The Brown Systems research group investigates questions in computer systems—particularly distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and security. We build practical systems that combine performance, correctness, automation, and other properties.
Keep in touch
- To stay informed, join our mailing list here.
- Check out our tools on GitHub.
- Follow us on X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn
- Discover research talks by the group on YouTube.
Related Groups
Courses
- 0300: Fundamentals of Computer Systems
- 1260: Compilers and Program Analysis
- 1270: Database Management Systems
- 1380/1385/2380: Distributed Systems
- 1390: Systems for Machine Learning
- 1600: Real-Time and Embedded Software
- 1650: Software Security and Exploitation
- 1675: Designing High-Performance Network Systems
- 1710: Logic for Systems
- 1952-Y: Computer Architecture
- 2390: Privacy-Preserving Systems
- 2680: Computer Networks and the Internet
- 2690: Cloud and Datacenter Operating Systems
- 2951U: Topics in Software Security
- 2952R/1952R: Systems Transforming Systems
- 2953-A: Engineering Complex Systems with Generative AI
For details on course offerings each semester, see the department website.
Other Activities
- Check out Brown Systems Week.
People
The humans of Systems@Brown.Faculty
PostDocs
PhD Students
Alumni
- Di Jin (PostDoc 2025) → Huawei Research
- Kinan Dak Albab (PhD 2025) → Boston University
- Samuel Thomas (PhD 2025) → Pomona College
- Usama Naseer
- Saim Salman
- Leonhard Spiegelberg (PhD 2023) → Snowflake
- Michael Markovitch
- Lucas Castanheira
- Jiwon Choe
- Linnan Wang
- Changhao Wu
- Yongjeong Kim (MSc 2022) → Nvidia P4 team
- Akshat Mahajan (MSc 2021) → Cloudflare
- Eleonora Kiziv (BSc 2020) → Google
- Ben Givertz (BSc 2022) → Twitch
- Da Yu (PhD 2019) → Microsoft
- Jeff Rasley (PhD 2019) → Microsoft
- Jonathan Mace (PhD 2018) → MPI-SWS
- Marcelo Martins (PhD 2016) → Apple
- Ryan Roelke (MSc 2016) → HP Vertica
- Timothy Hoff (BSc 2016)
- George Hongkai Sun (MSc 2015)
- Andrew Ferguson (PhD 2014) → Google
- Alexander Yu
- Ghulam Murtaza