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

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.

All publications (link to repository)