Biography

I am a researcher working at the intersection of data systems and artificial intelligence. My research focuses on next-generation data systems that combine classical data system principles with modern AI techniques to learn and adapt, understand multimodal data, and process data efficiently in real time. My work spans AI-enhanced data systems, multimodal data processing, scalable and distributed data systems, and benchmarking and evaluation.

In April 2026, I joined Ruhr Universität Bochum as a Junior Professor of Data-Intensive Systems Chair, where I am establishing a research group around this vision. Before joining RUB, I was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt and Deputy Head of the SAIDE Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), working with Prof. Carsten Binnig. I continue to be affiliated with TU Darmstadt as an Athene Young Investigator.

I received my Ph.D. from TU Darmstadt. My dissertation focused on network-centric abstractions and optimizations for distributed complex event processing and received the 2023 KuVS Dissertation Award. My research has been published at leading data management venues including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and EDBT.