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Full name: Martin Kersten
Formal name: Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten
Function: CWI-Fellow

Email: Martin.Kersten@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4066
Room:  L312
Homepage:  www.cwi.nl/~mk
Research groups:
(INS1) Database architectures


Research

The research focus is database architectures, query optimization and their use in scientific databases. He is an architect of the MonetDB system, a world-wide renowned open-source column store for data warehouses. He has been (co-) founder of several successful CWI spin-offs.

Career

2011 -  CWI Fellow INS1 - Database Architectures
2000 - 2009 Group leader INS0 - Standardization and Knowledge Transfer
1997 - 2010 Leader Scientific Cluster INS - Information Systems
1997 - 2010 Group leader INS1 - Database Architectures
1985 - 1996 Group leader AA4 - Databases

Selected Awards and Honours

2011CIDR 2011, the most intuitive "Gong Show" idea
2010CWI Fellow
2009VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award
2009Best Paper Runner Up SIGMOD 2009

Selected Academic Activities

2009 Program chair St. Petersburg, Russia - International Conference on Extending Database Technology - [EDBT]
2008 Program chair Cancun, Mexico - International Conference on Data Engineering
2006 Session chair Seoul, South Korea - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases - [VLDB]
2005 Organizer Trondheim, Norway - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases - [VLDB]
2005 Co-organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - [ICME]

Recent Publications

M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers, E. Petraki, T.H.J. Sellam, Y. Kargin, M.M. Gawade, V.V. Meduri, H. Mühleisen. MonetDB Oct2012-SP3 bugfix release. 2013.
H. Pirk, F. Funke, M. Grund, T. Neumann, U. Leser, S. Manegold, A. Kemper, M.L. Kersten. CPU and Cache Efficient Management of Memory-Resident Databases. IEEE International Conference on Data EngineeringProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013.
M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers, E. Petraki, T.H.J. Sellam, Y. Kargin, M.M. Gawade, V.V. Meduri, H. Mühleisen. MonetDB Oct2012-SP2 bugfix release. 2012.
M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers, E. Petraki, T.H.J. Sellam, Y. Kargin, M.M. Gawade, V.V. Meduri, I Fundulaki, H. Mühleisen. MonetDB Oct2012-SP1 bugfix release. 2012.
M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers, E. Petraki, T.H.J. Sellam, Y. Kargin, M.M. Gawade, V.V. Meduri, I Fundulaki. MonetDB Oct2012 feature release. 2012.

All publications (link to repository)

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