ProfessorWilly Zwaenepoel

BS/MS Ghent University (1979), MS Stanford University (1980), PhD Stanford University (1984)

I am looking for Ph.D. students and potentially also for postdocs.

Professor Willy Zwaenepoel is a well-established global leader in experimental computer science research, with a particular interest in distributed systems and operating systems.

Born in Belgium, Professor Zwaenepoel studied at Ghent University before completing his master's and doctorate degrees at Stanford. He spent almost two decades at Rice University in the United States, before spending nine years as dean of EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences. Professor Zwaenepoel joined the faculty as Dean in July 2018.

Professor Zwaenepoel is a Fellow of ACM, ATSE and IEEE. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and research. He has been an advisor to Nutanix (Nasdaq:NTNX), and his research has led to two startups, iMimic and BugBuster, both acquired by Cisco.