Master Thesis (ongoing)

After finishing my coursework at ETH Zürich, I joined Prof. Torsten Hoefler’s SPCL for my master’s thesis, under the supervision of Maciej Besta and Marcin Copik. We aim to design, implement, and benchmark a higher-order graph database engine, owing to surging interest in AI and other processing systems working on higher-order graph-structured data. After spending a good few weeks studying the theory behind different higher-order graph structures, graph databases, graph neural networks, and analytics, I worked on plain graph embeddings for higher-order graphs and performance models under various workloads, graph structures, and database storage formats. Then, we set out to implement a fully functioning database with OLTP capabilities on top of Neo4j. In the future, we plan on implementing a few OLAP workloads and finally benchmarking. I look forward to achieving great results!