Research Group Leader at MPI-SWS

Laurent
Bindschaedler

I lead the Data Systems Group (DSG) at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

I build next-generation systems for massive-scale data management and AI at the intersection of operating systems, databases, and machine learning.

My current focus is on analytics (graphs, blockchain, multi-modal) and AI systems beyond single models. We aim to overcome the limitations of existing systems to enable robust, adaptive, and efficient processing for complex workloads.

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CVResearch Statement
Laurent Bindschaedler

Research Interests

Big Data

Machine Learning

Distributed Systems

Software Architecture

Cloud Computing

Security and Privacy

Latest Blog Posts

Two Papers at the ASE 2026 Workshops in Munich
NewsSep 2, 2026

Two Papers at the ASE 2026 Workshops in Munich

ForkOps at SWGeno 2026 and Whose Oracle Is It? at APR 2026, both workshops co-located with ASE in Munich. Generated software needs fleet operations, and generated patches need an authority problem solved.

Three Papers at the SOSP 2026 Workshops, and a Keynote at AgenticOS
NewsAug 31, 2026

Three Papers at the SOSP 2026 Workshops, and a Keynote at AgenticOS

Two papers at AgenticOS 2026 and one at PACMI 2026, both workshops co-located with SOSP in Prague. And I will be giving the keynote at AgenticOS. If you are attending either workshop, come say hi.

Two Papers Accepted at BCCA 2026
NewsJul 31, 2026

Two Papers Accepted at BCCA 2026

Two new papers with Quentin Botha and Christoph Siebenbrunner at BCCA 2026 in Barcelona. Agent Flight Recorder gives long-horizon agents a tamper-evident audit trail anyone can verify, and Bonded Recourse settles the harm an agent leaves behind through smart contracts.

The Conservation of Complexity: The Ends Still Need a Middle
OpinionJul 4, 2026

The Conservation of Complexity: The Ends Still Need a Middle

Everyone is predicting that AI will flatten the software stack into one English-speaking agent, until nothing of the old software remains. It will not go that far. Complexity is conserved, the end-to-end principle still collects its debt, and the stack does not flatten all the way down. It sorts itself by what you can afford to trust.

The Invisible Lottery: Algorithm Steering in LLM Code Generation at ICML 2026
NewsJun 12, 2026

The Invisible Lottery: Algorithm Steering in LLM Code Generation at ICML 2026

New paper with Akanksha Narula and Mofasshara Rafique at ICML 2026 in Seoul. Incidental prompt cues silently decide which algorithm an LLM ships, even when every output passes the same tests.

What Survives When Code Doesn't? Keynote at EuroMLSys 2026
NewsApr 20, 2026

What Survives When Code Doesn't? Keynote at EuroMLSys 2026

I am giving the keynote at EuroMLSys 2026 in Edinburgh. A short teaser on what happens to software when code becomes disposable.

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Latest Publications

Agent Flight Recorder: Tamper-Evident Audit Trails with On-Chain Anchoring for Long-Horizon Tool-Using Agents

2026

Laurent Bindschaedler, Quentin Botha, Christoph Siebenbrunner

BCCA 2026

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Bonded Recourse for Smart-Contract Settlement of Compensable Agent Side Effects

2026

Laurent Bindschaedler, Quentin Botha, Christoph Siebenbrunner

BCCA 2026

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Whose Oracle Is It? The Authority Problem in Deployed Agentic Program Repair

2026

Bardia Mohammadi, Laurent Bindschaedler

APR 2026

ForkOps: Operating Fleets of Generated Software Variants

2026

Laurent Bindschaedler

SWGeno 2026

Externalization Barriers: An OS Abstraction for Untrusted Agent Exploration

2026

Jinhao Hu, Bardia Mohammadi, Ashvin Goel, Laurent Bindschaedler

AgenticOS 2026

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Research Projects

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Teaching

Spring 2026

Operating Systems (OS2026)

University of Saarland

Saarbrücken, Germany

Lecturer
Spring 2024

Operating Systems (OS2024)

University of Saarland

Saarbrücken, Germany

Lecturer
Fall 2023

Systems for Large Language Models (SysLLM)

University of Saarland

Saarbrücken, Germany

Lecturer
Spring 2023

Distributed Systems (DS2023)

University of Saarland

Saarbrücken, Germany

Lecturer

Experience

Nov 2022 – present

Research Group Leader

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Sep 2020 – Nov 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow

MIT CSAIL

MIT CSAIL

Sep 2015 – Sep 2020

Doctoral Assistant

EPFL, LABOS

EPFL, LABOS

Mar 2014 – Aug 2015

Research Assistant

EPFL, LABOS

EPFL, LABOS

Jul 2013 – Feb 2014

IT Consultant – Acting Head of IT

Lobnek Wealth Management

Lobnek Wealth Management

Aug 2011 – Jun 2013

Co-founder & VP Engineering

LakeMind

LakeMind

Jan 2011 – Jul 2011

Intern

Nokia Research Center

Nokia Research Center

Jul 2006 – Dec 2018

IT Pioneer — Chief of Staff, 1st Army Region

Swiss Armed Forces

Swiss Armed Forces

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2015 – 2020
  • Thesis: An Architecture for Load Balance in Computer Cluster Applications
  • Advisor: Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel

M.S. in Computer Science

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009 – 2011
  • Thesis: Track Me If You Can
  • Advisor: Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux

B.S. in Computer Science

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2006 – 2009

Awards & Honors

Associate Fellow

University of Saarland

2025

Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship

Swiss National Science Foundation

2020

Best Presentation Award

ASPLOS 2020

2020

Teaching Assistant Award

EPFL IC Faculty

2017

Public Prize Winner

Exposure Science Movie Hackathon

2017