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Bio

Lluís Vilanova is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer in the UK system) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he is co-lead of the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group, and co-founder of the Cloud, Data and Exascale Computing Hub at I-X. His work covers computer architecture, operating systems, and security, with a special interest on using co-design across hardware and software layers to break the zero-sum game we typically find between security and performance.

Previously, Lluís was a post-doctoral researcher with Yoav Etsion at the Technion’s Electrical Engineering department. He received his PhD degree from the Computer Architecture Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he worked under the guidance of Nacho Navarro, while also participating as a researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Research interests

My interests span wide areas of systems research, focusing on efficiency, simplicity, and security:

• Computer architecture
• Operating systems and runtimes
• Virtualization
• Co-design of hardware/software interfaces
• Cloud systems and infrastructures
• Resource management in heterogeneous and parallel systems
• System designs for security and privacy
• Formal methods for building secure systems

You could take a look at my list of publications to get a more precise idea of my research interests.