Associate Professor of Computer Science

School of Computer & Communication Sciences

EPFL - IC - DSLAB

Room INN-330, Station 14

1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

george.candea@epfl.ch

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Service

• Program committee chair DSN 2013 (DCCS)  
• Selected program committees: SOSP (2013, 2011), OSDI (2010), ASPLOS (2010), EUROSYS (2012, 2011, 2009), USENIX (2011, 2009, 2007), CIDR (2013), SOCC (2012), DSN (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), HOTOS (2013, 2009, 2007).  
• Vice-chair of ACM SIGOPS (2011-2013) 

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Biography

George Candea heads the Dependable Systems Lab, where he focuses on practical ways of achieving reliability and security in complex software systems. His work's main focus is on real-world large-scale systems, with millions of lines of code and hundreds of threads, written by hundreds of programmers—going from a small program to a large system introduces fundamental challenges that cannot be addressed with the techniques that work at small scale. In the past, George was also CTO and then Chief Scientist of Aster Data (now Teradata Aster), a Silicon Valley-based data analytics company he co-founded in 2005. Prior to that, George held positions at Oracle, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research. He is the recipient of an ERC StG award (2011) and the M.I.T. TR35 Young Innovators award (2005). He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2005 and his B.S. (1997) and M.Eng. (1998) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.