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Univ. Prof. Dr. Ivona Brandić Head of the Research Group on High Performance Computing Systems Institute of Information Systems Engineering TU Wien address: Favoritenstr. 9-11 2nd floor Room Nr. HE0224 1040 Vienna Austria email: ivona[at]ec.tuwien.ac.at phone: +43 (1) 58801 188761 department secretary: +43 (1) 58801 18808 fax: +43 (1) 58801 18899 consultation hour: e-mail appointment

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Group

FOSII team 2010

Haley team 2013

Rucon team 2017

HPC research group 2021	HPC research group 2023	HPC research group 2024
Group Website: http://hpc.ec.tuwien.ac.at/

My research team:

• Dr. Shashikant Shankar Ilager, post doc
• Dr. Vincenzo de Maio, post doc (FFG research fellow, HPQC Project)
• Alessandro Tundo, post doc
• Sabtain Ahmad, FWF/ChistERA PhD student
• Josip Zilic, Rucon, Triton FWF PhD student
• Meerzhan Kanatbekova, PhD Student, HPQC FFG, Triton FWF
• Daniel Hofstätter, Systems engineer / master student
• Jakob Fahringer, Systems engineer / master student
• Dominik Jandl, Tutor VU Data Intensive Computing (master student)
• Sabrina Herbst, PhD student (Triton FWF), currently internship at ETH Zürich
• Alina-Ioana Baban, Team Assistant, HPQC FFG
• Paul Joe Maliakel, Systems engineer / master student (Triton FWF)
• Daniel May, master student
• Thomas Ziller, master student
• Arxhend Jetullahu, visiting scientist, UBT, Kosovo.

Former research fellows:

• Alexander Falzberger, Former Master student, now at McKinsey
• Ivan Lujic, FWF PhD student, now at Ericsson, Croatia.
• Samuel Carlos De Lima Dias, Systems engineer / master student
• Dr. Rafael B. Uriarte (Marie Curie fellow), now at Max Planck, Florence, Italy
• Dr. Atakan Aral (FWF research fellow), now Assistant Professor at Umea University, Sweden

Visiting Phd students:

• 2023: Marco Mobilio visiting scientist (Ph.D. student at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• 2023: Alessio Catalfamo, visiting scientist (Ph.D. student at University of Messina, Italy)
• 2017: Vincenzo Scoca, IMT Lucca, Italy, joint papers: CLOSER 2018, best student paper award
• 2016: Bogdan-Constantin Irimie, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Romania
• 2014: Foued Jrad, Steinbuch Centre for Computing, KIT, Germany, joint papers: FGCS 2015, CLOSER 2014, GECON 2014
• 2013: Andres Garcia Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, joint papers: JSS 2016, COMPSAC 2014

Past PhD students:

• Ivan Lujic, Foundations for Sustainable and Trustworthy Edge Data Analytics, now at Ericsson, Croatia.
• Dražen Lučanin, Energy Efficient Cloud Control and Pricing in Geographically Distributed Data Centers, finished 2016, now independent consultant, Vienna, Austria.
• Toni Mastelić, Scalable Monitoring for Energy Efficient Cloud Computing Environments, finished 2016, now at Ericsson NT, Split, Croatia.
• Soodeh Farokhi, Formal Models for Cloud Verification, finished 2016
• Ivan Bresković, Market Models for Cloud Computing, finished 2013, now Data Analyst at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Efficient SLA Management in Self-adaptable Clouds, finished 2012, now Assistant Professor at University College Cork, Ireland.
• Michael Maurer, Knowledge Management in Self-adaptable Clouds, finished 2012, now founder and owner esquirrel.at

PhD Thesis Reviewer/Opponent/Committee Member:

• Mael Madon, University of Toulouse, 2024.
• Zeinab Bakhshi, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden, 2023.
• Albin Heimerson, Lund University, Sweden, 2023.
• Giacomo Lanciano, University of Pisa, 2023.
• Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru, Rennes, Inria, CNRS, Sep 2021.
• Ali Jawad Fahs, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, Dec 2020.
• Rachel Shaw, National University of Galway, Ireland Oct. 2020.
• Gustavo Rostirolla, University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Nov. 2019.
• Xuezhi Zeng, Australian National University, Nov. 2019
• Thomas Renner, TU Berlin, Germany, October 2018.
• Mareike Höger, TU Berlin, Germany, October 2018.
• Hamid Faragardi, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden, March 2018.
• Seyed-Saeid Masoumzadeh, Vienna University (reviewer)
• Hamid Reza Faragardi, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden (opponent)
• Shyam S. Wagle, University of Bologna, Italy (reviewer)
• Andrea Moricetta, IMT Lucca, Italy (reviewer)
• Werner Mach, Cloud Service Negotiations, University of Vienna (reviewer)
• Wubin Le, Algorithms and Systems for Virtual Machine Scheduling in Cloud Infrastructures, Umeå University, Sweden (examiner).
• Andres Garcia Garcia, SLA-Driven Cloud Computing Domain Representation and Management, Universitat Politècnica de València (examiner)
• Foued Jrad, SLA brokering in Multi Clouds, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (examiner)
• Miao Wang, Monitoring Large-Scale Cloud Computing Applications, University College Dublin (examiner)
• Enda Barrett, A Learning Architecture to Support Autonomous Resource Scheduling and Allocation in the Cloud, NUI, Galway, Ireland (examiner)
• Aida Čaušević, Formal Approaches for Behavioral Modeling and Analysis of Design-time Services and Service Negotiation, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden (examiner)
• Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Automated Emulation of Distributed Systems through System Management and Virtualization. Pontifcia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; now at University of Melbourne (examiner)

Master students:

• Bernhard Schwarz, Self-Elective Model Branching in Online Machine Learning on the Edge March 2021
• Manuel Lindner, Priority Based Mobile Edge Cloud Offloading (PBMECO) algorithm for latency sensitive applications, January 2021
• Ivan Bodrozic, Near Real Time Object Detection in Resource Constrained Edge Environments (ERASMUS/University of Split) 2020.
• Josip Lasic, Communication Models for Edge and 5G (ERASMUS/University of Zagreb) 2020.
• Michael Eder, Failure Tolerance for Edge Offloading based on Model Checking, 2020.
• Oliver Schauermüller, Quality of Service for cloud services using control theory, 2019.
• Florian Rohrer, Multi-objective User and Virtual Machine Assignment Using Biogeography- Based Optimization, 2018.
• Andreas Egger, Kosteneffizientes Ressourcenmanagement in verteilten Cloud Datenzentren.
• Ivan Lujic, Analysis of unevenly spaces time-series data in highly distributed and unreliable networks.
• Jasmina Jašarević: Wait Time: Performance Metric as a result of resource provisioning in cloud environments. University of Split, Croatia, Sep. 2014. (co-advisor)
• Dmytro Grygorenko. Cost-based Decision Making in Cloud Environments using Bayesian Networks. finished August 2014.
• Kateryna Zaslavska. Performance Analysis of big Data Tools based on Benchmarks for Store Sales Forecasting. finished August 2014.
• Peter Patonei, Load Balancing by Using Time Series Forecasting on Big Data, finished August 2014
• Martin Jenny, Distributed Power Quality Monitoring in the Cloud, ongoing.
• Sarita Paudel, Evaluating Software Development Standards for Critical Infrastructure IT in the Cloud. in collaboration with Austrian Institute of Technology. finished August 2014
• Martin Sölkner. Energie Effizienter Elastizitätsmanager für Clouds. finished 2013.
• Ivan Jukić, Profiliranje programa u svrhu procjene potrošnje računalskih resursa, Sveučiliste u Splitu, Croatia, 2013.
• Toni Mastelić. Service Provisioning Management via Application Monitoring in Cloud Environment. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia. (co-advisor)
• Mario Volf. Upravljanje znanjem u samoprilagodljivim cloud sustavima. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia, finished Oct. 2010. (co-advisor)
• Alexander Albl, Ein schlankes Workflow-Tool fuer Bioinformatik, TU Vienna, in collaboration with BOKU Wien, Sep. 2010.
• Gabriel Kittel, Survey and Taxonomy of Autonomic Grid and Cloud Computing, finished 2011.
• Dejan Mušić, VieSLAF: Increasing the Versatility of Grid QoS by applying SLA-Mapping Techniques, TU Vienna, 2009.