Team Members

Current and former members of the Systems Group.

Photo Name Working area(s) Contact
Professors
Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig		Data and AI Systems
+49 6151 16-25601
S2|02 D106
Prof. Dr. Zsolt István		Distributed and Networked Systems
+49 6151 16-23213
S2|02 A312
Administrative staff
Mona Hajdu		Assistant to Prof. Binnig
+49 6151 16-25600
S2|02 D108
Kathrin Luijk		Assistant to Prof. István
+49 6151 16-23214
S2|02 A310
Technical Staff
Daniel Pankraz		Systems Administrator & Programmer
+49 6151 16-25758
S2|02 E112
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Ing. Pratyush Agnihotri		Future Data Systems, DFKI
S2|02 A322
Dr. Zixuan Chen
S2|02 D111
Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Hättasch		Machine Learning for Data Engineering, DFKI
+49 6151 962702900
S2|02 E112
Dr.-Ing. Manisha Luthra Agnihotri (né Luthra)		Future Data Systems, DFKI
S2|02 A322
Dr.-Ing. Shaza Zeitouni		Security and Systems
S2|02 A316
Doctoral Researchers
Jan-Micha Bodensohn M.Sc.		Machine Learning for Data Engineering, DFKI
S2|02 D111
Nils Boeschen M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-27816
S2|02 E115
Eduardo dos Reis		Machine Learning for Data Engineering
S2|02 A322
Uelison dos Santos		Future Data Systems, DFKI
S2|02 A322
Timo Eckmann M.Sc.		Machine Learning for Data Engineering
S2|02 D111
Faeze Faghih		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-25603
S2|02 D110
Alessandro Ferri M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
S202 A322
Nadja Geisler M.Sc.		Machine Learning for Data Engineering
25607
S2|02 E112
Long Gu M.Sc.		Security and Systems
S2|02 A316
Maximilian Hüttner		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-27816
S2|02 E115
Matthias Jasny M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
S2|02 A309
Jigao Luo M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
S2|02 E115
Adrian Lutsch M.Sc.		Security and Systems
S2|02 A316
Lukas Stasytis		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-27816
S2|02 E115
Matthias Urban M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-25603
S2|02 D110
Liane Vogel M.Sc.		Machine Learning for Data Engineering
+49 6151 16-25026
S2|02 D111
Johannes Wehrstein M.Sc.		Future Data Systems
+49 6151 16-25603
S2|02 D110
External Ph.D. Students
Ulf Brackmann		SAP, Machine Learning for Data Engineering
Alumni
Dr.-Ing. Tiemo Bang		Gray Systems Lab (Microsoft)
Dr. rer. nat. Muhammad El-Hindi		TU Munich
Roman Heinrich M.Sc.		BASF
Dr. Stefan Hildebrandt
Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Hilprecht		Snowflake
Simon Karrer M.Sc.		SAVIAN
Girish Kotre
Sven Langenecker Dr.-Ing.		Läpple Group
Meghdad Mirabi Ph.D.
Dr. Christoph Pinkel		Snowflake
Dr.-Ing. Robin Rehrmann		IBM
Dr. Abdallah Salama		Atos
Dr. Anupam Sanghi		Assistant Professor@IIT Hyderabad
Vivian Taylor		AIML Lab, TU Darmstadt
Dr. rer. nat. Lasse Thostrup		MFT Energy
Benedikt Völker M.Sc.		Deloitte
Dr. Zheguang Zhao		University of Melbourne
Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Ziegler		TigerBeetle

Visiting Scientists

Name Home University E-mail Time Period
Prof. Amr El-Abbadi University of California Santa Barbara 05.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
Prof. Bettina Kemme McGill University 17.11.2021 – 03.12.2021
Prof. Andreas Schmidt Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie 01.04.2019 – 31.08.2019
Prof. Uwe Röhm The University of Sydney 13.08.2018 – 16.02.2019

Research Interns

Name Home University E-Mail Time Period
Sumith Kulal Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay 15.05.2018 – 09.08.2018
Aditya Khanna Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay 11.05.2019 -
03.08.2019
Arpit Aggarwal Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay 11.05.2019 – 29.07.2019
Ajay Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay 15.05.2019 – 29.07.2019
Akash Kumar Mohankumar Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras 20.05.2019 -
24.07.2019
Yangshen Deng Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China 01.01.2025 -
31.03.2025