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Papers, awards and group updates
2026
- Demo
Demonstrating Samsara: A Super-Optimizer for Multimodal Stream Processing at VLDB 2026
A live demo of Samsara, the multimodal stream processing prototype introduced in our EDBT 2026 vision paper.
- Workshop
Co-organized the aiDM workshop at SIGMOD 2026
Program chair for the Ninth International Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management, co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 in Bengaluru, India.
- Paper
- Appointment
Joined Ruhr-Universität Bochum as Junior Professor of Databases and Information Systems
I am building a research group on next-generation data systems that combine classical data system principles with modern AI techniques. Openings for PhD students and student assistants will be announced here.
- Paper
- Paper
2025
- Papers
Two papers on learned cost models in PVLDB Volume 18
Opening the Black-Box: Explaining Learned Cost Models for Databases brings explainability techniques to learned cost models, and Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization: From Batch to Streaming Systems carries them over to streaming workloads.
- Paper
- Paper
- Award
Named an Athene Young Investigator at TU Darmstadt
The programme supports early-career researchers in leading their own junior research group.
2024
- Paper
PDSP-Bench presented at TPCTC 2024
A benchmarking system for parallel and distributed stream processing, built to make performance results across systems and placements comparable.
- Papers