Carsten Binnig

Carsten Binnig is a researcher affiliated with TU Darmstadt, Germany, focusing on database systems, distributed computing, and machine learning integration. His work spans high-performance data management, query optimization, and hardware-software co-design for modern networks. He holds a PhD from Heidelberg University (2008) and has contributed extensively to conferences like SIGMOD, VLDB, and CIDR. His research emphasizes scalable OLTP/OLAP systems, secure cloud DBMSs, and leveraging GPUs/accelerators for database operations. Notable projects include GOLAP (GPU-accelerated OLAP), ScaleStore (storage engine using NVMe/RDMA), and DBMS Annihilator (workload generator). He co-leads initiatives on testing database systems (DBTest workshop) and benchmarks for shared databases.