About me

Hi. I am a 1st year PhD student in the Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab (EASL), which is part of the Systems Group at ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Ana Klimovic.

My main interests are in serverless cloud orchestration and data processing. I am currently working on extending the declarative nature of data processing in the cloud. I have contributed to Dandelion (Github), a declarative serverless engine, and Dirigent (Github), a cluster orchestrator specifically designed for serverless applications.

I have obtained my MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Publications

End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure

Pinghe Li*, Tom Kuchler*, Marko Kabić*, Tobias Stocker*, Gustavo Alonso, Ana Klimovic

To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2026.

Unlocking True Elasticity for the Cloud-Native Era with Dandelion

Tom Kuchler, Pinghe Li, Yazhuo Zhang, Lazar Cvetković, Boris Goranov, Tobias Stocker, Leon Thomm, Simone Kalbermatter, Tim Notter, Andrea Lattuada, Ana Klimovic

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2025.