed Systems and Operating Systems Group is headed by Peter Druschel.
- Networked Systems Group is headed by Krishna Gummadi.
- Dependable Systems Group is headed by Rodrigo Rodrigues.
- Large Scale Internet Systems Group is headed by Paul Francis.
- Programming Languages and Systems Group is headed by Umut Acar.
- Rigorous Software Engineering Group is headed by Rupak Majumdar.
- Software Analysis and Verification Group is headed by Viktor Vafeiadis.
- Type Systems and Functional Programming Group is headed by Derek Dreyer.
- Information Security and Cryptography Group is headed by Michael Backes.
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