Thomas Knauth

Thomas Knauth received his diploma in computer science from Technische Universitaet Dresden in 2008. He took a one-year break to work and travel in Australia, and rejoined the group in 2009. In 2014 he received his PhD degree, also from TU Dresden, for which he was honored with the faculty-wide 2015 SAP best dissertation award. Currently, Thomas works at Intel (Portland, USA).

Contact information

• Email: first.last (at) tu-dresden.de
• Phone:
• Office:

Research interests

• Cloud security (Intel SGX)
• Cloud Computing
• Energy efficiency

Talks

• 2014-12-16, PhD thesis defense, slides
• 2014-06-20, USENIX ATC Best of the Rest Track, Link to paper
• 2014-06-11, SYSTOR, slides
• 2013-11-11, visit to AT&T Research, slides
• 2013-11-07, Large Installation and System Administration Conference, slides
• 2013-10-02, Green and Cloud Computing Conference, slides
• 2013-04-26, GI Fachgruppentreffen Betriebssysteme, slides
• 2013-04-14, Eurosys doctoral workshop, slides and poster
• 2013-03-19, status talk slides and notes

Open Topics

I am always looking for bright and motivated students to write their thesis with me. You should have an interest in all things systems related. A solid background in programming (C/C++/Java/Python) and Unix will be beneficial. Feel free to contact me, if you would like to get involved in current research topics.

I no longer maintain a list of thesis topics. Please contact me to discuss potential ideas. If our interests align and your qualification match our expectations, we will surely find something.

Previous students

• Martin Rataj (SGX + LLVM data flow sanitizer)
• Jan Bickel (System call level fault injector)
• Peng Chen (Elastic Load Balancer)
• Christian Jacobs (Wide-area services written in Akka/Scala)
• Bohdan Trach (System support for Intel SGX)
• Christoph Seifert (Tracing of page read/write sets in QEMU/KVM)
• Pradeep Kiruvale (Software Defined Networking)
• Humanshu Bhatia (USB 3.0 driver development)
• Stefan Schlott (Condor and EC2)
• Lukas Vierhaus (CDN on Stream Platform)
• Li Ru (Workload Generator for Pub/Sub systems)

Publications