Full Professor and Chair
Technical University of Munich
Email: pramod.bhatotia@tum.de
I am a Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Previously, I was a Professor at the University of Edinburgh. I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).
I also actively worked in several industrial research labs, most recently as the Founding Technical Director of the Huawei Dresden Research Center. Previously, I worked with Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Yahoo! Research, Adobe Systems, and Bell Labs.
Research Interests
My research interests span computer systems, including distributed systems, cloud computing, operating systems, virtualization, compilers, quantum computing, dependable systems, and system security. I enjoy building systems to solve practical problems. My primary focus is building reliable, secure, scalable computer systems.
Publications
Please find the list of publications here.
Talks
Please find the list of invited talks here.
Honor and Awards
- ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant, 2025
- DSN Rising Star in Dependability Award, 2024
- (2×) Intel Research Awards, 2024 & 2025
- NVIDIA Research Award, 2023
- (2×) Google Research Awards, 2023 & 2023
- EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, 2023
- ERC Starting Grant, 2022
- Alexander von Humboldt Henriette Herz-Scout Award, 2021
- (2×) Microsoft Research Awards, 2021 & 2019
- (6×) Huawei Research Awards, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024, & (2×) 2025
- Huawei Research Rising Star, 2020
- Teaching Award at the University of Edinburgh, 2019
- UK’s Hardware Security Institute (UK RISE) Research Award, 2018
- ARM Research Award, 2017
- Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, UK 2017-2021
- Scottish Computer Society’s (SICSA) Young Researcher Award, 2017
- Microsoft Azure Research Award, 2017
- Max Planck Society, Summa cum laude for the PhD thesis, 2015
- Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) Fellowship, 2009
- HPCC Supercomputing Award for RandomAccess benchmark on BlueGene/P, 2008
- Best Master Thesis Award, Student Research Symposium at ACM/IEEE HiPC, 2008
- Award papers:
- Nominated for Best Student Paper Award at SC’25
- Distinguished Artifact Award at ASPLOS’23
- (2x) Artifact Awards at EuroSys’22
- Best Paper Award Runner-up at DSN’22
- Best Paper Award at EuroSys’17
- Highlighted Paper at SYSTOR’17
- Community Choice Award at Hadoop Summit’15
- Best Student Paper Award at Middleware’14
- Best Paper Award at HiPC’10
Service
Organizer
- General (Co-)Chair: HotOS 2027, SOSP 2026, EuroSys 2021
- PC Co-Chair: EuroSys 2027, SYSTOR 2025, Middleware 2023, ICDCS (Dependability) 2018
- Steering Committee: Middleware (2025-2028), EuroSys (2022-2025)
- Associate Editor: Communications of the ACM 2022-2024, Encyclopedia of Big Data 2018
- Workshop/Tutorial Chair: SOSP 2023, EuroSys 2018
Scientific Reviewer
- European Research Council (ERC) — StG, CoG, and Adv grants
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Max Planck Graduate Center for Computer Science
Jury Member
- British Computer Society (BCS) Distinguished Dissertation
- EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
Program Committee Member