About me
I am Valerio Schiavoni, Professeur titulaire and Maître d’enseignement et de recherche (MER) in the Complex Systems Group at the University of Neuchâtel.
I coordinate the CUSO Inter-University Doctoral Program in Computer Science for 2025–2026. I also serve as Vice-Chair of the IFIP TC 6.1 Working Group and DAIS Steering Chair.
Research projects
Projects I have worked on or currently work on:
- SNSF CIRCULA, PI (2027-2030)
- SNSF P4, Co-PI (2024-2028)
- CHIST-ERA REDONDA, PI (2023-2026)
- CHIST-ERA SCEAL Co-PI, (2025-2027)
- VEDLIoT (2020-2023)
- SNSF PersiST (2018-2022)
- ERDF Angainor (2018-2021)
- H2020 LEGaTo (2017-2020)
- H2020 SecureCloud (2015-2018)
- H2020 SafeCloud (2015-2018)
- SNSF Trustworthy Cloud Storage (2012-2016)
- SNSF MistNet (2010-2012)
PhD supervision
2026–2029
Lara Lazier — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber and Aritra Dhar (Huawei Research, Zurich)
2026–2029
Alessio Petrone (UniNe) — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber
2026–2029
Salvatore Busiello (UniNe) — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber
2026–2029
Michèle Fischer (UniNe) — co-supervision with Pr Philippe Brunner
2025–2028
Quentin Voiret — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber, Pr Bertrand Ducourthial, and Oliver Schoefs (Université de technologie de Compiègne, France)
2025–2029
Mehmet Cihan Sakman (UniNe) — co-supervision with Josef Spillner, ZHAW
2024–2027
Victoire Nganfang — Université de Rennes 1, co-supervision with Pr David Bromberg (France)
2023–2026
Vincenzo Di Perna — visiting from Università di Camerino (Italy)
2022–2026
Simon Queyrut — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber, UniNE
2022–2025
Pasquale De Rosa — co-supervision with Pr Pascal Felber, UniNE
2024–2025
Lorenzo Brescia — visiting from Università di Torino (Italy)
2019–2024
Peterson Yuhala — co-supervision with Pascal Felber, UniNE
2019–2023
Panagiotis Gkikopoulos — co-supervision with Josef Spillner, ZHAW, and Peter Kropf, UniNe PhD Network in Data Science
2018–2022
Christian Gottel — co-supervision with Pascal Felber, UniNE
2018–2021
Isabelly Rocha — co-supervision with Pascal Felber, UniNE
2016–2020
Dorian Burihabwa — co-supervision with Pascal Felber, UniNE
Academic service
Leadership and coordination
I serve as Vice-Chair of the IFIP TC 6.1 Working Group and DAIS Steering Chair. DAIS 2027 will take place in Augsburg, Germany.
I coordinate the CUSO Inter-University Doctoral Program in Computer Science for 2025–2026, and previously held this role from 2019 to 2021. I was also coordinator of the Competence Centre in Complex Systems and Big Data.
Steering committees
- Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) — since 2026.
- ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference — since 2025.
- Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) — since 2025.
- International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec) — since 2025, chair for DAIS.
Conference service
2027
SIGOPS ATC 2027 (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair) · IEEE SRDS'27 General Chair · ACM DEBS 2027 (PC Co-Chair) · EuroSys'27 (TPC) · DSN'27 (TPC) · DADS'27 (TPC)
2026
OPODIS'26 (TPC) · EuroSys'26 (TPC) · SRDS 2026 (TPC) · ESORICS 2026 (TPC) · EuroPar'26 (TPC) · DEBS'26 PhD Symposium (Chair) · DEBS'26 (TPC) · ICDCS'26 (TPC, Big Data models and Systems track) · DSN'26 (TPC) · DAIS'26 (TPC) · Middleware'26 [Industry Track] (TPC) · Middleware'26 (TPC)
Previous service · 2025–2010
2025
IEEE SRDS'25 PC Co-Chair · SoCC 2025 (TPC) · Middleware'25 (TPC) · SSS'25 (TPC) · IFIP DAIS'25 (TPC) · IEEE ICDCS'25 (TPC, Big Data models and Systems track) · EDCC'25 (TPC) · EuroSys'25 (TPC) · DADS'25 (TPC)
2024
OPODIS'24 (Proceedings Chair) · ACM Middleware'24 (PC Co-Chair) · IEEE PRDC'24 (PC Co-Chair) · SRDS'24 PhD Forum (Co-Chair) · SRDS'24 (TPC) · ACM SoCC'24 (TPC) · DSN'24 (TPC) · EuroSys'24 (Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair) · DADS'24 (TPC)
2023
ACM SoCC'23 (TPC) · OPODIS'23 (TPC) · DAIS'23 (TPC) · Middleware'23 (TPC, and Posters/Demo/PhD Symposium Chair) · DEBS'23 (General Chair) · DSN'23 (TPC) · EuroSys'23 Heavy TPC & Shadow PC Co-Chair
2022
Middleware'22 Doctoral Workshop (TPC) · OPODIS'22 (TPC) · SRECC'22 (TPC) · BlockTEE'22 (Program Chair) · USENIX ATC'22 (Extended Reviewing Committee) · SRDS'22 (Workshop Co-Chair) · DAIS'22 (TPC) · DEBS'22 (TPC) · EuroSys'22 (Heavy TPC, Doctoral Workshop Co-Chair, Session Chair) · DSN'22 (TPC) · DADS'22 (TPC)
2021
IEEE CCEM'21 (TPC) · IC2E'21 (TPC) · SRDS'21 (TPC) · DAIS'21 (TPC) · Middleware'21 (TPC, Doctoral Workshop TPC) · CCGrid'21 (TPC)
2020
OPODIS'20 (TPC) · SRDS'20 (TPC) · Middleware'20 (TPC, Session Chair, Doctoral Workshop TPC) · EDCC'20 (TPC) · DAIS'20 (Program Chair) · EuroSys'20 (Poster Chair, Doctoral Workshop TPC and Mentor) · DADS'20 (TPC)
2019
OPODIS'19 (Organising Chair) · SOSP'19 AE (heavy TPC) · W-PSDS'19 / DRSS'19 / RaSTEES'19 with SRDS'19 (TPC) · DEBS'19 (TPC) · EDCC'19 (TPC) · DAIS'19' (TPC) · DisCoTec'19 (Workshops Co-Chair) · EuroSys'19 (Publication Chair) · DADS'19 (TPC)
2018
W-GCS'18, (General Co-Chair) · Middleware'18 (Industrial Track TPC) · EDCC'18 (Poster Co-Chair) · DSN'18 (TPC Student Forum) · ICDCS'18 (TPC & Session Chair) · SRDS'18 (Poster/Abstract Chair) · EuroSys'18 (Publication Chair) · DAIS'18 (TPC)
2017
SRDS'17 (TPC & Publicity Chair) · DisCoTec'17 (Co-Organizing Chair)
2015
DeSN'15 (TPC) · ICDE'15 (sub-rev.) · PODC'15 (sub-rev) · IEEE Services'15 (TPC)
2014
Middleware'14 (sub-rev) · Euro-Par'14 (sub-rev) · AINA'14 (TPC) · MW4NG'14 (TPC)
2012
IPDPS'12 (sub-rev) · DAIS'12 (sub-rev) · iThings'12 (sub-rev)
2011
DAIS'11 (sub-rev) · Euro-Par'11 (sub-rev)
2010
MajecSTIC'10 (TPC) · Euro-Par'10 (sub-rev)
Journal reviews: ACM TOCS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TDSC, FGCS, PPNA.
Publications and student projects
Browse my publications and past Bachelor and Master student projects:
Contact
Université de Neuchâtel, Institut d’informatique
Rue Emile-Argand 11, office B-125
CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland