Teaching

Courses @UTN that I have been a TA of:

• 💻 Advanced Programming II: Summer Semester 2026
• ☁️ Cloud Databases: Winter Semester 2025/2026
• ☁️ Cloud Databases: Summer Semester 2024
• ⚙️ Data Engineering: Winter Semester 2023/2024 [secondary TA]

Students

During these years, I had the immense pleasure of working with the following students from whom I have learned a lot. Germany has always been an attractor for international students (myself included). Notably, working with talent from all over the world makes one's research even more enriching.

• Malek Ben Slimane, Augsburg University & LMU & TUM, Master's Thesis, Caching and Reuse of Subresult Metadata in Query Processing (May 2026)
• Hedi Chehaidar, TUM, Bachelor's Thesis, Improved Symbol Table Construction for FSST Compression (Feb 2026)
• Ping-Lin Kuo, UTN, Master's Thesis, Correlation-Aware String Compression (Oct 2025)
• Skander Krid, Augsburg University & LMU & TUM, Master's Thesis, Workload Synthesis for Benchmarking Instance-Optimized Components (Aug 2025)
• Salim Hertelli, Augsburg University & LMU & TUM, Master's Thesis, An Analysis of Semi-Join Reduction in Query Optimization (Nov 2024)
• Hanwen Liu, TUM, Master's Thesis, Efficiently Encoding Correlated Columns (May 2024)

Last update: Dec 9, 2025