HPC Research Group

Ivona Brandić

Ivona Brandic is a Professor at TU Wien. In 2015 she was awarded FWF START prize, the highest Austrian award for young researchers. She received her PhD degree in 2007 from TU Wien. In 2011 she received the Distinguished Young Scientist Award from TU Wien for her project on the Holistic Energy Efficient Hybrid Clouds. Her main research interests are cloud computing, large scale distributed systems, energy efficiency, QoS and autonomic computing.

Vincenzo De Maio

Vincenzo De Maio received his PhD in 2016 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research in the area of parallel and distributed systems comprises energy-aware Cloud computing and scheduling. Since 2017, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering of the TU Wien. He authored different conference and journal publications on the topic of energy efficiency and modeling for Cloud and Edge computing.

Shashikant Ilager

Shashikant Ilager is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TU Wien. He received his PhD at CLOUDS Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include distributed systems and cloud computing. He is currently working on resource management techniques and efficient and sustainable edge Intelligence.

Sabtain Ahmad

Sabtain Ahmad is a PhD student at TU Wien, Austria. He received his master’s degree in Computer Science in 2020 from The Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His main research interests include IoT-driven artificial intelligence and applying machine learning for near real-time decision making processes.

Josip Žilić

Josip Zilic is a PhD student at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering of TU Wien, Austria. He received his master’s degree in Computer Science in 2015 from The University of Split, Croatia. His main research interests include formal verification and energy efficiency of the edge offloading decisions.

Daniel Hofstätter

Daniel Hofstätter is a M.Sc. student at TU Wien, Austria, and a collaborator in the HPC Research Group. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2021 from TU Wien, Austria. His main research interests include evidential deep learning, analysis of energy signature curves and energy efficiency of edge nodes.

Meerzhan Kanatbekova

Meerzhan Kanatbekova is a PhD student at the HPC Group at TU Wien, Austria. She received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 2018 from Pamukkale University, Turkey and her Master's degree in 2022 from TU Wien. Her research interests include Mathematical Modelling, Quantum Computing for Scientific Applications, and Machine Learning.

Sabrina Herbst

Sabrina Herbst is a PhD student at TU Wien, and a Project Assistant (Prae-Doc, FWF) at the HPC Research Group. She received her master's degree in Data Science in 2023, and her bachelor's degree in Business Informatics in 2021 from TU Wien as well. Her main research interest is Quantum Computing, specifically, Machine Learning, Algorithms and HPC integration.

Alessandro Tundo

Alessandro Tundo is a PreDoc Researcher and a former visiting researcher from September 2022. He is Ph.D. candidate at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He holds a Master Degree in Computer Science received from the same university in 2018. His research interests include cloud and fog computing, distributed systems monitoring and software architectures.

Paul Joe Maliakel

Paul Joe Maliakel is a M.Sc. student at TU Wien, Austria, and a collaborator in the HPC Research Group. He received his bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in Computer Science & engineering in 2018 from the Cochin university of science & Technology, India. His main research interests include Machine learning, and Federated learning in edge devices.

Jakob Fahringer

Jakob Fahringer is a Medical Informatics M.Sc. student at TU Wien, Austria, and a collaborator in the HPC Research Group. His research specializes in decentralized monitoring tools for IoT and Edge devices. His newest project deals with health monitoring, using medical smart sensors in an IoT-Edge environment.

Alina Baban

Daniel May

Daniel May completed his Bachelor in Software Engineering in 2021 and received the Bachelor with Honors award in 2022. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Business Informatics at TU Wien. His research focuses on sustainability and usefullness of AI models in the context of Edge Computing.