Best Student Paper Award

The shortlisting of candidate papers and selection of the Best Student Paper Award is made by the Program Committee of the conference.

Since 2025, the Program Committee also recognizes Honorable Mentions. They are listed in italics directly below the winner of the same year.

Year	Paper	Authors
2025	Full Trust Alchemist: Reforging Attestation for Cloud-based Confidential Workloads	Anna Galanou, Florian Lubitz (TU Dresden, Germany), Hajeong Jeon (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany), Rüdiger Kapitza (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
2025 Honorable Mention	Stabl: The Sensitivity of Blockchains to Failures	Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney and Redbelly Network, Australia), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Andrei Lebedev (University of Sydney, Australia), Gauthier Voron (EPFL, Switzerland)
2024	L3: Latency-aware Load Balancing in Multi-Cluster Service Mesh	Olivier Michaelis, Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin, Germany), Habib Mostafaei (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
2021	Sizeless: predicting the optimal size of serverless functions	Simon Eismann, Johannes Grohmann (U. Wurzburg, Germany), Cristina Abad (ESPOL, Ecuador), Nikolas Herbst and Samuel Kounev (U. Wurzburg, Germany)
2020	Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency	Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany)
2019	Lazarus: Automatic Management of Diversity in BFT Systems	Miguel Garcia, Alysson Bessani and Nuno Neves (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
2018	Adaptive Software Cache Management	Gil Einziger (Ben Gurion Uni, Israel), Ohad Eytan (Technion, Israel), Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel) and Benjamin Manes
2017	Swayam: distributed autoscaling to meet SLAs of machine learning inference services with resource efficiency	Arpan Gujarati (MPI-SWS, Germany), Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He (Microsoft Research, USA), Kathryn McKinley (Google, USA) and Björn B. Brandenburg (MPI-SWS, Germany)
2016	Bifrost: Supporting Continuous Deployment with Automated Enactment of Multi-Phase Live Testing Strategies	Gerald Schermann, Dominik Schöni, Philipp Leitner and Harald C. Gall (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
2015	Configuring Distributed Computations Using Response Surfaces	Adem Efe Gancer, David Bindel, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University, USA)
2014	Slider: incremental sliding window analytics	Pramod Bhatotia (MPI-SWS, Germany), Umut A. Acar (CMU, USA and INRIA, France), Flavio P. Junqueira (Microsoft Research, UK) and Rodrigo Rodrigues (NOVA Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
2013	Testing Idempotence for Infrastructure as Code	Waldemmar Hummer (TU Wien, Austria), Florian Rosenberg, Fábio Oliveira and Tamar Eilam (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)