Regular biography
Hans-Arno Jacobsen is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He directs the Middleware Systems Research Group (msrg.org) and focuses on research aimed at enabling scalable, reliable, and secure ultra-large-scale distributed applications. His work includes event processing, publish/subscribe, service-orientation, and green middleware. Jacobsen has engaged in research and development projects with various companies, covering areas such as business process management and service delivery models. He received his PhD from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1999, and his M.A.Sc. from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1994. Jacobsen has served on program committees for international conferences and held leadership roles in conferences such as the International Middleware Conference and the International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems.
Scholar-generated biography
Hans-Arno Jacobsen is a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science with research interests in data management, middleware, distributed systems, event processing, and blockchains. His work explores the design and implementation of scalable systems for big data analytics, including distributed architectures for deep learning and publish/subscribe systems. Jacobsen has contributed to the development of platforms like PNUTS and frameworks for efficient data processing in video CDNs and energy systems. His research emphasizes the integration of middleware solutions for real-time data handling and the challenges of building dependable distributed ledgers.