Autumn Meeting of the GI Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (October 8–9, 2026)
Our chair is pleased to host this year’s Autumn Meeting of the GI Special Interest Group „Operating Systems” (FGBS). The…
Attending SOSP 2026 in Prague
From September 28 to October 2, the SOSP Conference (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles) took place in Prague. This year,…
Attending EuroSys 2026 in Edinburgh
From 27 April 2026 to 30 April 2026, the EuroSys conference, together with numerous workshops, took place in Edinburgh. This…
CPS-IoT-Week 2026 in Saint Malo
Last week, from May 11 to 14, 2026, CPS-IoT Week took place in Saint-Malo, featuring SenSys, RTAS, ICCPS/HSCC, as well…
Annual Retreat in Sulzbürg
From March 3 to 6, the staff of the Chair of Computer Science 4 (System Software) gathered in Sulzbürg for…
Apply for a student internship now!
We are excited to announce a new student scholarship opportunity during summer 2026. This scholarship is initially granted for up…
Spring Meeting of the GI Working Group “Operating Systems” 2026 in Düsseldorf
This year’s Spring Meeting of the GI working group “Operating Systems” took place in Düsseldorf on February 26 and 27.…
Laura Lawniczak’s Doctoral Defense
On February 16, Laura Lawniczak successfully defended her dissertation titled “Practical State-Machine Replication for Small-Scale Systems” (Praxisnahe Ansätze für Zustandsmaschinenreplikation…
Two Papers and Best Presentation Award at RTSS 2025
The Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), which is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems, took place in Boston,…
Participation in the DARE 2025 Summer School
During the week of September 8–12, our employees Harald Böhm and Paul Bergmann took part in the 3rd ACM Europe…
1. Zephyr in Science and Education Conference in Jena
On September 23 and 24, 2025, our employees Eva Dengler, Thomas Preisner, and Peter Wägemann attended the 1st Zephyr in…
Promotion Phillip Raffeck
On 22nd September 2025, Phillip Raffeck successfully defended his dissertation with the title Predictable Execution for Device-Bound Embedded Systems with…
vNV-Heap presented at LCTES 2025 in Seoul
Markus Gerber presented the evolution of his bachelor’s thesis at LCTES 2025. The resulting paper, entitled “vNV-Heap: An Ownership-Based Virtually…
Two New Research Internship Positions with PhD Track Opportunity
We are excited to announce two open research internship positions — each offering a clear path to a fully-funded PhD…
EuroSys/ASPLOS 2025
The I4 was able to score three papers at the Workshops associated with EuroSys/ASPLOS. Dustin Nguyen presented his work Honey,…
GI Women and Computer Science 2025 Award for Eva Dengler
To our great pleasure, the master’s thesis “Clock-Tree–Aware Resource-Consumption Models for Embedded SoC Platforms” by our colleague Eva Dengler was…
Klausurtagung at Chiemsee
From 25 to 28 February, the members of the Chair of Computer Science 4 (Systems Software) met for their annual…
Middleware Conference 2024
In the first week of December, Laura Lawniczak and Maximilian Seidler attended the Middleware conference in Hong Kong. Maximilian, together…
Christmas Party 2024
On Tuesday 17 December, students and staff met with their partners for a joint Christmas party at the department. The…
Fachgruppentreffen ’24 in Stuttgart
This year’s Herbsttreffen of the SYS division took place at the University of Stuttgart on October 24 and 25. On…
VeriFence presented at this year’s LPC and RAID
Last month, Luis has presented his recent work on improved Spectre mitigations for Linux eBPF at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC)…
ECRTS 2024 in Lille
Last week, Eva Dengler took part at the ECRTS in Lille, France. She presented our work “Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control…
HotCarbon 2024
The third edition of the HotCarbon workshop takes place today in Santa Cruz, California. Our chair participates with the paper…
LCTES/PLDI 2024
Last week, Phillip Raffeck attented the PLDI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the co-hosted conference LCTES he presented our paper…
CPS-IoT Week 2024
From May 13th to May 16th a number of conferences and workshops took place during the Cyper-Physical Systems and Internet…
Participation at Eurosys’24
A group from our chair attended the Eurosys 2024 in Athens from April 22 to 25. The largest European conference…
Promotion Signe Schwarz-Rüsch
Signe Schwarz-Rüsch successfully defended her dissertation Blockchain-Based Architectures for Decentralized Data Access. Before joining the i4, Signe worked as research…
Spring meeting of the Special Interest Group
On March 14 and 15, Timo Hönig (Ruhr Universität Bochum) and Peter Ulbrich (TU Dortmund) jointly hosted this year’s spring…
Doctorate Defense Tobias Langer
On March 7, Tobias Langer successfully defended his dissertation Software-based Memory Consistency Mechanisms for Non-Coherent Many-Core Systems, which he wrote…
Retreat Schwanberg
From February 27 to 29, the staff of the Chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint…
Doctorate Defense Michael Eischer
Just before Christmas, on Wednesday, December 20th, Michael Eischer successfully defended his dissertation Geo-Replicated Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication with Low…
Christmas party
On Tuesday, December 5, students and staff met up with their partners for a Christmas party at the Aquarium. The…
Promotion Andreas Ziegler
On Friday, Andreas Ziegler successfully defended his dissertation Automated Tailoring of System Software Stacks on the application-oriented tailoring of Linux…
PLOS/SOSP 2023
Members of the I4’s research staff have recently visited this year’s ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’23) in Koblenz.…
New Software Abstractions for Hardware Security Technology
Just in time before the new term starts, Prof. Pascal Felber in cooperation with ETH Zürich and co-organizers Prof. Rüdiger…
Retirement of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat
After more than 20 years as a full professor at the Chair of Computer Science 4 at FAU, Professor Dr.-Ing.…
Graduate Award of the GI Special Interest Group on Operating Systems to Eva Dengler
Our former student assistant Eva Dengler has won the Graduate Award 2023 of the GI Special Interest Group on Operating…
Fall meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group
On September 28 and 29, Michael Engel invited to this year’s fall meeting of the Operating Systems Group at the…
PhD Defense Stefan Reif
On Monday, Stefan Reif successfully defended his PhD thesis with the topic “Estimable and Scalable Coordination of Multithreaded Processes”. Congratulations!
Works Outing 2023
Instead of research projects and lectures, an excursion of our chairs to Franconian Swiss was on the agenda at July…
ECRTS 2023
Our chair was represented with substantial contributions at the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023) in Vienna: On…
ATC/OSDI 2023
On Monday, July 10, Bernhard Heinloth presented his research paper Luci: Loader-based Dynamic Software Updates for Off-the-shelf Shared Objects on…
Race24 in Kelheim
From July 8th to 9th the oldest 24-hour road bike race took place in Kelheim. In this race a 17km…
DSN 2023
Tobias Distler presented Micro Replication a novel design concept for fault-tolerant state machines, at the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference…
ARCS 2023
On June 14, Dustin Nguyen presented the research paper Back to the Core-Memory Age: Running Operating Systems in NVRAM only…
Visit at EuroSys’23
A delegation from our chairs took part in EuroSys 2023 in Rome from 8 to 12 May. As one of…
New colleagues
Maxim, Thomas and Harald started this month as new research assistants at the chair. All of them supported us during…
Brazilian scientist visiting the chair
Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Director of the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) and Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina…
Spring meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group
On March 6 and 7, Prof. Horst Schirmeier hosted this year’s spring meeting in Dresden, the city of the inventors…
Brazilian doctoral fellows arrive at the chair
On March 2, José Luis Conradi Hoffmann and Leonardo Passig Horstmann, PhD students under the supervision of Antônio Augusto Fröhlich…
GI Women and Computer Science 2023 Award for Henriette Hofmeier
All good things come in twos: Once again, our former student employee Henriette Hofmeier was able to win a sponsorship…
Retreat in Drübeck
At the beginning of the lecture-free period, the staff of the two chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met…
ASQF Sponsorship Award to Henriette Hofmeier
Our former student assistant Henriette Hofmeier has won the ASQF (Arbeitskreis Software-Qualität und -Fortbildung e.V.) Sponsorship Award 2023 with her…
Middleware 2022
Three papers with participation of Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza were published at this year’s Middleware conference in Quebec City, Canada: SplitBFT:…
New in our team: Eva Dengler
As a student, Eva Dengler not only supported us as a tutor, but was also involved in the InvasIC research…
Saving energy in laboratory systems
The energy crisis requires a comprehensive analysis of electricity consumption in search of potential savings in university facilities. The several…
Fall meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group
On September 19 and 20, the fall meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group took place in Erlangen, where current…
50 years Chair of Computer Science 4
The Adhoc Committee on the Supraregional Research Program in Computer Science of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science recommended…
New Chair of Computer Science 16
On September 1, the chair Department of Computer Science 16 / System Software started its work under the direction of…
Works Outing 2022
After a break of 2 years due to the pandemic, the team at the Chair of Computer Science 4 was…
Vice world champion in robot soccer
The robot soccer team of the university has won the title of runner-up in the Small Size League at this…
OSPERT 2022/ECRTS 2022
Phillip Raffeck attended OSPERT workshop and the ECRTS conference in Modena, Italy this week. At the workshop he presented our…
Start of summer semester 2022
We start the summer semester 2022 with a newly designed website and a wide range of courses. After more than…
Corona situation at the start of the semester
According to the FAU hygiene measures (as of April 8), a minimum distance of 1.5m should always be maintained as…
New in our team: Maximilian Ott
Maximilian Ott, who already worked in our operating system section during his studies (and also as a tutor for many…
New web page
To provide a web site that is barrier-free and conform to the FAU Corporate Design, the Chair of Computer Science…