Gustavo Alonso

Since April 1998 Gustavo Alonso has been Assistant Professor and since October 2001 he has been Full Professor at the Institute for Pervasive Computing, Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Gustavo Alonso is from Madrid, Spain, where he completed in 1989 his undergraduate studies in Telecommunications Engineering at the Madrid Technical University (UPM-ETSIT). During his studies he was awarded the IEEE AFH Student Best Paper Award and the Hewlett-Packard Eurostudent Award. As an undergraduate, he also spent several months in the Optoelectronics Division of Hewlett-Packard in San Jose, California, working as a computer engineer. As a Fulbright student, he did his graduate studies in computer science (M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994) in the University of California at Santa Barbara. After graduating, he was a visiting scientist in the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory in San Jose, California, where he worked within the Exotica project in areas such as workflow management and transaction processing. In September 1995 he joined the Database Research Group at ETH Zurich, where he lead several projects in databases, workflow management, replication, and advanced applications.

Currently, Gustavo Alonso leads the Information and Communication Systems Research Group. The research interests of the group include parallel and distributed systems, databases, workflow management, scientific applications of database and workflow technology (for geographic and biochemical data), transaction management, as well as database replication, availability and scalability.

Courses taught

Data Modelling and Databases