Aikaterini Argyraki

Expertise Network systems I'm an associate professor of Computer Science at EPFL, heading the Network Architecture Lab. My focus is network transparency and predictability. Prior to joining EPFL, I was an early employee at Arista Networks and I got my PhD from Stanford University (2007). Teaching & PhD PhD Students Muhammad Abdullah, Mahdi Hosseini, Catalina Paz Alvarez Inostroza, Eric Jollès Past EPFL PhD Students Mihai Dobrescu, Iris Safaka, Ovidiu Sebastian Mara, George Ioannidis, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Jonas Fietz, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Georgia Fragkouli, Zeinab Shmeis Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Denisa Gabriela Ghita, Sam David Whitlock, Mia Primorac, Rishabh Iyer Courses Computer systems CS-202 This course will teach operating systems and networks in an integrated fashion,emphasising the fundamental concepts and techniques that make their interaction possible/practical. Core lectures will be coupled with C programming lectures and assignments for hands-on experience. Principles of computer systems CS-522 This advanced graduate course teaches the key design principles underlying successful computer and communication systems, and shows how to solve real problems with ideas, techniques, and algorithms from operating systems, networks, databases, programming languages, and computer architecture. Awards Polysphère IC Teaching Award Given once a year to an IC teacher by student vote. 2025 ACM SIGCOMM Best Student Paper Award For "Edge Caching as Differentiation" with Muhammad Abdullah and Pavlos Nikolopoulos. 2025 Polysphère IC Teaching Award Given once a year to an IC teacher by student vote. 2022 IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize Recognizes "the best recent results in applied networking, interesting new research ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards community, and upcoming people that are likely to have an impact on Internet standards and technology." 2020 Rising Stars in Networking and Communications By the N2Women society. 2020 Polysphère IC Teaching Award Given once a year to an IC teacher by student vote. 2019 IC Teaching Award By the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for consistent excellence in teaching. 2018 ACM Eurosys Jochen Liedke Young Researcher Award Given by ACM Eurosys once a year to a "junior European researcher who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research." 2016 IC Teaching Award By the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for consistent excellence in teaching. 2014 USENIX NSDI Best Paper Award For "Software Dataplane Verification" with Mihai Dobrescu 2014 Starting Grant By the Swiss National Science Foundation. 2014 ACM SOSP Best Paper Award For "RouteBricks: Exploiting Paralelism to Scale Software Routers" with Mihai Dobrescu et al. 2009