Vaastav Anand
PhD Student, MPI-SWS
Saarbruecken, Germany
I like building, testing, breaking, and fixing software systems. My primary area of interest is Cloud Systems Reliability and Efficiency.
I will be joining ETH Zurich as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the EASL group under the supervision of Dr. Ana Klimovic.
I was a Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and Saarland University where I worked under the supervision of Dr. Antoine Kaufmann and Dr. Deepak Garg. Previously, I was advised by Dr. Jonathan Mace. Before starting my doctoral degree, I was a M.Sc. student in the Network, Systems, and Security Lab at The University of British Columbia where I worked with Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh and Dr. Margo Seltzer.
My hobbies include watching football, Formula 1, and learning new languages. I also like to cook in my free time and I do enjoy writing and reading poetry from time to time.
Here are some of my relevant academic documents:
News
| Sep 24, 2026 | I defended my dissertation entitled “Building Efficient Modular Cloud Systems”. |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Our work “Using Epistemic Observability in Agentic Systems for Combating Hallucinations” was accepted at PacMI’26. |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Our work “Demystifying the multiverse of MPC protocols” has been accepted for a 15-minute talk at SysteMPC’26. |
| Jul 23, 2026 | We will present two posters at SOSP 2026: “Finding Metastable Failure Resistant Designs with Bluebell” and “Generating Representative Microservice Macrobenchmarks with Palette” |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Our work “Peeking Under the Hood of Multi-Agent Systems” was accepted as a Demo at CAIS’26. |