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Eyal de Lara is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He joined the department in 2002 after earning his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University. He serves as Chair of the Department of Computer Science since 2022 and as Associate Director for Engagement at the Data Sciences Institute. He is also cross-appointed as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on the intersection of distributed systems, cloud and mobile computing, and applied AI, with contributions in areas including system virtualization, edge computing, indoor localization, and mobile security. His work has achieved impact in both academia and industry, including the commercialization of research on virtual machine elasticity.
De Lara has received several awards, including the Connaught Innovation Award in 2020, an IBM Faculty Award, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, the 2012 CACS/AIC Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, and the University of Toronto Inventors of the Year award in 2012 for work on VM Fork. He maintains an active publication record in venues such as Proc. VLDB Endow., ACM UbiComp, IEEE ICASSP, JMIR Formative Research, Scientific Reports, and BMJ Open Respiratory Research, with recent work addressing topics like asymmetric linearizable local reads, speech-based biosignals for health monitoring, and remote clinical monitoring for respiratory conditions.
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