For New Students

We are always looking for new students to join our team.

Is this for You?

If you ever wondered how to design, develop, and deploy an awesome global system, how to understand and analyze its properties, why your experiments show different results on each evaluation, why debugging distributed systems is so difficult, or what it would take to make your computer 100-1,000,000 times faster, then you are a perfect fit with our research group. You are invited to join.

How to Join?

Contact join@atlarge-research.com to join us!

Let's start our collaboration! We have for you a diverse selection of bachelor projects, masters thesis projects, stand-alone research projects, and variety of topics for literature surveys. These projects are part of our cutting-edge research on distributed (eco)systems, storage and networking.

What Can We Do Together?

Our general philosophy is that we want to help everybody develop to their true potential, and not waste their talent.

Don't worry if you don't have all the skills at the start of the project. That's what we're here for. We have a strong focus on training students like you to become top-notch computer scientists. For example, our team of experts will help you onboard quickly, give you technical advice, help you formulate new concepts, explore with you design alternatives, etc.

You can make a mark in the scientific world, and at the same time help our research group get real-world impact through a strong scientific and technical contribution. The following publications are the direct result of AtLarge student projects from the last few years:

Thesis Advice

There are a couple of things to take into account when doing a thesis with us. All master and bachelor students, please thoroughly read vu_thesis_template_advice.pdf. There are three things that need to be present in each thesis and are often forgotten:

1. Please include a declaration of the original work in your thesis (https://vu.nl/en/student/examinations/academic-integrity): Put a statement like "I confirm that this thesis work is my own work, is not copied from any other source (person, Internet, or machine), and has not been submitted elsewhere for assessment." You can make a new subsection in the introduction titled "Plagiarism Declaration". If you copied the content in the thesis from your own past work, clearly put that in this section.
2. Make an artifact appendix, https://github.com/ctuning/ck-artifact-evaluation/blob/master/wfe/artifact-evaluation/templates/ae.tex -- Please include and fill up this Appendix in your thesis. Put a direct link to the github repo in the abstract. Please see examples of how to do this in our bachelor/master thesis highlights.
3. Make a subsection in the introduction, "Societal Relevance" and discuss how your work connects to the societal concerns discussed explicitly in the Dutch Computer Systems Manifesto: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03259.

Links

Highlights

A small highlight of the work we have supervised.

Master Theses

Bachelor Theses

Literature Surveys

Supervised work

An overview of all supervised work.

Master Theses

Bachelor Theses

Literature Surveys