Researcher & Doctoral Candidate · Systems Group · ETH Zurich

Since Autumn 2013, I am a doctoral candidate in the Systems Group at ETH Zürich, working on emerging technologies that have a substantial impact on large-scale data management, distributed data processing, and high-performance computing systems. I am the author of several peer-reviewed publications presented at leading database conferences. My advisors are Prof. Dr. Gustavo Alonso, Prof. Dr. Donald Kossmann, and Prof. Dr. Torsten Hoefler. Prior and during my doctoral studies, I worked with several industry partners on innovative projects to accelerate distributed database systems, make existing processes more efficient, and improve overall business insights.

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ETH Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

October 2013 — now

Researcher in the Systems Group at ETH Zürich as part of my doctoral studies. My research focuses on distributed data processing on modern hardware and high-performance networks. In addition to research, my duties include teaching activities at the under-graduate and graduate levels.

Oracle Labs

Belmont, United States of America

March 2014 — September 2014

Internship as a researcher in the research divison of Oracle. Proposed new network scheduling techniques for distributed join and aggregation algorithms in the context of Project Rapid, a hardware-software co-design project targeting large-scale data management and analysis.

IBM Research

Rüschlikon, Switzerland

October 2012 — January 2013

Internship as a researcher in the European branch of IBM's worldwide research division. Investigated methods for autonomous sensor localization in the context of Project MoteRunner, an infrastructure platform for wireless sensor networks.