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General Information

Full Name Tim Gubner
Languages German, English, Dutch

Education

  • 2016 - 2024
    Ph.D.
    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Database Architectures
    • Alternative query execution strategies (just-in-time compilation, single-instruction-multiple-data...)
    • Simplify code generation via domain-specific language
    • Avoid hardware-specific cost models via (micro-)adaptivity
    • Compressed execution
    • Thesis: Adaptively Generating Heterogeneous Execution Strategies using the VOILA Framework
  • 2012 - 2015
    M.Sc.
    TU Ilmenau, Germany
    • Computer Science with extension modules for databases, distributed systems and data analytics.
    • Thesis: Achieving many-core scalability in Vectorwise
  • 2008 - 2012
    B.Sc.
    TU Ilmenau, Germany
    • Computer Science
    • Thesis: Parallelization of BDC operators

Experience

  • 2022 - now
    Principal Engineer
    Huawei
    Cloud Database Advanced Technology Lab
    • Designing DBMS components
    • Writing code and articles
    • Mentoring interns and co-workers
    • Hermes
      • Storage & Transaction Handling
      • Distributed Engine & Scalability
      • Many-core Scalability (> 100s cores)
  • 2020 - 2021
    Intern
    Databricks
  • 2016 - 2022
    Ph.D. Student
    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
    See Education/Ph.D.
  • 2014 - 2016
    Senior Software Engineer
    Actian
    • Working on Vectorwise/Vector
    • Improving many-core Scalability (cont. M.Sc. project)
  • 2013 - 2014
    Intern / M.Sc. Student
    Actian

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    Gold Medal for Individual Contribution at Huawei Sweden
  • 2020
    Best Research Paper at ICDE

Academic Engagement

  • 2026 - now
    Program Committee VLDB Industry Track
  • 2025 - now
    Program Committee SIGMOD Research Track
  • 2021 - 2022
    Committee 'Research Review Computer Sciences in the Netherlands'