Prof. Dr. Jana Giceva Makreshanska

Adresse: Technische Universität München
Institut für Informatik – Lehrstuhl III (I3)
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching
Raum: 02.11.043
Telefon: +49 (0)89 / 289-17286
E-Mail: jana.giceva@in.tum.de
Bürozeit: Termine nach Vereinbarung

Research Interests and Bio

Prof. Giceva's research interests are in systems support for data management to enable efficient use of modern and future hardware. She works at the intersection of systems, data management, compilers, and computer architecture. Her research often adopts a holistic approach to address the system's challenges imposed both by emerging computing platforms and by the need to efficiently process and analyze data collected at unprecedented rates.

Before joining TUM in 2020, she was a faculty member at Imperial College London. Jana Giceva received her PhD at ETH Zurich in 2017. She also held roles with Microsoft Research and Oracle Labs.

Recent Papers Highlights

Michael Georgoulakis, Daniel Ritter, Viktor Leis, Jana Giceva, VLDB (2026)
Mateusz Gienieczko, Maximilian Kuschewski, Thomas Neumann, Viktor Leis, Jana Giceva, VLDB (2025)
Michael Jungmair, Jana Giceva, VLDB (2025)
Christoph Anneser, Lukas Vogel, Ferdinand Gruber, Maximilian Bandle, Jana Giceva, HotOS (2023)
Michael Jungmair, Andre Kohn, Jana Giceva, VLDB (2022)
Per Fuchs, Domagoj Margan, Jana Giceva, VLDB (2022)

Publications

Awards

  • VLDB Best Research Paper Award'25 for AnyBlox
  • ERC Starting Grant in 2024 - FDS: Future-Proof Data Systems
  • Distinguished Associate Editor/Reviewer awards for VLDB 25 and VLDB 24
  • ACM SIGMOD Records Research Highlights Award'23 for Sortledton
  • Best paper runner-up at VLDB'22 for Sortledton
  • Honorable mention at SIGMOD'21
  • VMware Early Career Faculty Award 2019
  • ETH Medal for outstanding PhD dissertation in the Department of Computer Science 2018
  • Google PhD Fellowship for Operating Systems 2014
  • Best Poster Award "Databases and Operating Systems: Friends or Foes?", EuroSys 2012

Recent Service

  • Chair: ACM DaMoN 26/27, associate editor for VLDB 25/26/27
  • PC member: SIGMOD 2026/27, SOSP 2026, ASPLOS 2026

Teaching

  • Summer 2026: Cloud-Based Data Processing
  • Summer 2026: Data Processing on Modern Hardware
  • Summer 2026: Perlen der Informatik 4
  • Summer 2026: Praktikum - Cloud-Based Data Processing
  • Summer 2026: Praktikum - Data Processing on Modern Hardware
  • Winter 25/26: Foundations in Data Engineering
  • Winter 25/26: Seminar - Operating Systems and Virtualization