Authors are ranked by total number of SOSP and OSDI papers (the top conferences for systems research). Several authors can share the same rank; the next rank skips ahead by the number of authors in the tie.
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: Nov 2025.
Reflects data up-to SOSP 25.
🔥 - five papers in last five years.
🔥🔥 - ten papers in last five years.
🚀 - 15+ papers in last five years.
| 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 | 35 | 26 |
| 4 | Ion Stoica 🔥 | University of California, Berkeley | 30 | 9 |
| 5 | Gregory R. Ganger 🔥🔥 | CMU | 25 | 12 |
| 6 | Lidong Zhou 🔥🔥 | Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing | 23 | 10 |
| 7 | Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau | UW Madison | 21 | 3 |
| 7 | Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau | UW Madison | 21 | 3 |
| 7 | Henry M. Levy | UW Seattle | 21 | 3 |
| 10 | Jason Flinn | Meta | 20 | 4 |
| 11 | David Mazières | Stanford | 19 | 3 |
| 11 | Fan Yang 🚀 | Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing | 19 | 15 |
| 13 | Sanidhya Kashyap 🔥🔥 | EPFL | 17 | 12 |
| 13 | Barbara Liskov | MIT | 17 | 0 |
| 13 | Jason Nieh 🔥 | Columbia | 17 | 8 |
| 13 | Ding Yuan 🔥 | University of Toronto | 17 | 7 |
| 17 | Lorenzo Alvisi | Cornell | 16 | 4 |
| 17 | Thomas E. Anderson | UW Seattle | 16 | 0 |
| 17 | Rong Chen 🔥🔥 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 16 | 10 |
| 17 | Peng Huang 🔥🔥 | University of Michigan | 16 | 10 |
| 17 | Shan Lu 🔥 | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 16 | 6 |
| 22 | Brian N. Bershad | UW Seattle | 15 | 0 |
| 22 | Arvind Krishnamurthy 🔥 | UW Seattle | 15 | 5 |
| 22 | Robert Morris | MIT | 15 | 1 |
| 22 | Amin Vahdat | 15 | 1 | |
| 22 | Emmett Witchel 🔥 | UT Austin | 15 | 5 |
| 22 | Junfeng Yang | Columbia | 15 | 3 |
| 22 | Yuanyuan Zhou | University of California, San Diego | 15 | 1 |
| 29 | Bryan Ford | EPFL | 14 | 2 |
| 29 | Xin Jin 🔥 | Peking University | 14 | 9 |
| 29 | Taesoo Kim | Georgia Institute of Technology | 14 | 4 |
| 29 | Simon Peter 🔥 | UW Seattle | 14 | 6 |
| 33 | Miguel Castro | Microsoft Research, Cambridge | 13 | 0 |
| 33 | Peter M. Chen | University of Michigan | 13 | 1 |
| 33 | Michael Dahlin | 13 | 0 | |
| 33 | Peter Druschel | Max Planck Institute for Software Systems | 13 | 1 |
| 33 | Jon Howell | VMware Research | 13 | 3 |
| 33 | Eddie Kohler | Harvard | 13 | 1 |
| 33 | Wyatt Lloyd | Princeton | 13 | 3 |
| 33 | Roger M. Needham | Microsoft Research, Cambridge | 13 | 0 |
| 33 | Larry L. Peterson | Princeton | 13 | 0 |
| 33 | Scott Shenker | University of California, Berkeley | 13 | 2 |
| 33 | Xi Wang | UW Seattle | 13 | 0 |
| 44 | George Candea 🔥 | EPFL | 12 | 5 |
| 44 | Dawson R. Engler | Stanford | 12 | 0 |
| 44 | Manos Kapritsos | University of Michigan | 12 | 4 |
| 44 | Michael Stumm | University of Toronto | 12 | 1 |
| 44 | Chunqiang Tang 🔥🔥 | Meta | 12 | 10 |
| 44 | Kaushik Veeraraghavan | Meta | 12 | 3 |
| 44 | Tianyin Xu 🔥 | UIUC | 12 | 7 |
| 44 | Guoqing Harry Xu 🔥 | UCLA | 12 | 6 |
| 44 | Mao Yang 🔥🔥 | Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing | 12 | 10 |
| 44 | Matei Zaharia | Stanford | 12 | 3 |
| 54 | Marcos K. Aguilera | VMware | 11 | 4 |
| 54 | Tej Chajed 🔥 | UW Madison | 11 | 6 |
| 54 | Kang Chen 🔥 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 11 | 9 |
| 54 | David R. Cheriton | Stanford | 11 | 0 |
| 54 | Vijay Chidambaram 🔥 | UT Austin | 11 | 5 |
| 54 | Chris Hawblitzel | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 11 | 4 |
| 54 | Baris Kasikci 🔥 | UW Seattle | 11 | 5 |
| 54 | Christoforos E. Kozyrakis 🔥 | Stanford | 11 | 5 |
| 54 | Lingxiao Ma 🔥🔥 | Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing | 11 | 10 |
| 54 | Timothy Roscoe | ETH Zurich | 11 | 3 |
| 64 | Asaf Cidon 🔥🔥 | Columbia | 10 | 10 |
| 64 | Steve D. Gribble | UW Seattle | 10 | 0 |
| 64 | Ronghui Gu 🔥 | Columbia | 10 | 7 |
| 64 | Andreas Haeberlen | University of Pennsylvania | 10 | 2 |
| 64 | Changwoo Min 🔥 | Igalia | 10 | 7 |
| 64 | Gerald J. Popek | UCLA | 10 | 0 |
| 64 | Dan R. K. Ports | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 10 | 3 |
| 64 | Sylvia Ratnasamy | University of California, Berkeley | 10 | 2 |
| 64 | Irene Zhang | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 10 | 4 |
| 73 | Rachit Agarwal 🔥 | Cornell | 9 | 6 |
| 73 | David G. Andersen | CMU | 9 | 0 |
| 73 | Sebastian Angel 🔥 | University of Pennsylvania | 9 | 5 |
| 73 | Ricardo Bianchini | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 9 | 3 |
| 73 | David K. Gifford | MIT | 9 | 0 |
| 73 | Joseph Gonzalez 🔥 | University of California at Berkeley | 9 | 6 |
| 73 | Haryadi S. Gunawi | University of Chicago | 9 | 1 |
| 73 | Youngjin Kwon 🔥 | KAIST | 9 | 6 |
| 73 | Madan Musuvathi | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 9 | 2 |
| 73 | John K. Ousterhout | Stanford | 9 | 0 |
| 73 | Mahadev Satyanarayanan | CMU | 9 | 0 |
| 73 | Yang Wang 🔥 | Ohio State University | 9 | 7 |
| 73 | Jilong Xue 🔥 | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 9 | 8 |
| 73 | Willy Zwaenepoel | University of Sydney, NSW | 9 | 1 |
| 87 | Ramnatthan Alagappan | UIUC | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | Adam Belay | MIT | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Daniel S. Berger 🔥 | Microsoft Research,Redmond | 8 | 6 |
| 87 | Mosharaf Chowdhury 🔥 | University of Michigan | 8 | 5 |
| 87 | Allen Clement | 8 | 0 | |
| 87 | David E. Culler | 8 | 4 | |
| 87 | Sanjay Ghemawat | 8 | 0 | |
| 87 | Zhihao Jia 🔥 | CMU | 8 | 6 |
| 87 | Michael Kaminsky | Intel Labs / CMU | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Butler W. Lampson | Microsoft Research, New England | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Jay Lepreau | University of Utah, Salt Lake City | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Philip Alexander Levis | Stanford | 8 | 2 |
| 87 | Kai Li | Princeton | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Jacob R. Lorch | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 8 | 3 |
| 87 | Youyou Lu 🔥 | Tsinghua | 8 | 7 |
| 87 | Yu Luo | University of Toronto | 8 | 3 |
| 87 | Shuai Mu | Stony Brook University | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | Bryan Parno | CMU | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | David A. Patterson | University of California at Berkeley | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Raluca A. Popa 🔥 | University of California, Berkeley | 8 | 5 |
| 87 | K. V. Rashmi | CMU | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | Kirk Rodrigues | University of Toronto | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | Mendel Rosenblum | Stanford | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Antony I. T. Rowstron | MSR Cambridge | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Stefan Savage | University of California, San Diego | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Michael D. Schroeder | Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Malte Schwarzkopf 🔥 | Brown | 8 | 5 |
| 87 | Srinath T. V. Setty | Microsoft Research, Redmond | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Emin Gün Sirer | Cornell | 8 | 0 |
| 87 | Shivaram Venkataraman | UW Madison | 8 | 4 |
| 87 | Michael Walfish | NYU | 8 | 1 |
| 87 | Yongwei Wu 🔥 | Tsinghua | 8 | 7 |
| 87 | Yubin Xia 🔥 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 8 | 8 |
| 87 | Diyu Zhou 🔥 | Peking | 8 | 8 |
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 | 8 |
| MIT | 6 |
| CMU | 6 |
| 5 | |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 4 |
| Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing | 4 |
| UW Madison | 4 |
| University of Toronto | 4 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 4 |
| Columbia | 4 |
| University of Michigan | 4 |