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Main research areas:

• Software Performance Engineering
• Autonomic Computing
• Run-Time Performance and Resource Management
• Component-based Software Engineering

Technology domains:

• Distributed Component-based Systems
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Benchmarking
• Elasticity
• Workload Forecasting

Awards

• FZI Best Diploma Thesis Prize, sponsored by FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, July 2013
  

• IBM System z Application Award sponsored by IBM Germany, Karlsruhe, Oktober 2011

Invited Talks

• Benchmarking Elasticity of Virtualized Resources, Invited Talk, SPEC Research Group Cloud, April 10, 2012

• Workload Classification and Forecasting, Invited Talk, KoSSE-Syposium Application Performance Management, Kiel, November 29/30, 2012

Functions and Memberships

Descartes Research Group Member
SPEC Research Group, Cloud Working Group Elected Release Manager

Projects

• Modagile Mobile
• Realtech Timplify
• EU FP7 Cactos

Teaching

Currently, I am supervising the Master's Thesis of Joakim von Kistowski, working title Modeling the Variation of Load Intensities and the Master's Thesis of Andreas Weber, working title Bechmarking Resource Elasticity in Cloud Environments.

I am/was involved in supervising students during multiple practical courses and seminars between the summer term 2012 and the current winter term 2013/14. The practical courses and seminar are/were, among others:

• Practical Course Qualität von Anwendungen auf Cloud-Großrechner IBM z10
• ProSeminar Inside Eclipse
• Seminar Big Data, Architektur und Performance

• ACM Computing Surveys, 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014
• USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2103
• ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA), 2013

Last Update: October 22, 2013