Eyal de Lara

delara@cs.toronto.edu

40 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4

I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I joined the department in 2002 after earning my PhD from Rice University. My research lies at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud and mobile computing, and applied AI, with contributions in system virtualization, edge computing, indoor localization, and mobile security. My work has had impact in both academia and industry, including the commercialization of research on virtual machine elasticity.

Since 2022, I also serve as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science.

recent publications

Asymmetric Linearizable Local Reads

Myles Thiessen, Guy Khazma, Sam Toueg, and Eyal Lara

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2025

DOI Bib

@article{DBLP:journals/pvldb/ThiessenKTL25,
  author = {Thiessen, Myles and Khazma, Guy and Toueg, Sam and de Lara, Eyal},
  title = {Asymmetric Linearizable Local Reads},
  journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
  volume = {18},
  number = {8},
  pages = {2427--2439},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2427-thiessen.pdf},
  doi = {10.14778/3742728.3742738},
  timestamp = {Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/pvldb/ThiessenKTL25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

Utilizing Speech as a Biosignal for Monitoring Respiratory Health and Beyond

Sejal Bhalla, Eyal Lara, and Alex Mariakakis

In Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/huc/BhallaLM25,
  author = {Bhalla, Sejal and de Lara, Eyal and Mariakakis, Alex},
  title = {Utilizing Speech as a Biosignal for Monitoring Respiratory Health
                    and Beyond},
  booktitle = {Companion of the 2025 {ACM} International Joint Conference on Pervasive
                    and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland,
                    October 12-16, 2025},
  pages = {492--497},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3714394.3750551},
  doi = {10.1145/3714394.3750551},
  timestamp = {Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/huc/BhallaLM25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

Phoneme-Aware Acoustic Analysis of Natural Speech for Lung Function Assessment

Sejal Bhalla, Tien Han, Andrea Gershon, Robert Wu, Eyal Lara, and Alex Mariakakis

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icassp/BhallaHGWLM25,
  author = {Bhalla, Sejal and Han, Tien and Gershon, Andrea and Wu, Robert and de Lara, Eyal and Mariakakis, Alex},
  title = {Phoneme-Aware Acoustic Analysis of Natural Speech for Lung Function
                    Assessment},
  booktitle = {2025 {IEEE} International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
                    Processing, {ICASSP} 2025, Hyderabad, India, April 6-11, 2025},
  pages = {1--5},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888421},
  doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888421},
  timestamp = {Fri, 04 Jul 2025 01:00:00 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icassp/BhallaHGWLM25.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

Monitoring People With COVID-19 at Home With the COVIDFree@ Home Program: Feasibility Cohort Study

Andrea S Gershon, Alex Mariakakis, Eyal Lara, Joseph Munn, Maryann Calligan, Daniyal Liaqat, Salaar Liaqat, Junlin Chen, Teresa To, Philip W Lam, and others

JMIR Formative Research, 2025

Bib

@article{gershon2025monitoring,
  title = {Monitoring People With COVID-19 at Home With the COVIDFree@ Home Program: Feasibility Cohort Study},
  author = {Gershon, Andrea S and Mariakakis, Alex and de Lara, Eyal and Munn, Joseph and Calligan, Maryann and Liaqat, Daniyal and Liaqat, Salaar and Chen, Junlin and To, Teresa and Lam, Philip W and others},
  journal = {JMIR Formative Research},
  volume = {9},
  number = {1},
  pages = {e69140},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {JMIR Publications Inc., Toronto, Canada},
}

Association of daily lung condition in COPD patients with wearable speech and physiological data

Sejal Bhalla, Deshang Kong, Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Eyal Lara, and Alex Mariakakis

Scientific Reports, 2025

Bib

@article{bhalla2025association,
  title = {Association of daily lung condition in COPD patients with wearable speech and physiological data},
  author = {Bhalla, Sejal and Kong, Deshang and Liaqat, Salaar and Liaqat, Daniyal and Wu, Robert and Gershon, Andrea and de Lara, Eyal and Mariakakis, Alex},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  volume = {15},
  number = {1},
  pages = {33645},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
}

Determining what patients admitted with a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation will use for remote clinical monitoring: a patient engagement survey

Robert Wu, Jansen Zhou, Alex Mariakakis, Eyal Lara, Jeyani Jeyaparan, and Andrea Gershon

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2025

Bib

@article{wu2025determining,
  title = {Determining what patients admitted with a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation will use for remote clinical monitoring: a patient engagement survey},
  author = {Wu, Robert and Zhou, Jansen and Mariakakis, Alex and de Lara, Eyal and Jeyaparan, Jeyani and Gershon, Andrea},
  journal = {BMJ Open Respiratory Research},
  volume = {12},
  number = {1},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {British Thoracic Society},
}