Portrait of Matthias Jasny

Matthias Jasny Dr.-Ing.

Senior Applied Scientist

Gray Systems Lab, Azure Data, Barcelona

Education

  1. 04/2021 - 04/2026

    Ph.D. in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

    • Focus: Scalable Data Management on Programmable Networks
    • Advisor: Prof. Carsten Binnig
  2. 10/2018 - 04/2021

    M.Sc. in Computer Science (GPA: 1.7), TU Darmstadt

    • Subsidiary subject: Electrical engineering and information technology
    • Thesis: In-Network Processing of Hot Transactional Tuples on Programmable Switches (Grade: 1.0) (Best Master's Thesis Award)
  3. 10/2015 - 10/2018

    B.Sc. in Computer Science (GPA: 1.6), TU Darmstadt

    • Thesis: A Transactional Database Kernel for Machine Learning (Grade: 1.0)

Conference Publications

  1. VLDB 2026

    BtrLog: Low-Latency Logging for Cloud Database Systems

  2. VLDB 2026

    Bespoke OLAP: Synthesizing Workload-Specific One-size-fits-one Database Engines

  3. VLDB 2026

    High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

  4. TCDE

    The Future Is Bespoke: Synthesizing One-Size-Fits-One DBMSs with LLM Coding Agents

  5. DaMon 2025

    A Wake-Up Call for Kernel-Bypass on Modern Hardware

  6. TODS 2025

    Synchronizing Disaggregated Data Structures with One-Sided RDMA: Pitfalls, Experiments and Design Guidelines

  7. Book Chapter

    Scalable Data Management on Next-Generation Data Center Networks

  8. DaMoN 2024

    Seamless: Transparent Storage Access Through Smart Switches

  9. SIGMOD 2024

    Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs

  10. VLDB 2023

    Databases on Modern Networks: A Decade of Research That Now Comes into Practice

  11. DaMoN 2023

    Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling

  12. Demo@VLDB 2022

    DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performace Database Workload Generator in Action

  13. SIGMOD 2022

    P4DB - The Case for In-Network OLTP

  14. SIGMOD 2021

    DFI - The Data Flow Interface for High-Speed Networks (Best Paper Award)

  15. SIGMOD 2020

    DB4ML - An In-Memory Database Kernel with ML Support

All publications can be found at DBLP

Work Experience

  1. 05/2026 - present

    Senior Applied Scientist, Gray Systems Lab, Azure Data, Barcelona, Spain

  2. 04/2021 - 04/2026

    Research Assistant, Data and AI Systems Lab, TU Darmstadt

  3. 06/2024 - 10/2024

    Research Intern, Gray Systems Lab, Azure Data, Redmond, USA

  4. 01/2019 - 09/2020

    Student Assistant, Data Management Lab, TU Darmstadt

    • Support in Teaching
    • Database Research (DB4ML)
    • Data Processing in High-speed Networks (DFI)
  5. 05/2018 - 02/2020

    Student Assistant, Distributed Systems Programming Lab, TU Darmstadt

    • In-Network Processing (Netronome SmartNIC)

Honors

  1. 04/2026

    Ph.D. with Highest Honors (summa cum laude), TU Darmstadt

    Awarded for an outstanding doctoral dissertation

  2. 01/2022

    Best Master's Thesis Award, TU Darmstadt

    Award for outstanding scientific achievements
    Gifted by: Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e.V.

  3. 06/2021

    SIGMOD 2021 Best Papers Award, ACM SIGMOD/PODS

    Award for most outstanding paper presented at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference
    More information: Conference web-page