ETOS

Efficient and Trustworthy
Operating, Open-Source, Operational Systems Group

The ETOS group builds and investigates core abstractions and techniques for improving the efficiency and trustworthiness of practical computer systems. We conduct research on operating systems, distributed systems, data privacy, web services, data center infrastructure, compilers, and security. ETOS builds practical, efficient, and easy-to-use working systems, and releases them as open-source software. We are part of the Systems Group at Brown CS.

Check out our publications for more about our current and past research. If you are interested in joining our group, see this page.

News

October 2025: Our paper on Loom, a new high-performance storage and querying system for observability, appeared at SOSP 2025!
July 2025: Our paper on finding privacy bugs with Paralegal appeared at OSDI 2025.
May 2025: Artem and Corinn receive senior prizes from Brown CS.
April 2025: Quicksand published at NSDI 2025.
April 2025: Dual ETOS teaching honors: Kinan receives Brown's Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Malte receives the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences.
January 2025: Corinn and Artem receive recognitions for undergraduate research from CRA!
November 2024: Our paper on end-to-end privacy compliance with Sesame appeared at SOSP 2024!