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

JMU Chief Information Security Officer CISO: Office Member
SPEC Research Group, Cloud Working Group, Elected Co-Chair
SPEC Research Group: Elected Steering Committee Member (2022)
ICPE Steering Committee: Publicity & Administration Assistant
IEEE Professional Member
ACM Professional Member
GI Professional Member

Conference and Workshop Organisation

ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Evaluation (ICPE) 2022, PC co-chair
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Evaluation (ICPE) 2020, as PC member
12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2019) as PC member
19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019) as PC member
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Evaluation (ICPE) 2019, Artifact Evaluation as PC member
ACM/SPEC ICPE 2019, Publicity co-chair
11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2018) as PC member
ACM/SPECInternational Conference on Performance Evaluation (ICPE) 2018, Artifact Evaluation as PC member
IEEE ICAC 2016, Publicity co-chair
3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf) @ ICPE2020 as chair
WOSP-C 2020: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Large Scale Performance (WOSP-C 2020) @ ICPE2020 as PC member
2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf) @ ICAC 2019 as chair
1st Joint International Workshop on Models@run.time and Self-aware Computing Systems (MRT-SeAC) @ ICAC 2018 as chair
1st Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC) @ ICAC 2017 as chair
1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf) @ ICPE 2018 as chair
4th International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps (QUDOS 2018) as PC member

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