Awards

For R. Nicolae, in recognition for his academic achievements, both as a student and educator, and for his research contributions in ICT simulation. Awarded by the Faculty of Science (BETA) at VU Amsterdam with "Student Talent Award 2024". Further nominated for the VU-wide Student Talent Award.

Krijn Doekemeijer received the Amsterdam Data Science M.Sc. thesis award 2022 for his thesis "TropoDB: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Optimised KV-Store for NVMe Zoned Namespace Devices". Philipp Sommerhalter received the Amsterdam Data Science B.Sc. thesis award 2022 for his thesis "Labels, Cards, and Simulation-Based Analysis for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Data Centers".

Our paper Empirical Characterization of User Reports about Cloud Failures won the best artifact award at IEEE ACSOS 2021. The artifact can be found on Github.

For Nick-Andian Tehrany, who received the B.Sc. thesis award 2020 from Amsterdam Data Science for his thesis "Evaluating Performance Characteristics of the PMDK Persistent Memory Software Stack".

For G. Andreadis, who was selected best graduate of 2020 for his M.Sc. thesis work and overall study results, by the dean of the EEMCS faculty at TU Delft.

In Nov 2020, the Romanian President recognized and knighted Alexandru Iosup (alongside two others) for our work in promoting the image of Romania in the Netherlands. Alexandru is now a Knight of the Cultural Merit Order of Romania.

For G. Andreadis, in recognition for his research results concluded with his graduate thesis and a Masters degree at TU Delft. Work conducted in collaboration with Solvinity, a high-quality datacenter and hosting management company in the Netherlands.

The work on performance variability lead by our very Alexandru Uta was accepted at NSDI 2020! The first-ever article led by a Dutch institution accepted at NSDI.

For H. He, for the best grades achieved in the first year at a Dutch institution for academic education.

The paper "SenseLE: Exploiting Spatial Locality in Decentralized Sensing Environments" titled co-authored by Alexandru Uta received best paper award at IUCC 2017.

The Next Web and Young Creators elected L. Overweel as one of the most-promising under-25s in the Dutch digital scene.

For L. Overweel, D. Vos and W. Raateland, who created a prototype for a blockchain-based solution for smuggling detection in the Port of Rotterdam.

A. Iosup, for computer science research and related activities.

For A. Iosup, for research breakthroughs in ICT.

For G. Andreadis, for the best grades achieved in the first year at a Dutch institution for academic education.

For A. Iosup, awarded by the Minister of Education and ISO.

For A. Iosup.

For B. Ghit, M. Capota, T. Hegeman, J. Hidders, D.H. J. Epema, and A. Iosup, "V for Vicissitude: The Challenge of Scaling Complex Big Data Workflows".

For A. Iosup, for Technical Leadership ('13) and for Outstanding Service ('12).

For A. Iosup, S. Ostermann, N. Yigitbasi, R. Prodan, Th. Fahringer and D.H.J. Epema, "Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for MTC-Based Scientific Computing", IEEE TPDS 2011.

For D. Kondo, B. Javadi, A. Iosup, D.H.J. Epema, "The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems".

For A. Iosup, "POGGI: Puzzle-Based Online Games on Grid Infrastructure".

For A. Iosup, "GrenchMark: A Framework for Testing Large-Scale Distributed Computing Systems".

For A. Iosup, D.H.J. Epema, T. Tannenbaum, M. Farrellee and M. Livny, "Inter-operating Grids through Delegated MatchMaking".

For P. Garbacki, A. Iosup, D.H.J. Epema, M. van Steen, "2Fast: Collaborative Downloads in P2P Networks".