Chair

Research Staff

Xiao Wang

Xiao Wang, M.Sc.

Researcher

Robin Janssen

Robin Janssen, M.Sc.

PhD Student

Compute Lab Manager (ZITI)

Undergraduate and Graduate Students (Bachelor/Master)

Andrej Meininger

Andrej Meininger

Master Research Assistant

Anusha Chattopadhyay

Anusha Chattopadhyay

Graduate Research Assistant

Dennis Jakob

Dennis Jakob

Bachelor Research Assistant

Dominik Gausepohl

Dominik Gausepohl

MScDACS Thesis

Fangling Du

Fangling Du

MScSC Thesis

Hao Zhang

Hao Zhang

MScSC Thesis

Ilya Belkin

Ilya Belkin

MScDACS Thesis

Jonathan Bernhard

Jonathan Bernhard

MScDACS Thesis

Jonathan Leis

Jonathan Leis

MScDACS Thesis

Leandro Borzyk

MScTI Thesis

Lukas Rapp

Lukas Rapp

MScDACS Thesis

Max Mielke

Master Research Assistant, MScTI Thesis

Maximilian Burr

Maximilian Burr

Master Research Assistant

Niklas Summ

Niklas Summ

Master Research Assistant, TA

Nils Kochendörfer

Nils Kochendörfer

MScTI Thesis

Paul Kupper

Paul Kupper

MScDACS Thesis

Philia Jankov

Philia Jankov

Master Research Assistant

Philipp Hematty

Philipp Hematty

MScTI Thesis

Shijie Sun

Shijie Sun

MScSC Thesis

Theo Stempel-Hauburger

Theo Stempel-Hauburger

MScDACS Thesis

Vimala Bauer

Vimala Bauer

TA

Visiting scientists and PhD students

  • Miguel Sánchez, M.Sc. (visiting PhD student), University Castilla-La Mancha), energy efficiency of interconnection networks, 06-08/2025
  • Joaquin Tarraga (visiting PhD student, University Castilla-La Mancha), analyzing intra-node traffic of LLMs, 05-07/2025
  • Juan José Garcia-Castro Crespo (visiting PhD student, University Castilla-La Mancha), exploring the hardware costs of dynamic network reconfiguration, 09/2020-02/2021
  • Kazem Shekofteh (visiting PhD student, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran), 11/2016-05/2017
  • Francisco Andujar (visiting PhD student, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2014)
  • Pedro Garcia (visiting scientist, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2013)
  • Jesus Escudero Sahuquillo (visiting scientist, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2012)

Internships and research stays of group members

  • Bernhard Klein, Materials Center Leoben, Graz, Austria, 10-12/2021
  • Hendrik Borras, XILINX Research, Dublin, Ireland, 05-12/2021 (sponsored)
  • Bernhard Klein, Materials Center Leoben, Leoben, Austria, 09-10/2019
  • Felix Zahn, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 01-02/2017 (sponsored)
  • Holger Fröning, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA, US, 05-10/2016 (sponsored)
  • Benjamin Klenk, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA, US, 02-07/2016 (sponsored)
  • Felix Zahn, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 10/2015 (sponsored)
  • Holger Fröning, Technical University of Graz, Austria, 03/2015 (sponsored)
  • Benjamin Klenk, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, CA, US, 03-06/2015 (sponsored)
  • Alexander Matz, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, US, 01-05/2015 (sponsored)

Former members & visiting students (date of leave/visit)

(MScDACS - Master of Data and Computer Science, MScTI - Master Computer Engineering, MScSC - Master Scientific Computing, MScP - Master Physics, BScI - Bachelor Computer Science, BScP - Bachelor Physics)

  • Jiufeng Li (MScDACS student, 2025)
  • Constantin Nicolai (MScTI student, 2025)
  • Yong Wu (MScDACS student, 2025)
  • Sergej Bespalov (MScTI student, 2025)
  • Christian Simonides (MScDACS student, 2025)
  • Alper Dağgez (MScDACS student, 2025)
  • Tamara Bucher (MScTI student, 2025)
  • Dr. Vahdaneh Kiani (PhD student, defended 01/2025, leaving to SAP)
  • Prakriti Jain (MScDACS student, 2025)
  • Congcong Xu (MScSC student, 2024)
  • Yi Zhang (external MScSC student, Siemens, 2024)
  • Hadi Ghani (external MScTI student, Applied University Munich, 2024)
  • Marco Lorenz (external BScI student, San Francisco State University, 2024)
  • Dr. Jonas Dann (PhD student, defended 01/2024, first appointment at ETH Zürich)
  • Falk Selker (MScTI student & research assistant, 2023, leaving to NEClabs)
  • Lisa Kuhn (MScDACS student, 2023)
  • Eric Kern (MScTI student, 2023, first appointment at Carl Zeiss)
  • Christian Alles (MScTI student, 2023, first appointment at John Deere)
  • Yannick Emonds (leaving to Fraunhofer)
  • Jonathan Bernhard (BScI student, 03/2023)
  • Dr. Dennis Rieber (PhD student, defended 03/2023, first appointment at Bosch)
  • Constantin Nicolai (BScP student, 05/2022)
  • Torben Krieger (MScDACS student, 12/2022, first appointment at SAP)
  • Dr. Lorenz Braun (PhD student, defended 09/2024, first appointment at Bosch)
  • Dr. Laura Promberger (PhD student, defended 08/2022, first appointment at CERN)
  • Tobias Richstein (MScDACS student, 2022, first appointment at SAP)
  • Dr. Günther Schindler (Post-Doc and PhD student, defended 06/2021, first appointment at SAP, 01/2022)
  • Royden Wagner (MScTI student, 2021, leaving as PhD candidate to Bioquant, Heidelberg University)
  • Benjamin Maier (MSc student, 2021)
  • Chenyang Zhu (MSc student, 2021)
  • Florian Nowak (BScI student, 2021)
  • Dr. Felix Zahn (PhD student, defended 11/2020, first appointment at CERN, 09/2020)
  • Florian Brunner (MSc student, 2021)
  • Georg Weisert (BScI student, 2020)
  • Raphael Kirchholtes (BScI student, 2020)
  • Otto von Zastrow-Marcks (BScI student, 2020)
  • Kevin Stehle (MScTI student, leaving as PhD candidate to CERN, 03/2020)
  • Paul Bethge (MScTI student, 02/2020)
  • Dilan Canpolat (MSc student, 01/2020)
  • Berra Sayin (visiting student, Sabancı University, Turkey, 05-08/2019)
  • Shreyas Ravishankar (visiting student, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS Pilani), India, 05-08/2019)
  • Dr. Alexander Matz (PhD student, defended 11/2020, first appointment at IMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 06/2019)
  • Alejandro Santos (PhD student, 2019)
  • David Marquant (MSc student, 2019), first appointment at HD Vision Systems GmbH
  • Michael Harbarth (MSc student, 2019)
  • Himanshu Tiwari (MSc student, 2018)
  • Antsa Andriamboavonjy (MSc student, 2018), first appointment at SAP (Walldorf, Germany)
  • Sven Nobis (MSc student, 2018)
  • Andreas Melzer (MSc student, 2018), first appointment at SAP (Walldorf, Germany)
  • Armin Schäffer (MSc student, 2018), first appointment at HMS Analytical Software (Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Klaus Neumann (MSc student, 2018)
  • Dennis Rieber (MSc student, 2017), first appointment at Robert Bosch GmbH (Renningen, Germany)
  • Dr. Benjamin Klenk, (PhD student, 2017), first appointment at NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara (US)
  • Steffen Lammel (MSc student and research assistant, 2017), first appointment at SAP (Walldorf, Germany)
  • Julian Schwing (MSc student, 2017), first appointment at SAP (Walldorf, Germany)
  • Artur Kühlwein (MSc student, 2017)
  • Dr. Tommaso Colombo (PhD student, 2016), first appointment at CERN
  • Dominik Sterk, (MSc student, 2016)
  • Christoph Klein, (MSc student, 2016), first appointment as PhD student at Heidelberg University
  • Daniel Schlegel (MSc student, 2016), first appointment at EVS Broadcast Equipment
  • Benjamin Baumann (MSc student, 2016)
  • Eugen Rusakov (MSc student, 2016), first appointment as PhD student at TU Dortmund
  • Julian Romera (MSc student, 2016)
  • Prof. Dr. Lena Oden (PhD, defended 04/2015), first appointment at Postdoc at Argonne National Labs, Chicago, IL, US.
  • Hector Montaner (PhD student, defended 04/2013 with highest degrees, Technical University of Valencia, Spain, 2013)
  • Manuel Dewald (MSc student, 2013), first appointment at SAP
  • Elena Kuss (MSc student, 2012), first appointment as PhD student at University of Mannheim