Peter Robert Pietzuch Department of Computing Phone: +44 (20) 7594 8314 Imperial College London Fax: +44 (20) 7581 8024 South Kensington Campus E-mail: [email protected] London SW7 2AZ, UK Web: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/∼prp I lead the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) research group at Imperial College London. I am interested in new abstractions and infrastructures for efficient, secure and robust software systems. My work spans the areas of distributed systems, databases, security and networking. The goal is to support the architecture and imple- mentation of large-scale applications and to address their unique data management and security challenges. Experience Sep 17 – Director of Research, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Aug 17 – Full Professor, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Sep 16 – Sep 17 Deputy Director of Research, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Aug 14 – Aug 17 Reader (Associate Professor), Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Aug 11 – Aug 14 Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Nov 06 – Aug 11 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK Head, Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) Group (http://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk) Apr 04 – Aug 06 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Systems Research Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Jul 02 – Oct 02 Research Intern, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA Research Funding Current funding (ordered by start date) June 18 – May 19 “TFaaS: Trusted Sandboxed Execution of Serverless Functions” $70,000 Principal Investigator Intel This project develops new approaches for securing serverless function-as-a-service clouds using trusted execution. Mar 18 – Feb 19 “Efficient Deep Learning” £441,786 Principal Investigator Huawei This project explores efficiency improvements to the TensorFlow deep learning system. Oct 18 – Sep 22 “Securely and Efficiently Supporting Managed Language Runtimes in Confidential Computing” £116,200 Principal Investigator Microsoft Research PhD Award This PhD award is to carry out research on supporting complex managed language run- times inside of trusted execution environments. Jun 17 - May 19 “Maru: Hardware-Assisted Secure Cloud Computing” £157,619 Principal Investigator Alan Turing Institute The Maru project develops a new software stack for trustworthy big data processing in untrusted cloud environments. Peter Robert Pietzuch 2 Jul 17 – Jun 20 “Hardware Enclave Security” £746,883 Principal Investigator Huawei This project explores the use of trusted execution mechanism offered by modern CPUs in the context of cloud computing. Jan 16 – Dec 18 “SecureCloud: Secure Big Data Processing in Untrusted Clouds” e499,252 Principal Investigator EU Horizon 2020 This project investigates how hardware isolation mechanisms in modern data centre servers can be used for secure data processing in cloud environments. Jan 15 – Jun 18 “Real-time VM Management with Stateful Stream Processing” $74,350 Unrestricted Gift VMware Collaborators: City University London This unrestricted gift is to support research work on the real-time analysis of perfor- mance data in virtualised data centres. Nov 13 – Jun 18 “Complex Event Processing for Big Data applications” £295,000 Principal Investigator BP International Ltd. This project investigates how complex event processing can handle uncertainty in real- world data mining applications. Past funding (ordered by end date) Jan 15 – Mar 18 “SERECA: Secure Enclaves for Reactive Cloud Applications” e630,744 Principal Investigator EU Horizon 2020 This project explores the use of trusted hardware in data centres to provide more secure reactive cloud applications. Jun 13 – Jun 17 “CloudSafetyNet: End-to-end Application Security in the Cloud” £522,570 Principal Investigator EPSRC Grant (EP/K008129) Collaborators: University of Cambridge, NHS The project conducts research on a new platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) middleware that acts as a “safety net”, protecting against security violations in cloud applications. Oct 13 – Mar 17 “NaaS: Network-as-a-Service in the Cloud” £666,149 Principal Investigator EPSRC Grant (EP/K032968) Collaborators: University of Cambridge, University of Nottingham The goal of this project is to develop a new network architecture for data centres that enables Big Data applications to perform computation within the network fabric. Jan 16 – Dec 16 “Meta-Dataflows: Automatic Exploration Steering for Big Data Analysis” $86,570 Unrestricted Gift Google Research Award This project examines new models that can capture the intuition of data scientists when running computation (in particular machine learning algorithms) at scale in data centres. May 13 – Apr 16 “Data Stream Processing in Hybrid Coalition Networks” £233,000 Principal Investigator International Technology Alliance (ITA) US/UK Collaborators: IBM Research US, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The project develops new network-aware techniques for processing data streams in net- works with intermittent connectivity. Jan 15 – Dec 15 “MC-Data-15: Multi Cloud Data Management” £165,000 Principal Investigator EU FP7 ICT Labs This continuation project investigates how techniques for data management across mul- tiple sites can support edge services in mobile networks. Peter Robert Pietzuch 3 Oct 12 – Sep 15 “HARNESS: Hardware- and Network-Enhanced Software Systems for Cloud Computing” e884,840 Co-investigator EU FP7 STREP Collaborators: EPFL, Maxeler, University of Rennes, SAP, ZIB The HARNESS project aims to redesign the cloud software stack to benefit from hetero- geneous hardware technologies for computation, communication and storage. Oct 10 – Sep 15 “Custom Computing for Advanced Digital Systems” £1,259,142 Co-investigator EPSRC Platform Grant (EP/I012036) My work explores how custom computing solutions can improve the performance and security of distributed systems, including stream processing systems. Apr 12 – Mar 15 “Custom & Multicore Technologies for Regular Matching Over Streams” £94,621 Joint Principal Investigator EPSRC CASE Award Collaborators: BAE Systems Detica The goal is to develop new techniques for line rate stream processing. Jan 14 – Dec 14 “MC-Data-14: Multi Cloud Data Management” £130,000 Principal Investigator EU FP7 ICT Labs This continuation project investigates how techniques for data management across mul- tiple sites can support edge services in mobile networks. Oct 11 – Sep 14 “SEEP: Scalable and Elastic Stream Processing” £94,621 Principal Investigator EPSRC CASE Award Collaborators: BAE Systems The project conduct research on extremely scalable software architectures for stream processing platforms with intra-query parallelism. Jan 13 – Dec 13 “MC-Data-13: Multi Cloud Data Management” £40,000 Principal Investigator EU FP7 ICT Labs This project considers data management challenges in multi-cloud environments. May 12 – Apr 13 “CloudFilter: Practical Confinement of Sensitive Data Across Clouds” £135,209 Principal Investigator EPSRC Grant (EP/J020370) Collaborators: Nexor Ltd The project explores novel methods for exercising control over sensitive data propaga- tion across multiple cloud providers. Oct 09 – Sep 12 “Mobile Services for Cloud Computing” £83,213 Principal Investigator Orange Labs UK This project investigates how to partition mobile applications so that they can benefit from remote resources in data centres. Oct 11 – Jun 12 “EEES: Building a Cloud Computing Testbed” £29,070 Principal Investigator EPSRC/Imperial College EEES Grant The funds were use to create a flexible cloud computing testbed. Oct 08 – Mar 12 “SmartFlow: Extendable Event-Based Middleware” £515,840 Principal Investigator EPSRC Grant (EP/F044216) Collaborators: University of Cambridge, National Health Service The project focuses on research into information flow control models to provide an ex- tendable, event-based middleware architecture. Peter Robert Pietzuch 4 Jul 08 – Mar 12 “DISSP: Dependable Internet-Scale Processing” £299,175 Principal Investigator EPSRC Grant (EP/F035217) The goal of the project is to achieve robustness in large-scale stream processing systems in the presence of failures. Dec 10 – Mar 11 “Demonstrating End-to-End Security of NHS Patient Data” £51,907 Principal Investigator EPSRC/Imperial College “Pathways to Impact” Grant The project investigates how information flow control techniques can offer strong secu- rity guarantees in a web-based cancer treatment application deployed by the NHS. May 09 – Jul 10 “Core 5 Research Programme: Enabling Flexible Networks” £128,572 Co-investigator EPSRC and Mobile VCE Grant (EP/G059861) Collaborators: Prof. K Leung (Imperial College), Dr. C Ling (Imperial College) The focus is to develop new approaches for the verification of adaptive, self-managing and self-configuring networks. Feb 08 20 Nokia N80 smartphones Value: £4,000 Hardware Donation Nokia Research, Palo Alto, USA Research Staff and Students — LSDS Group Post-doctoral Researchers Nov 17 – Dr. Huanzhou Zhu May 15 – Dr. Florian Kelbert Jan 15 – Dr. Pierre-Louis Aublin Jul 13 – Dr. Divya Muthukumaran Jun 13 – Dr. Daniel O’Keeffe Oct 12 – Dr. Alexandros Koliousis PhD Students Oct 17 – Mr. Simon Shillaker Oct 17 – Mr. George Theodorakis Oct 15 – Mr. Joshua Lind Oct 14 – Mr. Panagiotis Garafalakis Oct 14 – Mr. Christian Priebe Completed PhD Students Oct 13 – Nov 17 Dr. Pijika Watcharapichat (First employment: Microsoft Research Cambridge) Oct 12 – Sep 16 Dr. Lukas Rupprecht