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Prof. Dr. Guido Salvaneschi
Head of the Programming Group
guido.salvaneschi@unisg.ch

School of Computer Science
Office 64-114
Torstrasse 25
9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

“Where should I go?” - Alice. “That depends on where you want to end up.” - The Cheshire Cat.
— Lewis Carroll

Welcome to the Programming Group! We are part of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and have a branch at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Together we enjoy working on Programming Languages and Software Engineering, including languages and architectures for Distributed Systems, Reactive Programming, DevOps Organizations, and Secure Software Systems.

Talk to us or join our group when you are interested in these topics or our work. Students at HSG or TU Darmstadt, please find our courses, theses, and jobs.

MSc Daniel Sokolowski

MSc David Spielmann

Dr. Pascal Weisenburger

MSc George Zakhour

News

Apr 2023	Our paper on Type-Checking CRDT Convergence has been accepted at PLDI ‘23 🎉
Feb 2023	Our vision Towards Reliable Infrastructure as Code 👀 is part of the Foundations of Infrastructure Specification and Testing (FIST) workshop at ICSA ‘23 in l’Aquila, Italy 🇮🇹
Dec 2022	Our study on The Uphill Journey of FaaS in the Open-source Community is accepted at JSS 📣
Nov 2022	MSc Daniel Sokolowski will present our paper Automating Serverless Deployments for DevOps Organizations at ESEC/FSE ‘22 in Singapore 🇸🇬 as well as his work on Infrastructure as Code for Dynamic Deployments at the co-located doctoral symposium 🗣️📊
Aug 2022	Our article Decentralizing Infrastructure as Code will be published in the IEEE Software magazine’s special issue “Infrastructure-as-Code Unleashed!” 🥳
Jun 2022	Prof. Dr. Guido Salvaneschi gave a keynote on “Are Programming Languages the Key to Distributed Systems?” at Virtual ECOOP ‘22 🗣
Jun 2022	The artifact 📦 of our XC paper received a Best Artifact Award at ECOOP ‘22 🎉
May 2022	The artifact 📦 of our Essential Safety paper received a Best Artifact Award at ICSE ‘22 👑
May 2022	Our work on XC has been accepted at ECOOP’22 🎉 preprint
May 2022	Our work on Prisma has been accepted at ECOOP’22 🎉 preprint

Projects

Type-checking for CRDTs, tracking algebraic properties in types.

Infrastructure as code (IaC) for decentralized deployment automation.

MetaverCE: A demonstration of Cloud Engineering in the Metaverse.

Safe mixing of consistency levels for replicated objects.

J_E

Language-level abstractions for secure programming with Trusted Execution Environments.

A programming language for distributed applications.

Advanced functional reactive programming for the JVM and the Web.

Support

Multitier Programming above the Clouds

SNF project. Multitier programming for heterogeneous platforms and devices, the cloud, mobile applications, Internet of Things (IoT) software, and Big Data processing stacks.

International Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fellowship support for Dr. Pascal Weisenburger, supporting his research on multitier programming languages.

DFG SFB. Cryptography-Based Security Solutions. Secure cryptography-based software for next generation computing environments.

LOEWE project. Emergency Responsive Digital Cities: Resilient software infrastructures to protect smart cities from disasters.

completed

National center for applied cybersecurity. Mission: Decentralized Cybersecurity. Application-oriented cybersecurity for business, society and government.

completed

Distributed Systems Development with MT and RP

DFG Individual Research Program. Distributed Systems Development with Multitier Reactive Programming. High-level language abstractions for developing distributed software systems.

completed