Reto Achermann

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor W-2
Technical University of Munich. Munich, Germany.
2026/03/01 - present

Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia. Vancouver (BC), Canada.
2024/07/01 - 2026/02/28

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of British Columbia. Vancouver (BC), Canada.
2020/12/01 - 2024/06/30

Research Assistant
ETH Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland.
2014/11/15 - 2020/11/15

Intern VMware Research Group
VMware, Inc.. Palo Alto (CA), USA.
2018/06/04 - 2018/09/14

Intern Systems Software
Hewlett-Packard Labs. Palo Alto (CA), USA.
2015/09/01 - 2015/12/12

Awards and Recognitions

UBC Science Co-op Supervisor Recognition Award
2025/12/04. The University of British Columbia.

Distinguished Artifact Award
2025/04/02. 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.

Distinguished Artifact Award
2024/11/04. 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

Distinguished Reviewer
2024/04/27. 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.

Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Award
2024/03/04. The University of British Columbia.

Positive Teaching Letter
2023/03/06. Faculty of Science, The University of British Columbia.

Intel Best Paper Award
2022/06/27. 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems.

Honorable Mention Distinguished Reviewer (Shadow PC)
2021/05/06. 16th European Conference on Computer Systems.

HiPEAC Paper Award
2016/04/03. 21st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.

Service

OSDI'26 Program Committee.

EuroSys'26 Program Committee.

ACM SRC'25 Program Committee.

KISV 2025 Program Committee.

USENIX ATC'25 Program Committee.

PLDI '25 Program Committee.

EuroSys'25 Session Chair.

EuroSys'25 Program Committee.

EuroSys'24 Program Committee.

ASPLOS'24 Program Committee.

ACM SRC'24 Program Committee.

ACM SRC'23 Presentation Juror.

USENIX ATC'23 Program Committee.

EuroSys'23 Program Committee.

EuroSys'23 Session Chair.

ASPLOS'22 Program Committee.

USENIX ATC'22 Program Committee.

USENIX ATC'22 Session Chair.

IEEE Internet Computing Reviewer.

USENIX ATC'21 Networking Co-Chair.

OSDI'21 Networking Co-Chair.

USENIX ATC'21 Program Committee.

EuroSys'21 Shadow Program Committee.