About Me

My lastname is spelled Zuepke without umlauts and pronounced tsuup-keh, ツーップケ, or Цюпке.
The long form of my firstname is Alexander, but just call me Alex.

My fields of interests are operating systems and synchronization mechanisms, but I'm also interested in predictability aspects of CPU microarchitectures.
I did a PhD thesis on predictable and efficient low-level synchronization mechanisms and OS design patterns for partitioning microkernels.

Since January 2021, I'm a PostDoc at the group of Prof. Marco Caccamo at TUM.

Besides academia, I'm the VP of Engineering at Minerva Systems SRL.

Between 2012 and 2020, I was at the OS research group of Robert Kaiser at HSRM.

From 2003 to 2020, I was working on the PikeOS operating system at SYSGO GmbH.

Publications

• T. Betz, L. Wen, F. Pan, G. Kaljavesi, A. Zuepke, A. Bastoni, M. Caccamo, A. Knoll, J. Betz. A Containerized Microservice Architecture for a ROS 2 Autonomous Driving Software: An End-to-End Latency Evaluation. RTCSA 2024 (to appear) [arXiv]
• A. Zuepke, A. Bastoni, W. Chen, M. Caccamo, R. Mancuso. MemPol: Polling-based Microsecond-scale Per-core Memory Bandwidth Regulation. Real-Time Systems [preprint] [DOI]
• M. Foughali, P.-E. Hladik, A. Zuepke. Compositional Verification of Embedded Real-Time Systems. Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 142, September 2023 [preprint] [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, A. Bastoni, W. Chen, M. Caccamo, R. Mancuso. MemPol: Policing Core Memory Bandwidth from Outside of the Cores. RTAS 2023 [PDF] [DOI]
• M. Foughali, A. Zuepke. Formal Verification of Real-Time Autonomous Robots: an Interdisciplinary Approach. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Volume 9, 2022 [DOI]
• G. Schwäricke, R. Tabish, R. Pellizzoni, R. Mancuso, A. Bastoni, A. Zuepke, M. Caccamo. A Real-Time virtio-based Framework for Predictable Inter-VM Communication. RTSS 2021 [PDF] [DOI]
• A. Züpke. Efficient and Predictable Thread Synchronization Mechanisms for Mixed-Criticality Systems on Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Platforms. Dissertation for Dr. rer. nat. 2021 [PDF] [URN]
• A. Zuepke. Turning Futexes Inside-Out: Efficient and Deterministic User Space Synchronization Primitives for Real-Time Systems with IPCP. ECRTS 2020 [PDF] [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, R. Kaiser. Deterministic Futexes: Addressing WCET and Bounded Interference Concerns. RTAS 2019 [PDF] [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, R. Kaiser. Deterministic Futexes Revisited. OSPERT Workshop 2018 [PDF]
• A. Kohn, K. Schmidt, J. Decker, M. Sebastian, A. Züpke, A. Herkersdorf. Timing Analysis for Hypervisor-based I/O Virtualization in Safety-Related Automotive Systems. SAE WCX 2017 [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, K. Beckmann, A. Zoor, R. Kroeger. For Safety and Security Reasons: The Cost of Component-Isolation in IoT. JLST 2016 [DOI]
• A. Züpke, K. Beckmann, A. Zoor, R. Kröger. Kosten der Abschirmung von Code und Daten. Echtzeit 2016 [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, M. Bommert, D. Lohmann. AUTOBEST: A United AUTOSAR-OS and ARINC 653 Kernel. RTAS 2015 [PDF] [DOI]
• A. Zuepke, M. Bommert, R. Kaiser. Fast User Space Priority Switching. OSPERT Workshop 2014 [PDF]
• A. Zuepke. Thread Migration for Mixed-Criticality Systems. RTAS Work-in-Progress Session 2014 [PDF]
• A. Züpke. Deterministic Fast User Space Synchronization. OSPERT Workshop 2013 [PDF]
• R. Kaiser, S. Wagner, A. Zuepke. Safe and Cooperative Coexistence of a SoftPLC and Linux. Real-Time Linux Workshop 2006 [PDF] [ext]
• A. Züpke. Linux-Portierung auf den P4 Mikrokernel. Diploma Thesis for Dipl.-Ing. (FH) 2003 [PDF]

Professional Activities

Reviewer: Journal of Systems Architecture, Real-Time Systems, Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

Last updated: 2024-07-15.