Europe RIG
The Brno Red Hat engineering site collaborates with several universities not only in the Czech Republic and Slovakia but also in Europe. Our long-term partner universities are Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics and Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, but we also cooperate with several other universities, including Czech Technical University in Prague or Graz University of Technology, Austria.
Our engineers lead bachelor and master theses, we cooperate with university laboratories and researchers on projects and grants or sponsor Ph.D. students. We also deliver guest lectures, workshops or even whole courses at universities.
We also support high-school students and teachers, and also organize events for primary schools (for example, on teaching computer science to children).
Europe Research Interest Group Meeting [June 2022]
Developing static analysis tools in the era of cloud-native systems
by Tomas Cerny (Baylor University, USA)
System-centric perspectives are necessary for broader reasoning of cloud-native systems for evolvability assurance. While dynamic analysis and tracing offer a certain alternative, it is limited in detail and has significant delays. Static analysis traditionally provides early feedback. However, conventional low-level static analysis tools fail to address emerging needs and multi-codebase operability common in cloud-native systems. Static analysis approaches need to adapt to current best practices for cloud-native systems like distributed codebases, decentralization, and heterogeneous code.
This talk shares our long-term research goals and accomplishments in this field. We introduce our prototypic intermediate representation of the system, mechanisms to extract it from heterogenous code, and practical transformations into visual representation aiding system reasoning. Finally, we aim to engage with the microservice and cloud audience and seek to identify practical community problems that could drive our future scientific efforts.
Tomas Cerny, PhD. is an assistant professor at Baylor University. He teaches software engineering and distributed systems, and together with his research team, they look into static analysis in the field of cloud-native systems. Tomas is a long-time collaborator with Red Hat Research; just this summer, he leads a team of undergraduate researchers visiting Red Hat in Brno to perform a research internship.
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News
Newcastle research leader Mark Little named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Mark Little, Vice President of Middleware Engineering at Red Hat, has been named a Fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering.
Three researchers from the Faculty of Informatics involved in Red Hat Research were awarded with the 2021 “MUNI Innovation Award”
Masaryk University awarded the 2021 “MUNI Innovation Award” at its Business Research Forum on November 11, 2021. These new awards aim at individual students and employees whose outputs have been successfully implemented in practice, have helped improve products or services or have otherwise contributed to increasing the social relevance of Masaryk University’s research activities.
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