Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Erb
Benjamin Erb is employed as a research assistant at the Institute of Distributed Systems. He holds a Diploma degree in Computer Science in Media and a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Ulm University. In 2019, he received his doctoral degree for his work on a novel live graph computing approach that combines concepts of traditional graph computing with features from event-driven architectures.
His current research focuses on distributed data systems with special requirements. Such requirements include strong privacy requirements of input data as well as history-aware data collection and processing.
Research Interests
- Data-intensive Systems
- processing on evolving graphs and offline graphs
- programming models for data processing
- distributed processing platforms
- architectures for data systems with special requirements and capabilities
- Distributed Systems & Architectures
- event-driven architectures
- event sourcing & CQRS
- scalable web architectures
- concurrency and parallelism
- Privacy
- psychological aspects of privacy
- privacy aspects in empirical research
- user-centered privacy
Projects
- ReSense (tba.): Retrospective Sensor Networks and Edge Computing for Secure Event Detection and Monitoring
- SIDGRAPH (started 2014/08 – 2017/07; completed): Development of scalability and distribution mechanisms for graph-based and event-driven computations and simulations
- PRIPARE (2013/10 – 2015/09; completed): Design and implementation of a collaborative web portal for patterns and best practices for privacy
- diretto / diretto.resc (2009/10 – 2011/08; completed): The main target of this student project has been the design and prototypical implementation of a platform for distributed reporting. Use cases include collaborations in disaster scenarios and the live coverage of large-scale public events. The second stage of the project has been funded by MFG Stiftung Baden-Württemberg as part of a Karl-Steinbuch scholarship.
