Authors are ranked by total number of SOSP and OSDI papers (the top conferences for systems research). Authors with same number of papers have the same rank.
For display purposes, within each rank, authors are sorted by last name. Top 100 (approximately) authors are shown.
Disclaimers: A real Hall of Fame should be determined by impact, not paper count. Data pulled from DBLP using a variation of dblp-python. Typos and name changes can cause miscounts. Please direct all queries about data to DBLP.
Author information obtained with permission from Prof. Emery Berger's CSRankings. Please direct queries about affiliation to CSRankings.
Inspired by ISCA Hall of Fame and MICRO Hall of Fame.
🔥 indicates five papers in the last five years
Updated: 10/05/2022.
Reflects data up-to SOSP 21.
| Author # | Rank | Name | Num. of Papers | Num. of Papers Since 2017 | Last-Known Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | M. Frans Kaashoek 🔥🔥 | 38 | 10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2 | 2 | Nickolai Zeldovich 🔥🔥 | 31 | 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3 | 3 | Ion Stoica 🔥 | 21 | 9 | University of California - Berkeley |
| 4 | 4 | Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau 🔥 | 20 | 6 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| 5 | 4 | Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau 🔥 | 20 | 6 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| 6 | 6 | Jason Flinn 🔥 | 18 | 6 | University of Michigan |
| 7 | 7 | Gregory R. Ganger 🔥 | 17 | 9 | CMU |
| 8 | 8 | Henry M. Levy | 16 | 1 | University of Washington |
| 9 | 8 | David Mazières | 16 | 3 | Stanford |
| 10 | 8 | Lidong Zhou 🔥 | 16 | 9 | MSR Asia |
| 11 | 11 | Thomas E. Anderson | 15 | 3 | University of Washington |
| 12 | 11 | Robert Tappan Morris | 15 | 3 | MIT |
| 13 | 13 | Haibo Chen 0001 🔥🔥 | 14 | 11 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 14 | 13 | Yuanyuan Zhou 0001 | 14 | 2 | University of California - San Diego |
| 15 | 13 | Brian N. Bershad | 14 | 0 | |
| 16 | 13 | Emmett Witchel 🔥 | 14 | 6 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 17 | 17 | Xi Wang 0005 🔥 | 13 | 5 | University of Washington Seattle |
| 18 | 17 | Lorenzo Alvisi | 13 | 3 | Cornell University |
| 19 | 17 | Ding Yuan 🔥 | 13 | 8 | University of Toronto |
| 20 | 20 | Taesoo Kim 🔥 | 12 | 6 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 21 | 20 | Barbara Liskov | 12 | 0 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 22 | 20 | Simon Peter 🔥 | 12 | 9 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 23 | 20 | Junfeng Yang | 12 | 2 | Columbia University |
| 24 | 24 | Shan Lu 0001 🔥 | 11 | 5 | University of Chicago |
| 25 | 24 | Miguel Castro 0001 | 11 | 0 | Microsoft Research |
| 26 | 24 | Peter M. Chen | 11 | 2 | University of Michigan |
| 27 | 24 | Michael Dahlin | 11 | 0 | |
| 28 | 24 | Peter Druschel | 11 | 1 | Max Planck Institute |
| 29 | 24 | Dawson R. Engler | 11 | 0 | Stanford University |
| 30 | 24 | Eddie Kohler | 11 | 1 | Harvard University |
| 31 | 24 | Arvind Krishnamurthy | 11 | 4 | University of Washington |
| 32 | 24 | Wyatt Lloyd 🔥 | 11 | 6 | Princeton University |
| 33 | 24 | Larry L. Peterson | 11 | 0 | University of Arizona |
| 34 | 24 | Scott Shenker | 11 | 4 | University of California - Berkeley |
| 35 | 24 | Michael Stumm 🔥 | 11 | 6 | University of Toronto |
| 36 | 24 | Amin Vahdat | 11 | 3 | |
| 37 | 24 | Kaushik Veeraraghavan 🔥 | 11 | 8 | |
| 38 | 38 | Jon Howell | 10 | 2 | VMware Research |
| 39 | 38 | Jason Nieh | 10 | 3 | Columbia University |
| 40 | 38 | Matei Zaharia 🔥 | 10 | 6 | Stanford University |
| 41 | 41 | David R. Cheriton | 9 | 0 | Stanford University |
| 42 | 41 | Steven D. Gribble | 9 | 0 | |
| 43 | 41 | Haryadi S. Gunawi | 9 | 3 | University of Chicago |
| 44 | 41 | Andreas Haeberlen | 9 | 4 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 45 | 41 | Irene Zhang 🔥 | 9 | 5 | Microsoft Research |
| 46 | 46 | David G. Andersen | 8 | 1 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 47 | 46 | Allen Clement | 8 | 0 | DFINITY |
| 48 | 46 | David K. Gifford | 8 | 0 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 49 | 46 | Manos Kapritsos | 8 | 2 | University of Michigan |
| 50 | 46 | Sanidhya Kashyap 🔥 | 8 | 7 | EPFL |
| 51 | 46 | Gerald J. Popek | 8 | 0 | UCLA (deceased) |
| 52 | 46 | Sylvia Ratnasamy | 8 | 4 | UC Berkeley |
| 53 | 46 | Timothy Roscoe | 8 | 3 | ETH Zurich |
| 54 | 46 | Mendel Rosenblum | 8 | 0 | Stanford University |
| 55 | 55 | Paul Barham 0001 | 7 | 1 | |
| 56 | 55 | Rong Chen 0001 🔥 | 7 | 5 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 57 | 55 | Kai Li 0001 | 7 | 0 | Princeton University |
| 58 | 55 | Aditya Akella 🔥 | 7 | 6 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 59 | 55 | Hari Balakrishnan | 7 | 0 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 60 | 55 | Adam Belay 🔥 | 7 | 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 61 | 55 | Michael Burrows | 7 | 0 | |
| 62 | 55 | George Candea | 7 | 2 | EPFL |
| 63 | 55 | Jeffrey S. Chase | 7 | 0 | Duke University |
| 64 | 55 | Vijay Chidambaram 🔥 | 7 | 5 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 65 | 55 | Bryan Ford | 7 | 1 | EPFL |
| 66 | 55 | Sanjay Ghemawat | 7 | 1 | |
| 67 | 55 | Michael Kaminsky | 7 | 1 | BrdgAI and CMU |
| 68 | 55 | Baris Kasikci 🔥 | 7 | 5 | University of Michigan |
| 69 | 55 | Christos Kozyrakis | 7 | 4 | Stanford University |
| 70 | 55 | Edmund B. Nightingale | 7 | 0 | Microsoft Research |
| 71 | 55 | John K. Ousterhout | 7 | 1 | Stanford University |
| 72 | 55 | Dan R. K. Ports | 7 | 4 | Microsoft Research |
| 73 | 55 | Antony I. T. Rowstron | 7 | 0 | Microsoft Research |
| 74 | 55 | Mahadev Satyanarayanan | 7 | 0 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 75 | 55 | Srinath T. V. Setty | 7 | 4 | Microsoft Research |
| 76 | 55 | Marvin Theimer | 7 | 0 | Amazon Web Services |
| 77 | 55 | Michael Walfish | 7 | 2 | New York University |
| 78 | 55 | Guoqing Harry Xu 🔥 | 7 | 6 | UCLA |
| 79 | 55 | Willy Zwaenepoel | 7 | 2 | EPFL |
| 80 | 80 | Jinyang Li 0001 | 6 | 2 | NYU |
| 81 | 80 | Peng Huang 0005 | 6 | 4 | John Hopkins |
| 82 | 80 | Martín Abadi | 6 | 1 | |
| 83 | 80 | Marcos K. Aguilera | 6 | 2 | VMware Research |
| 84 | 80 | Sebastian Angel 🔥 | 6 | 5 | UPenn |
| 85 | 80 | Ricardo Bianchini | 6 | 4 | Microsoft Research |
| 86 | 80 | Eric A. Brewer | 6 | 0 | University of California - Berkeley |
| 87 | 80 | Tej Chajed 🔥 | 6 | 5 | MIT |
| 88 | 80 | Byung-Gon Chun | 6 | 2 | Seoul National University |
| 89 | 80 | Heming Cui | 6 | 1 | University of Hong Kong |
| 90 | 80 | Chris Hawblitzel | 6 | 2 | Microsoft Research |
| 91 | 80 | Dejan Kostic | 6 | 2 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 92 | 80 | Jay Lepreau | 6 | 0 | Utah (deceased) |
| 93 | 80 | Philip Alexander Levis | 6 | 1 | Stanford |
| 94 | 80 | Jacob R. Lorch | 6 | 2 | Microsoft Research |
| 95 | 80 | Yu Luo | 6 | 4 | |
| 96 | 80 | Changwoo Min 🔥 | 6 | 5 | Virginia Tech |
| 97 | 80 | Madanlal Musuvathi | 6 | 1 | Microsoft Research |
| 98 | 80 | Vijayan Prabhakaran | 6 | 0 | Databricks |
| 99 | 80 | Kirk Rodrigues 🔥 | 6 | 6 | University of Toronto |
| 100 | 80 | Christopher J. Rossbach | 6 | 2 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 101 | 80 | Stefan Savage | 6 | 0 | University of California - San Diego |
| 102 | 80 | Michael D. Schroeder | 6 | 0 | Microsoft Research |
| 103 | 80 | Yee Jiun Song 🔥 | 6 | 5 | Instabase |
| 104 | 80 | Chandramohan A. Thekkath | 6 | 0 | Microsoft Research |
| 105 | 80 | Shivaram Venkataraman 🔥 | 6 | 5 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 106 | 80 | Yuan Yu | 6 | 1 | Microsoft |