Jan Rellermeyer

Jan S. Rellermeyer serves as a full professor in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Leibniz University Hannover, where he heads the Dependable and Scalable Software Systems section. His academic journey includes an MSc and Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, followed by significant roles at IBM Research in Austin, TX, where he worked as a researcher while simultaneously serving as an adjunct assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin, teaching operating systems and programming languages. His research focuses on optimizing big data analysis on modern computers and data center infrastructure, with particular expertise in distributed systems, resource management, middleware, and cloud computing. As project lead for the Eclipse Concierge project, he has advanced the development of small-footprint implementations of the OSGi Core Specification for mobile and embedded devices. His work spans various applications including scientific computing, big data processing, distributed machine learning, and business-critical applications, contributing significantly to the field of dependable and scalable software systems.