Former Group Members

Postdocs :

	Dr Hamza Harkous Research Scientist at Google
	2018,  Data-Driven, Personalized Usable Privacy
	Dr Hao Zhuang Manager at AIXPERT
	2018,  Multicloud Resource Allocation Cooperation, Optimization and Sharing
	Dr Martin Benjamin Director of Kamusi
	2018
	Alexandru Constantin
	2017
	Natalia Boyarskaya
	2017
	Dr Michele Catasta Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
	2017,  MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems
	Dr Julien Eberle Data Scientist at Swiss Data Science Center
	2016,  Energy-efficient Continuous Context Sensing on Mobile Phones
	Vsevolod Soloviov Team Leader at ScienceWISE
	2016
	Dr Jean-Paul Calbimonte senior researcher at the Institute of Information Systems (IIG) at HES-SO Valais
	2015
	Dr Rameez Rahman Scientist in Nokia Bell Lab
	2015
	Dr Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen Scientist in Queensland Univeristy
	2015
	Dr Matteo Vasirani Global Analytics at Electronic Arts, Geneva
	2014
	Dr Xin Liu Scientist in ASTAR(Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)
	2014
	Dr. Sofiane Sarni Project Manager, EPFL, Vice Presidency for Information Systems / Information Systems Coordination
	2014
	Dr Robert Gwadera Senior Data Scientist in Swiss Re
	2013
	Dr Athanasios Papaioannou Researcher in Information Technologies Institute, Center for Research & Technology Hellas
	2013
	Dr Zhixian Yan Staff Researcher at Samsung R&D U.S. Labs, San Jose, California, USA.
	2012
	Dr Zoltan Miklos Maitre de Conferences, University of Rennes 1, France.
	2012
	Dr Hoyoung Jeung Senior Researcher, SAP Research, Brisbane, Australia.
	2011
	Dr Sebastian Michel Research group leader at the Saarland University, Germany
	2009
	Dr Vasilios Darlagiannis Researcher at Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Greece
	2008
	Dr Vijay Agneeswaran Principal Researcher, Oracle, Bangalore, India
	2008
	Dr Andreas Wombacher Assistant Professor at University Twente
	2008
	Dr Yongluan Zhou Assistant Professor at University of Southern Denmark
	2008
	Dr Ivana Podnar Assistant Professor at University Zagreb, Croatia
	2007
	Dr Manfred Hauswirth Vice Director & Stream Leader & Unit Leader USM at National University Galway, Ireland
	2006

PHD Students :
	Dr thành tâm Nguyên
	2019,  Privacy – Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation
	Dr Alevtina Dubovitskaya
	2018,  Privacy – Preserving Data Exchange and Aggregation in Healthcare
	Dr Julia Proskurnia Software Engineer at Google
	2017,  Profiling, Modelling and Facilitating Online Activism
	Dr Amit Gupta Software Engineer at Google
	2017,  Automated Taxonomy Induction and its Applications
	Dr Jean-Eudes Ranvier Data scientist at FAIRTIQ
	2017,  Complex Event Recognition through Wearable Sensors
	Dr Tian Guo Research Scientist at ETH Zurich
	2017,  Distributed Time Series Analytics
	Dr Berker Agir Senior Software Developer at Smartwatcher Technologies
	2016,  Context and Semantic Aware Location Privacy
	Dr Alexandra Olteanu Social Good Fellow, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
	2016,  Probing the Limits of Social Data: Biases, Methods and Domain Knowledge
	Dr Tri-Kurniawan Wijaya Data Scientist, Trivago
	2015,  Pervasive Data Analytics for Sustainable Energy Systems
	Dr Mehdi Riahi SWISSQUOTE
	2014,  Data Management in Participatory Sensing
	Dr Surender Reddy Yerva R&D Redmond Microsoft
	2013,  Entities on the Web: Resolution, Matching and Profiling
	Dr Saket Sathe Staff Researcher at IBM Research, Melbourne (Australia)
	2013,  Statistical Models for Querying and Managing Time-Series Data
	Dr Rammohan Narendula Security Architect, CipherCloud, CA
	2013,  Privacy-aware Publishing of Decentralized Access-Controlled Content
	Dr Urs Hunkeler CIO, Geosatis SA, Noirmont, Suisse
	2013,  Distributed Sensor Data Models and Their Impact on Energy Consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks
	Dr Nicolas Bonvin CTO & Partner at Causal Sàrl, Fribourg, Switzerland
	2012,  Linear Scalability of Distributed Applications
	Dr Wojciech Galuba Data Scientist at Facebook, Palo Alto, California, USA
	2011,  Signaling and Reciprocity : Robust Decentralized Information Flows in Social, Communication, and Computer Networks
	Dr Parisa Haghani Google, New York, USA
	2010,  Efficient Processing of Queries Ranking in Novel Applications
	Dr Le Hung Vu Software Development Lead at routeRANK SA, Lausanne
	2010,  High Quality P2P Service Provisioning via Decentralized Trust Management
	Dr Adriana Budura Business analyst at Credit Suisse, Zurich
	2010,  Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web
	Dr Oana Jurca
	2010,  A Publish/Subscribe Approach to Processing Continuous Queries over Sensor Streams
	Dr Ali Salehi Postdoc at CSIRO, Australia
	2010,  Design and implementation of an efficient data stream processing system
	Dr Gleb Skobeltsyn Postdoc at Google in Zurich
	2009,  Query-driven indexing in large-scale distributed systems
	Dr Sarunas Girdzijauskas Senior Researcher in the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, Sweden
	2009,  Designing peer-to-peer overlays : a small-world perspective
	Dr Roman Schmidt Vice President – Project Manager at JP Morgan, Geneva, Switzerland
	2008,  Sharing of probabilistically correlated data in peer-to-peer networks
	Dr Fabius Klemm Wuala startup
	2007,  A high-performance distributed hash table for peer-to-peer information retrieval
	Dr Magdalena Punceva UGD, Macedonia
	2006,  Self-organizing structured peer-to-peer overlay networks
	Dr Anwitaman Datta Assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
	2006,  SoS: self-organizing substrates
	Dr Philippe Cudre-Mauroux Associate Professor at University of Fribourg, Suisse
	2006,  Emergent semantics
	Dr Jie Wu Enterpreneur in Bejing
	2005,  Distributed link-based ranking in P2P Web retrieval
	Dr Zoran Despotovic Research Scientist at DoCoMo Euro-Labs
	2005,  Building trust-aware P2P systems

Interns/Master Students/Engineers :

• Agarwal Ashish (Intern), 2001
• Arvind Menon (Intern), 2001
• Todd Miller (Intern), 2002
• Emma Frejinger (Summer intern), 2002
• Mindaugas Rybokas (Summer Intern), 2003
• Silvia Quarteroni (Summer Intern), 2003
• Enrico Giacoletto (Master Student), 2003
• Tim van Pelt (Master Student), 2004
• Lisheng Zhou (Intern), 2004
• Andras Feher (Master Student), 2005
• Amit Lakhani (Intern), 2005
• Mohit Chawla (Intern), 2005
• Damantas Brucas (Intern), 2005
• Julien Gaugaz (Master Student), 2005
• Renault John (Master Student), 2005
• Pratyus Patnaik (Intern), 2006
• Suchit Agarwal (Intern), 2006
• Pripuzic Kresimir (Master Student), 2006
• Gearoid Hynes (Summer Intern), 2007
• Anmol Tomar (Intern), 2007
• Michel Greis (Master Student), 2007
• Rui Guo (Master Student), 2007
• Auguilar Antonio (Intern), 2008
• Marc Sanchez (Intern), 2008
• Darragh Grealish (Intern), 2008
• Sheila Kinsella (Intern), 2008
• Doug Lundquist (Intern), 2008
• Tiruvaipati Sushanth (Intern), 2008
• Jain Anshul (Intern), 2008
• Bonadalapati Srikanth (Intern), 2008
• Hamadi Fouzia (Intern), 2008
• Kayyoor Ashwin Kumar (Intern), 2008
• Xiang Shili (Intern), 2008
• Wu Ji (Intern), 2008
• Jost Michael (Intern), 2008
• Kondreddi Sarath Kumar (Intern), 2008
• Akshay Kiran Singh (Intern), 2009
• Vinod Vishwakarma (Intern), 2009
• Shourabh Singh Rawat (Intern), 2009
• Shree Prakash Shukla (Intern), 2009
• Sergey Koplyov (Intern), 2009
• Marco Zuniga (Intern), 2009
• Mosalikanti Sirisha (Intern), 2009
• Reva Phanindra (Intern), 2009
• Itaru Sekita (Exchange Student), 2009
• Bostanipour Behnaz (Intern), 2010
• Timothee Maret (Engineer), 2010
  
• Om Prakash Pal (Intern), 2010
• Phanindra Reva (Intern), 2010
• Ashwin Kayyoor (Intern), 2010
• Ivashko Artem (Intern), 2010
• Vakili Golnaz (Intern), 2010
• Prokofyev Roman (Intern), 2010
• Pursultani Hossein  (Intern), 2010
• Nguyen Thanh Tam (Master Student), 2010
• Alexandru Arion (Research and Teaching Assistant), 2012
• Vasileios Koukoulommatis (Master thesis), 2012
• Georgios Liassas (Master thesis), 2012
• Artyom Stetsenko (Master thesis), 2012
• Puneet Sharma (Master Intern), 2014
• Milos Stojanovic (Master Intern), 2014
• Hamada Zahera (Master Intern), 2014
• Vladimir Antipin (Master Intern), 2014
• Anatolii Koval (Master Intern), 2014
• Abdessalam Ouaazki (Master Intern), 2014
• Sarvenaz Choobdar (Exchange PhD student), 2014
• Olena Kuznetsova (Research Assitant), 2014
• Tommaso Pirini (Exchange PhD student), 2015
• Ivan Bereziuk (Master Intern), 2015
• Burak Zeydan, 2015
• Nataliya Kryvych, 2015
• Bojan Karlas, 2015
• Andrii Magalich, 2015
• Julien Ribon, 2016
• Andrii Romaniukov (Intern), 2016
• Anastasia Sokolenko (Intern), 2016
• Bohdan Tantsiura (Intern), 2016

Academic Visitors :

• Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, June – July 2001
• Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, June – July 2001
• Tamer Ozsu, University Waterloo, July 2001
  
• Peter Fankhauser, L3S, September 2001
• Aris Ouksel, University Chicago, June – August 2002
• Harald Gall, University Vienna, July 2003
• Sharam Dustar, University Vienna, July 2003
• Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University, July 2003
• Alex Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, July 2004
• Wolfgang Nejdl, University Hannover and L3S, July – August 2004
• Thomas Hoffmann, Google Research Z�rich, February 2005
• Witold Litwin, University Paris 9, July 2006
• Thomas Schwarz, July 2006
• Aris Ouksel, University Chicago, July 2006
• Erik Aurell, KTH, July 2006
• Alberto Montresor, University Trento, July 2006
• Takahiro Hara, University Osaka, August – September 2006
• Hermann de Meer, University Passau, March – April 2007
• Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, July 2008
• Zhao Lu, East China Normal University, September 2008 – August 2009                    
• Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, June 2009
• Dan Olteanu, Oxford University, June 2009
  
• Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research Lab, 2010 – October 2011
• Luke McDowell, United States Naval Academy, Aug 2011 – July 2012
  
• Imen Filali, National Engineering School of Gabes, Tunisia,2015