Full name: Niels Nes
Formal name: Dr. N.J. Nes
Function: Manager Information Technology & Facilities, Scientific Staff Member

Email: Niels.Nes@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4098
Room:  L314
Homepage:  ~niels
Department: Information Technology and Facilities
Research groups:
(INS1) Database architectures

Research

The research focus is database architectures, done through the open source main memory database engine, MonetDB and X100. He has been co-founder of MonetDB B.V. and Vectorwise B.V., successful CWI spin-offs.

Career

2010 -	Head ITF -
1999 -	Scientific staff member INS1 - Database Architectures

Selected Awards and Honours

2009	Best Paper Runner Up SIGMOD 2009

Selected Academic Activities

2008 -	Founder VectorWise
2008 -	Founder MonetDB B.V.
2003 - 2008	Project leader

Recent Publications

Ying Zhang, L.H.A. Scheers, M.L. Kersten, M. Ivanova, N.J. Nes. Astronomical Data Processing Using SciQL, an SQL Based Query Language for Array Data. Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems 2011 (ADASS XXI), ASP Conference Series, 2012.

M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, M. Ivanova, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, E. Liarou, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers, E. Petraki, T.H.J. Sellam, Y. Kargin, M.M. Gawade. MonetDB Aug2011-SP3 bugfix release. 2011.

M.L. Kersten, P.A. Boncz, N.J. Nes, S. Manegold, K.S. Mullender, Fabian Groffen, J. A. de Rijke, Ying Zhang, M. Ivanova, S. Idreos, R. A. Goncalves, L. Sidirourgos, E. Liarou, H. Pirk, P. Minh Duc, L.H.A. Scheers. MonetDB Mar2011 feature release. 2011.

Ying Zhang, M.L. Kersten, M. Ivanova, N.J. Nes. SciQL, Bridging the Gap between Science and Relational DBMS. International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, 2011.

M.L. Kersten, Ying Zhang, M. Ivanova, N.J. Nes. SciQL, A Query Language for Science Applications. Proceedings of EDBT/ICDT - Workshop on Array Databases 2011, 2011.

Other publications (link to repository)