Senior Researcher

Room	D304
Address	Bd de Pérolles 90 1700 Fribourg Switzerland
E-Mail	lernera[_AT_]exascale[_DOT_]info
Phone	+41 26 300 8339
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography

Alberto Lerner

Bio and Interests

I am a Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland at the eXascale Infolab. Previously, I spent some time in research groups at IBM Research (both at T.J. Watson and Almaden), and in the industry, at Google and MongoDB – and some start-ups. I got my Ph.D. in 2003 at Ecole Normale Superieure de Telecomunications at Paris (now Paris Tech) having done the research work connected to my Thesis both at INRIA/Rocquencourt and at New York University.

My research interests revolve around non-conventional database systems. I mean non-conventional in three different aspects.

Exploring close couplings with hardware or software/hardware co-design geared toward performance.
Extending data models beyond relational data (e.g., ordered data in general)
Supporting increasingly larger data sets via distributed computing.

Recent Publications

Alberto Lerner, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Carsten Binnig, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15:3682–85, 2022. Bibtex PDF
DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action

Alberto Lerner, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Carsten Binnig, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “DBMS Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15:3682–85, 2022.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2022vldb,
  author = {Lerner, Alberto and Jasny, Matthias and Jepsen, Theo and Binnig, Carsten and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {{DBMS} Annihilator: A High-Performance Database Workload Generator in Action},
  doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554874},
  volume = {15},
  number = {12},
  pages = {3682--3685},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/p2388-lerner.pdf}
}
```
×

M. Tamer Özsu, Alberto Lerner, and Tianzheng Wang. “Reminiscences on Influential Papers.” SIGMOD Record 51, no. 2 (2022): 44–46. Bibtex PDF

Reminiscences on Influential Papers

M. Tamer Özsu, Alberto Lerner, and Tianzheng Wang. “Reminiscences on Influential Papers.” SIGMOD Record 51, no. 2 (2022): 44–46.

@article{lerner2022sigmodrecord,
  author = {Özsu, M. Tamer and Lerner, Alberto and Wang, Tianzheng},
  title = {Reminiscences on Influential Papers},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {{SIGMOD} Record},
  volume = {51},
  number = {2},
  pages = {44--46},
  url = {https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/2206/pdfs/07_Reminiscences_Ozsu.pdf}
}

Sangjin Lee, Alberto Lerner, André Ryser, Kibin Park, Chanyoung Jeon, Jinsub Park, Yong Ho Song, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication.” Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’22). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. Bibtex PDF
X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication

Sangjin Lee, Alberto Lerner, André Ryser, Kibin Park, Chanyoung Jeon, Jinsub Park, Yong Ho Song, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “X-SSD: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication.” Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’22). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022.
```
@inproceedgins{lee2022sigmod,
  author = {Lee, Sangjin and Lerner, Alberto and Ryser, Andr{\'e} and Park, Kibin and Jeon, Chanyoung and Park, Jinsub and Song, Yong Ho and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {{X-SSD}: A Storage System with Native Support for Database Logging and Replication},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’22)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lee2022sigmod.pdf},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3514221.3526188},
  isbn = {9781450392495},
  pages = {988–1002},
  numpages = {15}
}
```
×
André Ryser, Alberto Lerner, Alex Forencich, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems.” In CIDR 2022, 12th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2022. Bibtex PDF
D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems

André Ryser, Alberto Lerner, Alex Forencich, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “D-RDMA: Bringing Zero-Copy RDMA to Database Systems.” In CIDR 2022, 12th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2022.
```
@inproceedings{ryser2022cidr,
  author = {Ryser, Andr{\'e} and Lerner, Alberto and Forencich, Alex and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {{D-RDMA}: Bringing Zero-Copy {RDMA} to Database Systems},
  booktitle = {{CIDR} 2022, 12th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/ryser22cidr.pdf}
}
```
×
Alberto Lerner, and Philippe Bonnet. “Not Your Grandpa’s SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices.” In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’21), 2021. Bibtex Slides PDF
Not your Grandpa’s SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices

Alberto Lerner, and Philippe Bonnet. “Not Your Grandpa’s SSD: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices.” In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’21), 2021.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2021sigmod,
  title = {Not your Grandpa’s {SSD}: The Era of Co-Designed Storage Devices},
  author = {Lerner, Alberto and Bonnet, Philippe},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ’21)},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner2021sigmod.pdf},
  note = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner2021sigmod-slides.pdf}
}
```
×
Theo Jepsen, Alberto Lerner, Fernando Pedone, Robert Soulé, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 14:1626–39, 2021. Bibtex PDF
In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging

Theo Jepsen, Alberto Lerner, Fernando Pedone, Robert Soulé, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 14:1626–39, 2021.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2021vldb,
  title = {In-Network Support for Transaction Triaging},
  author = {Jepsen, Theo and Lerner, Alberto and Pedone, Fernando and Soul{\'e}, Robert and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
  volume = {14},
  number = {9},
  pages = {1626-1639},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner2021vldb.pdf}
}
```
×
Nadeen Gebara, Alberto Lerner, Mingran Yang, Minlan Yu, Paolo Costa, and Manya Ghobadi. “Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches.” In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets20, 2020. Bibtex PDF
Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches

Nadeen Gebara, Alberto Lerner, Mingran Yang, Minlan Yu, Paolo Costa, and Manya Ghobadi. “Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches.” In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets20, 2020.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2020hotnets,
  title = {Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches},
  author = {Gebara, Nadeen and Lerner, Alberto and Yang, Mingran and Yu, Minlan and Costa, Paolo and Ghobadi, Manya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, {HotNets20}},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner2020hotnets.pdf}
}
```
×
Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, André Ryser, Sangjin Lee, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Networking and Storage: The Next Computing Elements in Exascale Systems?.” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 2020): 60–71. Bibtex PDF
Networking and Storage: The Next Computing Elements in Exascale Systems?

Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, André Ryser, Sangjin Lee, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Networking and Storage: The Next Computing Elements in Exascale Systems?.” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 2020): 60–71.
```
@article{lerner20debull,
  author = {Lerner, Alberto and Hussein, Rana and Ryser, Andr{\'e} and Lee, Sangjin and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {Networking and Storage: The Next Computing Elements in Exascale Systems?},
  journal = {{IEEE} Data Engineering Bulletin},
  issue_date = {March 2020},
  volume = {43},
  number = {1},
  month = mar,
  year = {2020},
  pages = {60--71},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner20debull.pdf}
}
```
×
Mourad Khayati, Alberto Lerner, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 13, 2020. Bibtex PDF Code Award
Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series

Mourad Khayati, Alberto Lerner, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 13, 2020.
```
@inproceedings{khayati2020vldb,
  author = {Khayati, Mourad and Lerner, Alberto and Tymchenko, Zakhar and Cudr{\'{e}}{-}Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
  volume = {13},
  number = {5},
  year = {2020},
  code = {https://github.com/eXascaleInfolab/bench-vldb20},
  url = {http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p768-khayati.pdf},
  award = {https://vldb2020.org/vldb-2020-awards.html#most-reproducible-paper-award}
}
```
×
Alberto Lerner, Jaewook Kwak, Sangjin Lee, Kibin Park, Yong Ho Song, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives.” In CIDR 2020, 10th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2020. Bibtex PDF
It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives

Alberto Lerner, Jaewook Kwak, Sangjin Lee, Kibin Park, Yong Ho Song, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives.” In CIDR 2020, 10th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2020.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2020cidr,
  author = {Lerner, Alberto and Kwak, Jaewook and Lee, Sangjin and Park, Kibin and Song, Yong Ho and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives},
  booktitle = {{CIDR} 2020, 10th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner20cidr.pdf}
}
```
×
Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “The Case For Network Accelerated Query Processing.” In CIDR 2019, 9th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2019. Bibtex PDF
The Case For Network Accelerated Query Processing

Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “The Case For Network Accelerated Query Processing.” In CIDR 2019, 9th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2019.
```
@inproceedings{lerner2019cidr,
  author = {Lerner, Alberto and Hussein, Rana and Cudr{\'e}-Mauroux, Philippe},
  title = {The Case For Network Accelerated Query Processing},
  booktitle = {{CIDR} 2019, 9th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://exascale.info/assets/pdf/lerner19cidr.pdf}
}
```
×

Recent Professional Activities

2023 Program Committee: ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE, USENIX ATC
2022 Program Committee: USENIX ATC
2020 Organizer: CUSO Winter School
2017 Program Committee: ACM SIGMOD
2016 Program Committee: ACM SIGMOD
2015 Program Committee: VLDB