HPI Research Symposium 2023

The Research Schools of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany and invited speakers present their current research topics, providing a forum for exchange and discussion of ideas among industry and academia.

When, Where, Who & What?

Hasso Plattner Institut
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, Potsdam, Germany
April 19-21, 2023

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Reports from the HPI Research Schools

At the 2023 HPI Research Symposium PhD students and professors from both HPI Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (SSE) and Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Research Schools will be presenting their novel research in the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, deep-learning, connected healthcare, Agile software development, and data engineering.

The research talks and case studies will demonstrate industrial applications of modern service-oriented systems integration, analysis of complex data using deep-learning approaches, connected healthcare applications, as well as solutions for the Big Data and IoT challenges we face in our modern world.

We look forward to sharing research among the participants of the symposium at HPI!

Preliminary Agenda (changes still pending)

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

	Room: D-Space (Building H)
9:00-9:30	Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:30-10:00	Welcome Note
10:00-11:00	PhD Talks Khanyisa Malufu, University of Cape Town Consumer Choice of Digital Payment Methods with Multiplicity of Channels – The Case of Zimbabwe Marcus Pappik, Ph.D. Student, HPI, Potsdam Discretization-Based Algorithms for Repulsive Gibbs Point Processes Guidance Mthwazi, University of Cape Town The influence of Electronic Governance on Public Service Delivery Safianu Omar, University of Cape Town Social Media Affordances for Disaster Management
11:00-12:00	Invited Talk: "Softwarization in Computer Networks" Prof. Dr. Holger Karl, Internet-Technology and Softwarization, HPI
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:30	Invited Talk: "Introduction to the AI Service Center at HPI" Dr. Ing. Soner Emec, Project Manager KISZ
13:30-14:30	PhD Talks Shohei Katakura, Ph.D. Student, HPI, Potsdam Optimizing the Mechanical Fit between the Parts of Laser Cut Models Toky Hajatiana Raboanary, University of Cape Town Generating Answerable Questions from Ontologies Frances Gillis-Webber, University of Cape Town Ontology Transformation to a Language-Specific Viewpoint Jaydon Farao, University of Cape Town Digital storytelling for the support of maternal and child well-being
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
15:00-16:00	Session on Expanding HPI Collaboration
16:00-17:00	Poster and Ice Cream Session Spotlight Pitch Gal Assa, Ph.D. Student, Technion, Israel Hadar Sivan, Ph.D. Student, Technion, Israel
17:00-18:00	Joint Project Brainstorming
18:00	Social Dinner

Thursday, April 20, 2023

	Room: Lecture Hall (HS1)
13:45-14:00	Registration
14:00-14:15	Opening Words Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze, Head of Operating Systems and Middleware Group and Speaker of the HPI Research School Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld, Head of Software Architecture Group and Speaker of the HPI Research School
14:15-14:45	PhD Elevator Pitches Alejandro Sierra, Conrad Lempert, Eva Krebs, Fabian Stolp, Jobin Wattasseril, Jorge CiprianSanchez, Justin Albert, Lukas Boehme, Lukas Rambold, Margarita Bugueno, Muhammad Abdullah, Sidratul Moontaha
14:45-15:30	Keynote Dr. Alexander Böhm, Principal Engineer, Google Building Database Management Systems for Modern Enterprise Applications Past, Present, and Future Challenges
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:20	Session 1 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schulte, Full Professor at Hamburg University of Technology, Head of the Institute for Data Engineering Federated Learning Prof. Lisa Seymour, University of Cape Town Reflections on IS, BPM, CITANDA and conceptualizing the African Context Jonas Cremerius, Ph.D. Student, HPI, Potsdam Change Patterns in Dynamic Event Attributes
17:20-17:50	Coffee Break
17:50-19:10	Session 2 Prof. Assaf Schuster, Professor of the Computer Science Department Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Unleashing Affordable Cloud Resources with SpotOS Dr. Belen Bermejo, University of the Balearic Islands Performance and Energy Trade-off in Server Consolidation Mbithe Nzomo, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town An Agent-Based Architecture for Sensor-Based Health Monitoring
19:10	Closing
19:30	Boat Trip

Friday, April 21, 2023

	Room: Lecture Hall (HS1)
9:00-9:30	Registration with Welcome Coffee
9:30-10:15	Keynote: "Highlights of HPI: A Retrospective" Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, Former President and CEO of HPI for Digital Engineering
10:15-11:30	Session 3 Prof. Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan, Leibniz University Hannover Example-Driven Data Cleaning Aikaterini Niklanovits, Ph.D. Student, HPI, Potsdam Algorithmic Results on Connected Graph Partitioning Problems Francois Meyer, University of Cape Town Machine Translation for the Nguni Languages of South Africa
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	Session 4 Dr. Fabio Niephaus, Principal Researcher, Oracle Labs Fast and Efficient Java Applications with GraalVM Native Image Dr. Max Plauth, System Engineer, UltiHash
13:00	Closing
14:30	Visit to Museum Barberini (pending confirmation)

The HPI Research Symposium

The HPI Research Schools for "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" (SSE) and "Data Science and Engineering" (DSE) are the two graduate schools of the Hasso Plattner Institute. The branches of the graduate schools are in Cape Town, Haifa and Nanjing. Students enjoy a great research environment and close mentorship by professors and postdocs.

The HPI Research School on Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (SSE)

The HPI SSE Research School has dedicated itself to the field of software engineering in the context of service-oriented systems. The design, analysis and implementation of service-oriented architectures poses numerous research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration.

Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a synthesis of best practices in object orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management, providing integration of business and IT concerns. The topics of the research school thus have a unique potential not only in terms of academic research but also in industrial applications.

The HPI Research School on Service-Oriented Systems Engineering, founded in 2005, is based on the model of the DFG (German Research Foundation) "Graduiertenkolleg". PhD students at the research school participate in joint activities such as lectures, seminars, winter schools and workshops.

The HPI Research School on Data Science and Engineering (DSE)

The 2019 newly established HPI research school on „Data Science and Engineering” unites PhD students in all areas of data-driven research and technology, including scalable storage, stream processing, data cleaning, machine learning and deep learning, text processing, data visualization and more. The participating researchers join forces whenever possible and apply their research to many different use cases across the interdisciplinary research groups.

The increasing abundance of data in science and in industry creates many challenges and opportunities. Data science has grown to be a foundational discipline in information technology, allowing new insights from data and creating ever more intelligent applications. Simultaneously, it is becoming increasingly difficult to collect, clean and deliver the vast amounts of data and apply and maintain complex data science processes. Targeting these challenges, the discipline of data engineering has become equally foundational.

The Members of the Research Schools

The professors of the HPI with their research groups are supporting pillars for the two HPI research schools. With their interdisciplinary structure, the research schools interconnect the individual research groups and foster close and fruitful collaborations.

Students enjoy an exceptional research environment, close mentorship by professors and postdocs of the research groups, interactions with their peers, enormous computing power in HPI’s data lab, and significant travel funding.

Please find the latest information about the PhD students of the HPI research schools, their research interests, joint projects, and events at

https://hpi.de/research-schools/hpi-sse.html

https://hpi.de/research-schools/hpi-dse.html