Edouard Bugnion

Expertise Computer Systems, Data center infrastructure and networking, Operating systems, Virtualization Prof. Edouard Bugnion is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Communications at EPFL. His primary focus in both teaching and research lies in the field of datacenter systems. Before joining EPFL in 2012, he spent 18 years in the US, during which he earned his PhD from Stanford University and co-founded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). He served as VMware's first CTO and was later the VP/CTO of Cisco's Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group. Prof. Bugnion is an ACM Fellow, a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW), and a recipient of the ACM software systems award. Prof Bugnion served as EPFL Vice President for Information Systems between 2017 and 2020 and as a Director of InnoSuisse from 2017 until 2024. As of January 2025, he holds the position of Vice President for Innovation and Impact at EPFL. He additionally serves as an independent Director on the boards of Logitech and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).Current Research I am generally interested in all aspects of data center systems. Together with my students, we are currently active in projects focused on :Datacenter efficiency, with a focus on infrastructure support in network and data planes for OLDI applications.System security, with a focus on building solutions from Trusted Execution Environments offered in hardware. Education Ph.D. | Computer Science 1994 – 2012 Stanford University Dipl.-Ing. | Informatik 1994 – 1994 ETHZ Professionals experiences Founder & CTO 1998–2005 VMware, Palo Alto, CA, USAFounder & CTO 2005–2008 Nuova Systems, San Jose, CA, USAVP & CTO, Data Center Division 2008–2011 Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USAMember of board of Directors 2017–2024 InnoSuisseMember of the Board of Directors 2015–2025 Logitech, IncMember of the Board of Directors 2018–2025 ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross ResearchPublications Links EPFL infoscience (only 2012 ) Google scholarDBLP Teaching & PhD PhD Students Neelu Shivprakash Kalani, Rui Yang, Charly Castes, Yuchen Qian Past EPFL PhD Students Stanko Novakovic, George Prekas, Sam David Whitlock, Mia Primorac, Marios Kogias, Adrien Ghosn, Seyedmahyar Emami, Konstantinos Prasopoulos Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Alexandros Daglis, Jonas Fietz, Marios Kogias Awards ACM Software System Award 2009 Elected Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2017 Member of SATW 2018