Prof. Jana Giceva Makreshanska is a Professor of Database Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), affiliated with the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology and the Department of Computer Science. Her research focuses on systems support for data management, leveraging modern hardware architectures including operating systems, compilers, and computer architecture. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (2017) and previously served as faculty at Imperial College London. Notable awards include the ERC Starting Grant (2024), VMware Early Career Faculty Award (2019), and ETH Medal (2018). Education: PhD in Computer Science, ETH Zurich (2017) Research roles at Microsoft Research and Oracle Labs Research Interests: Her work addresses holistic system design challenges in data management, including optimizing query processing for modern hardware, compiler integration, and emerging architectures like chiplets. She explores efficient data processing techniques for big data and transactional systems. Recent Contributions: Her recent work includes innovations in disaggregated systems (HotOS 2023), chiplet-aware scheduling (2025), and universal graph data structures (VLDB 2022). Her publications span topics like NVMe array optimization, FPGA-based partitioning, and hybrid OLTP/OLAP systems. Awards: ERC Starting Grant (2024) Best Paper Runner-Up at VLDB 2022 ACM SIGMOD Highlights Award (2023) Teaching & Service: Current courses include 'Cloud-Based Data Processing' and 'Data Processing on Modern Hardware'. She chairs diversity initiatives at SoCC 2023, serves on program committees for OSDI, VLDB, and SIGMOD, and leads gender equality efforts at TUM. Labs/Teams: Maintains the Lehrstuhl III (I3) database systems group at TUM, collaborating on projects like LakeVilla and ARCAS.










