Michigan Systems Laboratory
Faculty at the University of Michigan Computer Science & Engineering Division whose work spans distributed systems, operating systems, security, cyber physical systems, networking, databases, and software engineering.
The System Lab is hiring!
The Systems Laboratory at the University of Michigan comprises a multidisciplinary group of researchers conducting research in systems. The lab focuses on the experimental design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software technologies, which enable the development of a wide range of emerging applications.
Prospective graduate students
Enabling technologies covered by the Systems Lab include biological databases, collaborative computing, compiler and language design, embedded and real-time computing, fault-tolerant computing, file systems, host and network security systems, mobile and distributed systems, network protocols and architectures, operating systems, peer-to-peer storage systems, power-aware adaptation, security policy management, virtual machines, web databases.
News
U-M team’s genome sequencing breakthrough featured in CACM Research Highlights
Their work introduces a new computational framework that significantly increases the efficiency of genomic data processing.

A new tool to manage slow faults
A new library dynamically adjusts to runtime operating slowdowns, reducing performance degradation under varying slow-fault conditions by 65%.

Five papers by CSE researchers at NSDI 2025
CSE researchers are presenting new research in the area of networked and distributed systems, including slow-fault tolerance, programmable traffic control, and cloud-based deep learning.
