LSI Lab - Prof Leandro Soares Indrusiak

Leandro Soares Indrusiak is a Professor of Distributed Systems at the School of Computer Science of the University of Leeds. His current research topics include real-time systems and networks, distributed embedded systems, on-chip multiprocessing, energy-efficient computing, cyber-physical systems, cloud and high-performance computing, and several types of resource allocation problems (in computing, manufacturing and transportation). He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in the main international conferences and journals covering those topics (nine of them received best paper awards). He has graduated ten PhD students, currently supervises four PhD students, and is always keen to discuss about open problems with potential PhD candidates.

He is or has been a principal investigator in projects funded by EU, EPSRC, DFG, British Council and industry. He is a member of the EPSRC College, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, and a member of the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence. He currently holds a honorary professorship at the University of York, and has previously held visiting lectureships in five different countries.

He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in 1995, obtained a MSc in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1998, and was issued a binational doctoral degree by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Technische Universitaet Darmstadt in 2003. Prior to his appointment at Leeds, he had academic positions with research and teaching responsibilities at the University of York (2008-2023), Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (2001-2008) and Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (1998-2000).