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I'm Laurent Bindschaedler
I'm a Researcher working on Systems for Big Data, Graph Processing, and Machine Learning
- Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
- Address Room 409, MPI-SWS, Campus E 1 5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Contact bindsch AT mpi-sws DOT org
- Students starting in 2025
I am a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) where I lead the Data Systems Group (DSG). I build systems for Big Data, Graph Processing, and Machine Learning. I am also interested in improving Systems with Machine Learning. Prior to joining MPI-SWS, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Tim Kraska. In 2020, I completed my Ph.D. at EPFL, Switzerland, advised by Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel. Before my graduate studies, I worked on my own Cloud Computing startup.
Research Interests
Publications
Towards Reliable Latent Knowledge Estimation in LLMs: Zero-Prompt Many-Shot Based Factual Knowledge Extraction
AlterEgo: A Dedicated Blockchain Node For Analytics
Unshackling Database Benchmarking from Synthetic Workloads
Accurate Automatic Camera Calibration on Low-Quality CCTV Traffic Video Streams
Tesseract: Distributed, General Graph Pattern Mining on Evolving Graphs
Towards a Benchmark for Learned Systems
Hailstorm: Disaggregated Compute and Storage for Distributed LSM-based Databases
Rock You Like a Hurricane: Taming Skew in Large Scale Analytics
Chaos: Scale-out Graph Processing from Secondary Storage
Benchmarking X-Stream and Graphchi
Big Brother Knows Your Friends: on Privacy of Social Communities in Pervasive Networks
Track Me If You Can: on the Effectiveness of Context-based Identifier Changes in Deployed Mobile Networks
Portfolio
Work Experience
Host: Prof. Tim Kraska
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel
Awards and Achievements
Early Postdoc.Mobility — 2020
Awarded an Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation. [ Link]
Best Video Award — ASPLOS Conference — 2020
Teaching Assistant Award — EPFL IC Faculty — 2017
Awarded by EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences for excellent contributions to teaching. [ Link]
Public Prize Winner — Exposure Movie Hackathon — 2017
PhD Fellowship — EDIC EPFL — 2015
Awarded by EPFL’s Computer and Communication Sciences Doctoral Program (EDIC). EDIC awards promising students a one-year fellowship. [ Link]
Round 1 Winner — Venture Kick — 2012
Venture Kick is an initiative to support Swiss startups with enough funding to kick-start their entrepreneurial success. Awarded a first round grant with LakeMind. [ Link]
Contact Me
Feel free to get in touch with me. I am always open to discussing new ideas, projects or opportunities.
- E-mail laurent AT binds DOT ch
- Phone +49 681 93039110
- Skype laurent.bindschaedler
- Address Room 409, MPI-SWS, Campus E 1 5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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