Interests

I have a wide range of interests in computer systems. Currently, I’m mostly focusing ondata processing and data management, in particular in-memory systems.

From my research during my PhD, I have an ongoing interest in scientific applications of such technology. Process the petabytes of data produced by today’s scientific experiments provides a unique set of challenges that requires integration of ideas what are currenlty often studied separately:

• Domain Specific Languages: The domain scientists should be able to formulate the processing they intend to perform themselves. This requires a language which is convenient to use for them.

• Distributed Computing: Processing petabytes of data requires massive CPU and memory resources. Clearly we need to apply clusters and grids.

• Data Management: Handling and organizing such large data sizes needs large storage capacities and advanced data organization. Scientific Data Management has become an active research area in systems at its own.

Work

I’m a software engineer for Amazon AWS, working in the ElastiCache group.

Other Interests

During my time as a research assistant I worked on optimization projects. We’ve applied mostly evolutionary algorithms which try to mimic nature’s capability to adapt itself optimally to a given environment with genetic recombination and mutation.

I did my master thesis on Multi-task learning for image categorization. While I’m currently not working in computer vision, I’m still interested in machine learning and its applications.

Besides computer science, I’m trying to get the hang on photography. But I have to admit that the average tourist likely takes better pictures than me. You can see some of my attempts in the Gallery.