Dr. Fabian Peternek

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford

Contact: f [dot] peternek [at] fapet [dot] de

Research: I work in the factorised database group on compression and factorisation of relations in a relational database management system. I am generally interested in compression and succinct data structures.

Hobbies: Photography (portfolio), hiking/camping, cooking, and a variety of sports

Publications

S. Maneth, F. Peternek: Grammar-based graph compresssion Inf. Syst. 76: 19-45 (2018)
S. Maneth, F. Peternek: Constant Delay Traversal of Compressed Graphs DCC 2018: 32-41
S. Maneth, F. Peternek: Compressing Graphs by Grammars. ICDE 2016: 109-120
M. Lohrey, S. Maneth, F. Peternek: Compressed Tree Canonization. ICALP (2) 2015: 337-349

Education

PhD in Informatics
Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Maneth

2014 – 2018
University of Edinburgh

Master of Science (MSc.) in Computer Science
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwentick

2010 – 2013
TU Dortmund University

Semester abroad

Fall 2011
University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Computer Science

2007 – 2010
TU Dortmund University

Teaching

In Oxford:

Tutor

Databases (Michealmas Term 2018)

In Edinburgh:

Teaching Assistant

Applied Databases (2016/17)
Inf 1: Data and Analysis (2015/16)

Tutor

Inf 1: Data and Analysis (2015/16)
Inf 2a: Processing Formal and Natural Languages (2014/15)

Marker

Applied Databases (2016/17 and 2015/16)
Inf 1: Data and Analysis (2015/16)
Data Integration and Exchange (2013/14)

At TU Dortmund University

Tutor

Foundations of Theoretical Computer Science (Summer 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)
Representation, Processing, and Discovery of Knowledge (Winter 2012/13)
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Programming 1 (Winter 2010/11, 2009/10, 2008/09)
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Programming 2 (Summer 2009)

Activities

Collector for the report of Dagstuhl seminar 16431
Member of the organizing committee for BICOD 2015