Vojtech Aschenbrenner

asch@cs.wisc.edu
Computer Sciences Building 2293

Now

Researching computer systems.
- Trio (SOSP ’23 Best Paper Award).
- DIS/LSVD (EUROSYS ’22).
- BUSE/BS3 (Best Software Thesis Award ’21).
Teaching about computer systems.
Trying to improve Czech academia by writing:
- Why and how to do PhD abroad for Czech students, and
- Why you should hire Czech students (and which ones) for foreign professors (coming soon).

Spent a wonderful year in RS3Lab at EPFL working on scalable storage stack for heterogeneous HW.
Advised by Prof. Sanidhya Kashyap and worked closely with Dr. Diyu Zhou.
Was a lecturer at Charles University (Dept. of Distributed and Dependable Systems).
Had a business on building customized servers and open-source software deployment.
I deployed dozens of customized large storage systems together with QEMU/KVM-based solutions.
Was a systems engineer (storage and networking). Also interned at Red Hat twice.
Converted to systems research from AI/ML.
Was lucky to work with professors
- Sanidhya Kashyap from EPFL,
- Peter Desnoyers from Northeastern University,
- Petr Tuma from Charles University and
- Ondrej Kuzelka and Filip Zelezny from Czech Technical University in Prague.
Obtained degrees with miscellaneous honors from

Operating Systems, Storage, Networking and Computer Architecture.
With a particular focus on high-performance I/O.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the previous life.

Enabling High-Performance and Secure Userspace NVM File Systems with the Trio Architecture
Diyu Zhou, Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Tao Lyu, Jian Zhang, Sudarsun Kannan, Sanidhya Kashyap
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’23)
pdf · code · Best Paper Award
Beating the I/O bottleneck: A case for log-structured virtual disks
Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi*, Vojtech Aschenbrenner*, Mania Abdi, Emine Ugur Kaynar, Amin Mossayebzadeh, Orran Krieger, Peter Desnoyers (* Joint first authors)
ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EUROSYS ’22)
pdf · code
LSDN — Manage complex (virtual) networks in cloud environment with Linux kernel facilities
Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Roman Kapl, Jan Matejek, Adam Vyskovsky
Technical Conference on Linux Networking (NETDEV ’18)
pdf · code · slides · talk
Lifted relational neural networks: Efficient learning of latent relational structures
Gustav Sourek, Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Filip Zelezny, Steven Schockaert, Ondrej Kuzelka
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR ’18)
pdf · code

Lifted relational neural networks
Gustav Sourek, Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Filip Zelezny, Ondrej Kuzelka
NIPS Workshop on Cognitive Computation: Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches (COCO@NIPS ’15)
pdf · code
Horn-clause neural networks
Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Ondrej Kuzelka
IEEE ICSC Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning (SML ’14)
pdf · code

BUSE: Block Device in Userspace (Includes BS3)
Master Thesis, Charles University
Best software thesis award
Real world impact in academia and industry
pdf · code (buse) · code (bs3)
Deep Relational Learning with Predicate Invention
Master Thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague
Published in JAIR
pdf · code
Automated Tool-Chain Testing System
Bachelor Thesis, Brno University of Technology
Dean’s price for excellent thesis

Course	Code	Role	Terms
Introduction to Operating Systems	CS 537	TA	Falls ’23, ’24
Machine Organization and Programming	CS 354	EPIC TA	Springs ’24, ’25

Course	Code	Role	Terms
Parallelism and Concurrency	CS-206	TA	Spring ’23
Master Semester Project		Mentor	Spring ’23
Introduction to Operating Systems	CS-323	Head TA	Fall ’22

Course	Code	Role	Terms
Linux Administration	NSWI106	Main Instructor	Falls ’18, ’19, ’20, ’21
Introduction to Linux	NSWI177	Labs Instructor	Springs ’19, ’20
Programming in Python	NPRG065	Labs Instructor	Spring ’19

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