Maximilian Kuschewski

Ph.D. Student at TU Munich

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I am a Ph.D. student at the Technical University Munich, researching databases at the Chair for Decentralized Information Systems and Data Management under Viktor Leis. Before that, I was a student at TU Munich, LMU Munich, and the University of Augsburg, completing my bachelors degree in computer science and engineering, and my masters degree in software engineering. I'm interested in high-performance software, distributed systems, and programming languages.

Publications

SIGMOD 2025
Research Paper

High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing PerformanceMaximilian Kuschewski, Jana Giceva, Thomas Neumann, Viktor Leis

SIGMOD 2023
Research Paper

BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data LakesMaximilian Kuschewski, David Sauerwein, Adnan Alhomssi, Viktor Leis

VLDB 2021
Vision Paper

Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the CloudViktor Leis, Maximilian Kuschewski

CIDR 2021
Short Paper

White-Box OLAP Performance Modeling for the CloudMaximilian Kuschewski, Viktor Leis

Education

01/2021 - now
Ph.D. Student

I'm doing my Ph.D. with Prof. Viktor Leis at the Technical University Munich. At the moment I am researching analytical database systems and efficient query processing.

10/2018 - 11/2020
Master of Science, Multiple Universities. Final Grade 1.02 (GPA 3.9~4.0)

I was part of the Software Engineering Elite Graduate Program and received my masters degree in software engineering in 2020. During this time, I was a student at the University of Augsburg, the Technical University of Munich, as well as the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

09/2015 - 09/2018
Bachelor of Science, University of Augsburg. Final Grade 1.56 (GPA 3.6~3.8)

Until 2018, I was a student at the University of Augsburg, studying Computer Science and Engineering.

Working Experience

10/2022 - now
TU Munich

I am employed at the Chair for Decentralized Information Systems and Data Management at the Technical University Munich as a doctoral researcher, where I research databases and supervise various courses, student projects, and theses.

04/2021 - 09/2022
University Erlangen

I was employed at the Chair for Data Management of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg as a research assistant. I then moved to TU Munich together with Prof. Leis.

04/2020 - 03/2021
University of Jena

I was employed at the Chair for Databases and Information Systems at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena as a research assistant. I then moved to Erlangen together with the chair.

08/2019 - 10/2019
Oracle Labs Zurich

As a research assistant at Oracle Labs Zurich I contributed to a large oracle-internal software project. I designed the architecture for a new part of the system together with my mentor and implemented and integrated it afterwards with great success.

10/2017 - 01/2020
Integer IT

At the IT Firm Integer I was responsible for developing and maintaining internal software projects. I designed and developed several customer projects from start to finish.

01/2016 - 10/2017
IT-Department, University of Augsburg

Working at the IT-Department of the biggest faculty on campus, I administered multiple Linux VMs and developed and maintained a Ruby on Rails App used for organizing most internal data.

08/2015 - 09/2015
Smartrac Technology GmbH

In a summer internship at Smartrac, I created an extension for their Smart Cosmos IoT system, which enabled sending SMS in connection with IoT events using Twilio.

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