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

1. 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}
   }
   

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2. 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}
   }
   

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3. 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}
   }
   

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4. 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}
   }
   

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5. 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}
   }
   

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