Currently working with me

Students/Researchers I supervise currently:

  • Xenofon Chatziliadis -- PhD Candidate -- TU Berlin (with Volker Markl)
  • Gereon Dusella -- PhD Candidate -- TU Berlin (with Volker Markl)
  • Aske Wachs -- Master Thesis -- ITU
  • Johan Kjersgård Flensmark, Benjamin Hammer Thygesen, Alexander Theodor Bilde Pedersen -- Master Thesis -- ITU
  • Barbara Puljak -- Master Thesis -- ITU

Previously working with me

  • IT University of Copenhagen

    Dagmara Kamila Przygocka, Kamila Garczynska, Barbara Puljak

    Exploring Spatial Data Loading Optimizations in DuckDB

    MSc Research Project

    Fall 2023


    Carl Bruun & Rasmus Garbarsch

    Danish Study Reallocation Initiative: An Efficient and Interactive Visual Exploration Tool

    Bachelor Thesis

    Spring 2023


    Gergo Gyori

    Manipulation of Geospatial Data: a Dashboard Within Hungary's Geographical Scope

    Bachelor Thesis

    Spring 2023


    Peter Løffmann, Thomas Haugaard Mogensen, Zachery Kuntz

    Harnessing Heterogeneous Spatial Data for Earth Observation: A Survey

    MSc Research Project

    Fall 2022

  • Technische Universität Berlin

    Martin Kiefer

    PhD Candidate

    Primary Supervisor: Prof. Volker Markl

    You can read about the results of our joint work in our VLDB 2023 publication.


    Hanno Skowronek

    Multi-Scale Search and Retrieval for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery

    Master Thesis

    Co-supervision with Begüm Demir

    Spring 2023


    Gereon Dusella

    A Comparative Benchmark for Join Operations between Raster and Vector Data

    Master Thesis

    Co-supervision with Haralampos Gavriilidis

    Spring 2023


    Laert Nuhu

    A Benchmark for Spatial Workloads: Combining Vector and Raster Data and Queries

    Master Thesis

    Co-supervision with Haralampos Gavriilidis

    Spring 2022


    Pablo Alberto Osinaga Arze

    Enabling Moving Range Queries in Stream Processing Systems

    Master Thesis

    Fall 2021


    Marcellus Prama Saputra

    In-Place Updates in Tree-Encoded Bitmaps

    Bachelor Thesis

    Spring 2021

    You can read about the results of the thesis in our SSDBM 2022 publication.


    Iva Mihajlovska

    Tree-Based Bitmap Index Compression

    Master Thesis

    Spring 2021


    Robin Papke

    Mobility-Aware Acquisition of Fog Resources for the Internet of Things

    Master Thesis

    Fall 2020


    Elena Beatriz Ouro Paz

    Towards Resilient Data Management for the Internet of Moving Things

    Master Thesis

    Spring 2020

    You can read about the results of the thesis in our BTW 2021 publication.


    Carlos E. Muniz Cuza

    Stochastic Traffic Speed Estimation using Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

    Master Thesis

    Joint thesis with Aalborg University (Prof. Nguyen Thi Thao Ho, Prof. Bin Yang, Prof. Torben Bach Pedersen)

    Spring 2020

    You can read about the results of the thesis in our SIGSPATIAL 2022 publication.

  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Vlad Mihaescu

    Evaluating range queries on interval and range encoded time series data with RUBIK

    2nd year Master’s Project

    Fall 2018


    Maria Ilina

    Efficient bitmap indexing via partitioning, reordering and compression

    Summer Internship

    Summer 2018


    Parand Alizadeh

    Density-driven index bulkloading for efficient spatial data access

    Summer Internship

    Summer 2018


    Chenxi Sun

    Benchmarking Spatial Queries in PostGIS

    Summer Internship

    Summer 2015