People
Head of Data Systems and Theory Group
Administrator
- Denise Gloor (gloor@ifi.uzh.ch; +41 44 635 67 58)
Senior Assistants
Dr. Andrei Draghici
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Oxford)
- Research interests: static and dynamic query evaluation, computational logic, and the application of machine learning techniques to relational data.
Dr. Haozhe Zhang
- DPhil in Computer Science (University of Oxford) on Fully Dynamic Evaluation for Conjunctive Queries with Free Access Patterns
- Research interests: query optimization, incremental view maintenance
PhD Students
Eden Chmielewski
- MSc in Computer Science (University of Washington)
- BSc in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (University of Washington)
- Taught databases at UW
- Research interests: database theory, algorithm design and analysis
Yuchen He
- MSc in Informatics with Major Artificial Intelligence (University of Zurich)
- Research interests: intersection of linear algebra and relational algebra
Christoph Mayer
- MSc in Informatics with Major Data Science (University of Zurich)
- Head of Data Science at a real-estate investment firm
- Analyst & Associate at a private equity investment firm
- BSc in Management and Technology (Technical University of Munich)
- Research interests: adaptive query processing, query optimization
External Lecturer
PD Dr. Alexander Offtermatt Souza
- Venia legendi in Computer Science (HU Berlin)
- Dr.-sc. in Computer Science (ETH Zürich)
- Dipl. Inform. in Computer Science and Mathematics (TU München)
- Lectures on "Combinatorial Algorithms" and "Randomized Algorithms" at U Zürich since 2014
- Research in Combinatorial Optimization, especially large-scale solvers and real-world applications
- Founder and CEO of optimization company Algomia: https://algomia.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-souza-1989004/
BSc and MSc Students
- Junyong Cao
- Qingxuan Chen
- Uros Dimitrijevic
- Grigor Dochev
- Alen Frey
- David Lebrec
- Zisen Liu
- Nuri Tas
- Taishuo Zheng
- Weimin Yang
Current External Collaborators
- Mahmoud Abo-Khamis, Computer Scientist (RelationalAI)
- Daniel Deutch, Professor (Tel Aviv U.)
- Ilias Fountalis, Computer Scientist (RelationalAI)
- Niko Göbel, Computer Scientist (RelationalAI)
- Christoph Koch, Professor (EPFL)
- Milos Nikolic, Professor (U. Edinburgh)
- Amir Shaikhha, Professor (U. Edinburgh)
- Dan Suciu, Professor (U. Washington)
- Immanuel Trummer, Professor (Cornell U.)
- Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Computer Scientist (RelationalAI)
- Nils Vortmeier, Postdoctoral Scholar (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Former External Collaborators
- Balder ten Cate, Computer Scientist (LogicBlox)
- Ryan R. Curtin, Computer Scientist (RelationalAI)
- TJ Green, Computer Scientist (LogicBlox)
- Benny Kimelfeld, Computer Scientist (LogicBlox)
- Benjamin Moseley, Professor (Carnegie Mellon U.)
- Hung Q. Ngo, VP Research (RelationalAI)
- XuanLong Nguyen, Professor (U. Michigan)