Postdoctoral Researcher Hugo Lefeuvre Receives EuroSys Award for PhD Thesis

UBC Computer Science Postdoctoral Researcher Hugo Lefeuvre has been named the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Roger Needham PhD Award at EuroSys. His dissertation, Towards Safe, Flexible, and Easy Software Compartmentalisation, tackles pressing security challenges in modern software deployments through software compartmentalization—decomposing programs into isolated, de-privileged components to minimize the impact of security breaches. His PhD work explores ways to make compartmentalization safe, fast, and easy to encourage its adoption in real-world production systems.

Hugo earned his PhD from the University of Manchester and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in UBC's Department of Computer Science.  His postdoctoral research builds on his previous work to make computer systems safer and more dependable through isolation. He also investigates broader isolation challenges in cloud computing and embedded systems.

EuroSys is the European chapter of ACM SIGOPS—the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems. The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award is presented annually to a PhD graduate from a European university whose thesis makes an exceptional and innovative contribution to systems research. Selection criteria include originality, scientific rigour, significance, quality of presentation, and potential for practical impact.

Congratulations Hugo!

Read the official announcement here: 
https://www.eurosys.org/awards/roger-needham-phd-award

In the photo (left to right):
- Hugo Lefeuvre: 2025 recipient of the Roger Needham PhD Award at EuroSys 
- Anne-Marie Kermarrec: Chair of the committee of the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award and Professor at EPFL 
- Pascal Felber: Chair of EuroSys and Professor at the University of Neuchâtel