CV

Visiting Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, United States

Assistant Professor

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States

Associated Researcher

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States

Postdoctoral Scholar (Prof. Ian Foster)

University of Chicago, Chicago, United States

Research Group Leader (Prof. Samuel Kounev)

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Research Assistant (Prof. Samuel Kounev)

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Doctor rerum naturalium / PhD

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Computer Science

Master of Science

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Computer Science

Bachelor of Science

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Computer Science

Best Industry Paper Award

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2026)

For the paper 'Evaluating Kubernetes Performance for GenAI Inference: From Automatic Speech Recognition to LLM Summarization.'

Best Student Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience 2025)

For the paper 'Efficient Privacy-Preserving Recommendation on Sparse Data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption' (co-author).

Best Teacher Award

Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Each year the department selects the best teacher.

GAIN Participation Grant

German Academic International Network (GAIN)

The GAIN conference connects internationally mobile German scientists with representatives from the scientific community, politics, and industry.

Runner-up for Best Data Challenge Paper

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2023)

For the paper 'Efficient Data Processing: Assessing the Performance of Different Programming Languages.'

SPECtacular Award

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)

The SPECtacular Award is given to individuals who have significantly exceeded expectations in their contributions to SPEC.

Leadership Academy Fellowship

German Scholars Organization

The Leadership Academy Fellowship is awarded to 25 outstanding researchers from all disciplines.

Best Industry Paper Award

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2022)

For the paper 'Why Is It Not Solved Yet? Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling.'

SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)

This annual award recognizes one outstanding doctoral dissertation within the scope of the SPEC Research Group in terms of scientific originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and presentation.

Distinguished Dissertation Award

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Würzburg

An annual award for outstanding dissertations from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Dissertation Award

Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft

An annual award for outstanding dissertations from all disciplines.

Summa cum laude

University of Würzburg

Grading of the doctoral thesis 'Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases.'

Winner of the FameLab State of Bavaria Final

British Council

In this science communication competition, researchers present their work in three minutes in an understandable and humorous way.

NSF CRII: Co-Simulation-Based Optimization of Container Orchestration Platforms

PI. National Science Foundation, award CNS-2451392, $150,000.

MINERVA: Performance Prediction of Microservice Applications with Black-box Container Orchestration

Co-PI with Prof. Samuel Kounev. DFG (German Research Foundation), project 510552229, $347,235 (€322,096).

Google Research Grant: Assessing Microservice Applications Performance for Benchmarking

PI. Google Cloud credits, $5,000.

Google Research Grant: Performance Analysis and Prediction of Microservices in Cloud Environments

PI. Google Cloud credits, $1,000.

Self-Configuring Autoscaler (extension), industrial project with DATEV eG

Assisted with the acquisition as group leader; $30,068, 3 months.

Self-Configuring Autoscaler, industrial project with DATEV eG

Assisted with the acquisition as group leader; $71,200, 6 months.

Prediction of Winter Mortality of Bee Colonies Using Machine Learning

PI. Normalverfahren Grant, Universitätsbund Würzburg, $3,234.

Founder and Chair, Predictive Data Analytics Group

SPEC Research Group

Program Committee

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2027

Program Committee

International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems 2027

Program Committee

International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on e-Science 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2026

Program Committee

Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance 2026

Program Committee

International Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services 2026

Program Committee

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2026

Associate Editor

Frontiers in Digital Health, Health Informatics

Editorial Board Member

ICCK Journal of Systems Scalability

Program Committee

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems 2026

Program Committee

International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering 2025

Financial Chair

International Conference on e-Science 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on e-Science 2025

Program Committee

Symposium on Software Performance 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2025

Editorial Board Member

MDPI Data

Program Committee (Artifact Evaluation)

International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2025

Program Committee

Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2025

Organization Committee

Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications 2025

Organization Committee (Posters)

International Conference on e-Science 2024

Program Committee

Symposium on Software Performance 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 2024

Organization Committee (Data Challenge)

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2025

Program Committee

International Conference on e-Science 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2024

Program Committee (Artifact Evaluation)

International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science 2024

Organization Committee (Posters and Demos)

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2024

Program Committee

International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 2023

Program Committee

Symposium on Software Performance 2023

Program Committee (Posters and Demos)

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2023

Program Committee

International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications 2023

Program Committee

International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2023

Elected Editor of the Annual Newsletter

SPEC Research Group

Program Committee

International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing 2023

Organization Committee

The Second International Workshop on Performance-Data Analytics and Data-Management

Program Committee

International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 2022

Program Committee (Posters and Demos)

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2022

Program Committee

Symposium on Software Performance 2022

Program Committee

International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting 2022

Organization Committee

The First International Workshop on Performance-Data Analytics and Data-Management

Elected Release Manager of the RG Cloud Working Group

SPEC Research Group

Program Committee (Artifact Evaluation)

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2020

Publicity Chair

International Conference on Performance Engineering 2020

Program Committee

Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems 2019

Publicity Chair

Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems 2019