# Theses
**Source**: https://cores.inf.ethz.ch/theses/
**Parent**: https://inf.ethz.ch/studies/semester-and-master-theses.html
On this page, you will find a non-exhaustive list of currently open, ongoing and past projects for ETH students. **To apply for a project, please email [Prof. Michal Friedman](mailto:michal.friedman@inf.ethz.ch) with your CV and transcript of records.** We appreciate your patience as response times may vary. We receive many requests and unfortunately cannot accommodate every student. For inspiration on project topics, we encourage you to explore our , recent , and .
## Available Theses
There are always available theses. Feel free to reach out to discuss!
## Running Theses
**Safe Memory Reclamation and Extended Baselines for Persistent Layer on Enzian**
[Richard Sundkvist](http://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-sundkvist-9b47a719a) | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: [Hang Hu,](https://hanghu-sys.github.io/)
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**A Software Coherence Protocol for Non-coherent Memory Pools**
[Samira Buschor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbuschor/) | Master Thesis | Advisors: [Moritz Lumme,](https://moritz.lum.me/) Jasmin Schult,
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**Improving Student Learning Outcomes Through Programming Exercises on Selected Topics in Distributed Systems**
[Thomas Frehner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-frehner-360305297/) | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: [Moritz Lumme,](https://moritz.lum.me/) [Hang Hu,](https://hanghu-sys.github.io/)
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**CRDTs over Non-coherent Memory**
[Nicola Sorg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-sorg-9a7ab1267) | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: [Moritz Lumme,](https://moritz.lum.me/)
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**Garbage Collection Offloading Benchmarking Suite**
[Plamen Stefanov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/plamen-stefanov-8b558421b/) | Master Thesis | Advisor:
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**Green Orchestrator**
[Marcell Schneider](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcell-schneider-a8372623a/) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Lazar Cvetkovic,
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**From HLS to RTL: A System Verilog Implementation of a Hardware MCAS Accelerator**
[Filippo Selvatici](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fsselvatici) | Master Thesis | Advisors: [Yevhen Khavrona,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleh-yevhen-khavrona)
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**Proactive Page Placement**
[Niklas Römer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-roemer) | Master Thesis | Advisors: [Moritz Lumme,](https://moritz.lum.me/)
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## Completed Theses
**Contiguity-Aware Physical Memory Compaction in FreeBSD**
Karthikeya Reddy Konda | Semester Project | Advisors: [Moritz Lumme,](https://moritz.lum.me/)
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**Scale-up Vs. Scale-out Energy Consumption**
Carlos Reichenbach de Sousa | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: Romain Jacob, Andreas Schmidt,
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**Garbage Collection Offloading Benchmarking Suite**
[Plamen Stefanov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/plamen-stefanov-8b558421b/) | Semester Project | Advisor:
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**Disaggregated VectorDB**
[Diana Khimey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkhimey/) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Michael Giardino,
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**CXL Simulator**
[Lucas Bürgi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-bürgi) | Master Thesis | Advisor:
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**Design and Evaluation of Disaggregation-Aware Locking for Key-Value Stores**
[Michael Kürsteiner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-k%C3%BCrsteiner-9b0b231b2) | Master Thesis | Advisors: [Yevhen Khavrona,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleh-yevhen-khavrona)
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**Multi-Word Compare-And-Swap (MWCAS) on FPGAs**
[Rasmus Lüscher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmus-l%C3%BCscher) | Master Thesis | Advisors: [Yevhen Khavrona,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleh-yevhen-khavrona) Jonas Dann,
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**Sustainable Software Development: Integrating Energy and Carbon Impact into Software Design Decisions**
[Tobias Rahn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasrahn) | Master Thesis | Advisor:
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**PLayer: A Persistence Layer for Lock-Free Data Structures on Enzian**
[Hang Hu](https://hanghu-sys.github.io/) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Anastasiia Ruzhanskaia,
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**CXL0 Verification**
[Lucas Bürgi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-bürgi) | Semester Project | Advisor:
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**Offloading Garbage Collection on GPUs**
[Richard Braun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-braun-6695071a3) | Semester Project | Advisor:
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**Concurrent Garbage Collection based on GCGC**
Niels Niederwieser | Bachelor Thesis | Advisor:
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**PLayer: A Persistence Layer for Lock-Free Data Structures on Enzian (SoftECI)**
[Lucas Bürgi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-bürgi) | Semester Project | Advisors: Gustavo Alonso
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**Multi-Word Compare-And-Swap (MWCAS) on FPGAs for Lock-Free Transactions**
[Floris Westermann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/floris-westermann) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Zhenhao He, Gustavo Alonso
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**Take control of your cache: An infrastructure for user-controlled write-backs in modern superscalar out-of-order processors**
[Shashank Anand](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sh-anand/) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Michael Giardino, Gustavo Alonso
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**Systems' Impact on Energy**
[Mélina Sladic](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melina-sladic) | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: Gustavo Alonso
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**GCGC: GPU-CPU Garbage Collection**
[Matthias Bungeroth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-bungeroth) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Gustavo Alonso
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**Message Tracking for Persistence on Enzian**
[Richard Braun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-braun-6695071a3) | Bachelor Thesis | Advisors: Abishek Ramdas, Gustavo Alonso
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**Direct memory access (DMA) for Non-Volatile Memory**
[Xindi Zuo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xindi-zuo-9251b11b1) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Foteini Strati, Gustavo Alonso
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**Data Structure Representations on GPUs**
[Matthias Bungeroth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-bungeroth) | Semester Project | Advisors: Gustavo Alonso
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**Persistence Infrastructure on RISC-V**
[En-Yu Jenp](https://www.linkedin.com/in/enyu) | Master Thesis | Advisors: Michael Giardino, Gustavo Alonso
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