Systems Research: SOSP/OSDI Hall of Fame

Authors are ranked by total number of SOSP and OSDI papers (the top conferences for systems research). Several authors can share the same rank and the next rank is incremented by one.

For display purposes, authors sharing the same rank are sorted by last name. The list shows the top 100 authors and includes anyone tied with the last ranked author.

Disclaimers: A real Hall of Fame should be determined by impact, not paper count. Data pulled from DBLP using SPARQL. Please direct all queries about data to DBLP.

Author information updated manually. Please let me know if there is a mistake.

Inspired by ISCA Hall of Fame and MICRO Hall of Fame.

Updated: July 2025.

Reflects data up-to OSDI 25.

Rank Author Affiliation Publications Last 5 Years
1 M. Frans Kaashoek 🔥 MIT 49 9
2 Nickolai Zeldovich 🔥🔥 MIT 39 11
3 Haibo Chen 🚀 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 31 22
4 Ion Stoica 🔥 University of California, Berkeley 28 7
5 Gregory R. Ganger 🔥🔥 CMU 23 10
5 Lidong Zhou 🔥🔥 Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 23 10
6 Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau UW Madison 21 3
6 Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau UW Madison 21 3
7 Jason Flinn Meta 20 4
7 Henry M. Levy UW Seattle 20 2
8 David Mazières Stanford 19 3
9 Fan Yang 🔥🔥 Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 18 14
10 Barbara Liskov MIT 17 0
10 Jason Nieh 🔥 Columbia 17 8
10 Ding Yuan 🔥 University of Toronto 17 6
11 Thomas E. Anderson UW Seattle 16 0
11 Shan Lu 🔥 Microsoft Research, Redmond 16 6
12 Lorenzo Alvisi Cornell 15 3
12 Brian N. Bershad UW Seattle 15 0
12 Rong Chen 🔥 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 15 9
12 Robert Morris MIT 15 1
12 Amin Vahdat Google 15 1
12 Emmett Witchel 🔥 UT Austin 15 5
12 Junfeng Yang Columbia 15 0
12 Yuanyuan Zhou University of California, San Diego 15 1
13 Taesoo Kim Georgia Institute of Technology 14 4
13 Arvind Krishnamurthy UW Seattle 14 4
13 Simon Peter 🔥 UW Seattle 14 5
14 Miguel Castro Microsoft Research, Cambridge 13 0
14 Michael Dahlin Google 13 0
14 Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems 13 1
14 Bryan Ford EPFL 13 1
14 Jon Howell VMware Research 13 3
14 Xin Jin 🔥 Peking University 13 8
14 Sanidhya Kashyap 🔥 EPFL 13 8
14 Eddie Kohler Harvard 13 1
14 Roger M. Needham Microsoft Research, Cambridge 13 0
14 Larry L. Peterson Princeton 13 0
14 Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley 13 2
14 Xi Wang UW Seattle 13 0
15 Peter M. Chen University of Michigan 12 0
15 Dawson R. Engler Stanford 12 0
15 Peng Huang 🔥 University of Michigan 12 6
15 Manos Kapritsos University of Michigan 12 4
15 Wyatt Lloyd Princeton 12 2
15 Michael Stumm University of Toronto 12 1
15 Chunqiang Tang 🔥🔥 Meta 12 10
15 Kaushik Veeraraghavan Meta 12 3
15 Tianyin Xu 🔥 UIUC 12 7
15 Mao Yang 🔥🔥 Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 12 10
15 Matei Zaharia Stanford 12 3
16 Marcos K. Aguilera VMware 11 3
16 George Candea EPFL 11 4
16 Tej Chajed 🔥 UW Madison 11 6
16 David R. Cheriton Stanford 11 0
16 Vijay Chidambaram 🔥 UT Austin 11 5
16 Chris Hawblitzel Microsoft Research, Redmond 11 4
16 Christoforos E. Kozyrakis Stanford 11 0
16 Lingxiao Ma 🔥🔥 Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 11 10
16 Guoqing Harry Xu UCLA 11 3
17 Kang Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University 10 0
17 Steve D. Gribble UW Seattle 10 0
17 Ronghui Gu 🔥 Columbia 10 7
17 Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania 10 2
17 Baris Kasikci UW Seattle 10 4
17 Gerald J. Popek UCLA 10 0
17 Sylvia Ratnasamy University of California, Berkeley 10 2
17 Timothy Roscoe ETH Zurich 10 2
17 Irene Zhang Microsoft Research, Redmond 10 4
18 Rachit Agarwal 🔥 Cornell 9 6
18 David G. Andersen CMU 9 0
18 Ricardo Bianchini Microsoft Research, Redmond 9 2
18 David K. Gifford MIT 9 0
18 Haryadi S. Gunawi University of Chicago 9 1
18 Changwoo Min 🔥 Igalia 9 6
18 Madan Musuvathi Microsoft Research, Redmond 9 0
18 John K. Ousterhout Stanford 9 0
18 Dan R. K. Ports Microsoft Research, Redmond 9 2
18 Mahadev Satyanarayanan CMU 9 0
18 Yang Wang Ohio State University 9 4
18 Jilong Xue 🔥 Microsoft Research, Redmond 9 8
18 Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney, NSW 9 1
19 Ramnatthan Alagappan UIUC 8 4
19 Sebastian Angel University of Pennsylvania 8 4
19 Adam Belay MIT 8 1
19 Mosharaf Chowdhury 🔥 University of Michigan 8 5
19 Asaf Cidon 🔥 Columbia 8 8
19 Allen Clement Google 8 0
19 Sanjay Ghemawat Google 8 0
19 Joseph Gonzalez University of California at Berkeley 8 2
19 Zhihao Jia 🔥 CMU 8 6
19 Michael Kaminsky Intel Labs / CMU 8 0
19 Butler W. Lampson Microsoft Research, New England 8 0
19 Jay Lepreau University of Utah, Salt Lake City 8 0
19 Kai Li Princeton 8 1
19 Jacob R. Lorch Microsoft Research, Redmond 8 2
19 Yu Luo University of Toronto 8 3
19 Bryan Parno CMU 8 4
19 David A. Patterson University of California at Berkeley 8 0
19 Raluca A. Popa University of California, Berkeley 8 0
19 K. V. Rashmi CMU 8 3
19 Kirk Rodrigues University of Toronto 8 4
19 Mendel Rosenblum Stanford 8 0
19 Antony I. T. Rowstron MSR Cambridge 8 1
19 Michael D. Schroeder Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley 8 0
19 Srinath T. V. Setty Microsoft Research, Redmond 8 1
19 Emin Gün Sirer Cornell 8 0
19 Shivaram Venkataraman UW Madison 8 3
19 Michael Walfish NYU 8 1

Top Institutions

This table lists groups authors in the above table by institution and displays the top 10 institutions.

Institution Authors
Microsoft Research, Redmond 9
UW Seattle 8
Stanford 7
CMU 6
MIT 6
Google 4
University of California, Berkeley 4
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 4
UW Madison 4
University of Toronto 4
Columbia 4
University of Michigan 4