Nikolas Herbst
Dr. rer. nat. Nikolas Herbst
Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik II)
Department of Computer Science
University of Würzburg
Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg
Informatikgebäude, 1.OG, Room A111
Phone: +49 (931) 31 83059
Email: nikolas.herbst∂uni-wuerzburg.de
Former Homepage DESCARTES Research Group
Selected Publications:
List of all publications: Nikolas Herbst
Research Interests
Main Research Topics:
- Software Performance Engineering
- High-Performance Data Processing
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Autonomic and Self-Aware Computing
- Benchmarking
- Elasticity in Clouds
- Run-Time Performance and Resource Management
Technology domains:
- Cloud Computing
- Serverless Computing and Mirco-Services
- Distributed Component-based Systems
- Virtualization
Awards
- 10 Year Most Impact Paper Award awarded at ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering 2023, Coimbra, April, 2023.
- SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) for the doctoral dissertation titled “Methods and Benchmarks for Auto-Scaling Mechanisms in Elastic Cloud Environments” supervised by Samuel Kounev, April, 2019.
- SPECtacular Award for Technical Leadership: Vice-Chair of RG Cloud, Lead of successful publication activities, RG Newsletter Editor, Awarded by the SPEC President David Reiner (AMD) on April 12, 2018 at the ACM/SPEC ICPE conference banquet in Berlin, Germany.
- IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the academic year 2014/15, Würzburg, May 2014
- FZI Best Diploma Thesis Prize, sponsored by FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, July 2013
- IBM System z Application Award sponsored by IBM Germany, Karlsruhe, Oktober 2011
Invited Talks
- How we built a scalable micro-service application - The Tea Store. Keynote Talk at the ScrumScale workshop on invitation by SINTEF, Oslo, Norway, July 5, 2018 [slides]
- Benchmarking Elasticity of Virtualized Resources, Invited Talk, SPEC Research Group Cloud, April 10, 2012
- Workload Classification and Forecasting, Invited Talk, KoSSE-Syposium Application Performance Management, Kiel, November 29/30, 2012
Functions and Memberships
Conference and Workshop Organisation
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Tools
- CHAMELEON Hybrid, Proactive Auto-Scaler
- TELESCOPE Hybrid Forecaster for Seasonal Time Series
- BUNGEE IaaS Could Elasticity Benchmarking Framework
- LIMBO Load Intensity Modeling Framework
- WCF Workload Cassification & Forecasting Tool
Teaching
Starting in winter term 2017/18, I am reading the lecture "Operating Systems", and starting in summer term 2018, the lecture "Performance Engineering & Benchmarking of Computersystems".
Starting in summer term 2018, I am reading the new master's lecture "Self-Aware Computing" together with Dr. Krupitzer.
From summer term 2014 to summer term 2017, I was coordinating the exercises on the master's lecture "Performance Engineering & Benchmarking of Computersystems" and the bachelor's lecture "Operating Systems".
I am involved in supervising students during multiple practical courses and seminars since summer term 2012.
Selected Reviewer Activities
Journals:
- Nature Scientific Reports
- Communications of the ACM
- ACM Computing Surveys (CS)
- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS)
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
- WILEY Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)
- WILEY Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
- IEEE Cloud Computing (CC)
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
- Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
- Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
Conferences:
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)
- IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
- IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
- IEEE/USENIX/SPEC International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
- ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
- ACM SIGSOFT International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA)
- European Workshop on Performance Engineering (EPEW)
- European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC)
Curriculum Vitae / Resume
July 2018 - now April 2014 - July 2018 | Post-doctoral research group leader at the Chair of Software Engineering (Informatik II) headed by Prof. Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg Doctoral reseacher at the Chair of Software-Engineering (Informatik II) headed by Prof. Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg |
Jan 2013 - June 2013 | FZI Research Center for Information Technology scholarship holder |
Oct 2012 - March 2014 | Doctoral reseacher and member of the Descartes Research Group (funded by the Emmy Noether Programme) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, |
Sep 2006 - Sep 2012 | Master of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
Apr 2008 - Apr 2012 | IT responsible at Hotel Erbprinz, Ettlingen |
Apr 2011 - May 2012 | Research Assistant at the Informatics Innovation Center (Cooperation of IBM and KIT) |
Aug 2008 - Sep 2008 | Internship at Avaloq Evolution AG, Zurich |
Apr 2007 | Internship at Siemens AG, Postal Automation, Konstanz |
Aug 2006 | Abitur at the Heinrich-Suso Gymnasium, Konstanz |
Last Update: May, 2023