Roman Heinrich

About Me

I am a motivated and results‑driven Ph.D. candidate at DFKI and TU Darmstadt, conducting research on enhancing modern data systems with AI & ML in the Systems Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig. I hold a Master’s degree in Intelligent Systems from Bielefeld University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from TH OWL

Research Interests

My research lies in learned database components, learned cost models for databases and stream processing systems and operator placement.

• Data Systems: Distributed Stream Processing Systems (Storm, Flink), Database Systems, PostgreSQL, Cost Estimation, Performance Prediction
• Machine Learning: Zero-Shot learning, Graph Neural Networks, Deep Graph Learning

Publications