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: Database Architectures
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: 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
| 2013 - | CWI-fellow DIR - Directie |
| 2011 - 2013 | 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
| 2011 | CIDR 2011, the most intuitive "Gong Show" idea |
| 2010 | CWI Fellow |
| 2009 | VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award |
| 2009 | Best 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
| T.H.J. Sellam, M.L. Kersten. Meet Charles, big data query advisor. Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 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, H. Mühleisen. MonetDB Feb2013-SP1 bugfix release. 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, H. Mühleisen. MonetDB Feb2013 feature release. 2013. |
| E. Liarou, S. Idreos, S. Manegold, M.L. Kersten. Enhanced Stream Processing in a DBMS Kernel. Proceedings of International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2013, 2013. |
| M. Koubarakis, C. Kontoes, S. Manegold, M. Karpathiotakis, K. Kyzirakos, K. Bereta, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, D. Michail, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, M. Ivanova, Ying Zhang, H. Pirk, M.L. Kersten, K. Dogani, S. Giannakopoulou, P. Smeros. Real-Time Wildfire Monitoring Using Scientific Database and Linked Data Technologies. Proceedings of International Conference on Extending Database Technology 2013, 2013. |

