Prof.dr.ir. Cav. Alexandru Iosup is a full professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), and the chair of the VU research group Massivizing Computer Systems and the VU Computer Science Honours Programme. He is also co-chair of the national IPN SIG on Future Computer Systems and Networking and elected chair of the international SPEC RG Cloud Group.
His fascination for massivizing distributed systems and ecosystems across the digital computing continuum, with applications in cloud computing, big data and graphs, scientific and business-critical computing, AI and ML/LLMs, and the metaverse, has received prestigious recognition, including membership in the (Young) Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Netherlands and the Netherlands ICT Researcher of the Year award. He received a Ph.D. from TU Delft. These are accompanied by over 200 peer-reviewed publications, numerous open science artifacts, such as FAIR software, datasets, and archives, with high scientific and technical impact, and hundreds of young researchers supervised directly toward their staff, PhD, MSc, BSc, and Honours research projects. Further, Dr. Iosup’s leadership, passion, and innovation in education led to awards, including the prestigious Netherlands Higher Education Teacher of the Year. Alexandru has also received a knighthood for cultural and scientific merits. Contact Alexandru at A.Iosup@vu.nl or visit https://atlarge-research.com/aiosup/
