CURRICULUM VITAE

                                Marcin Zukowski

Personal information

e-mail:   M.Zukowski@cwi.nl
homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~marcin

Work experience

09.2008 - now     VectorWise B.V. - CEO
                  Management of the development of a high-performance database
                  engine.
11.2003 - 08.2008 Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Project member.
                  Developing a high-performance query execution engine MonetDB/
                  X100.
07.2006 - 11.2006 Google - Engineering Intern at Ads Back-end Group.
                  Large-scale data-processing project.
09.2005 - 12.2005 Microsoft Corporation - intern at the SQL Server group.
                  Improving performance of update facilities in SQL Server.
01.2003 - 09.2003 Sentivision - developer.
                  2D and 3D user interface frameworks for multimedia devices.
10.2002 - 02.2003 Warsaw University - teaching assistant.
                  Teaching "Database Systems" course.
09.2002 - 12.2002 TLS Technologies - consultant, developer.
                  B2B and B2C applications for telecom companies in J2EE.
11.2001 - 08.2002 Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - trainee.
                  Master's thesis on parallel query execution in MonetDB.
04.1999 - 07.2001 QBS - consultant, developer.
                  Custom-built office applications. Low level database
                  integration layers.

Education

09.2001 - 08.2002 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
                  Faculty of Computer Science.
                  MSc thesis - "Parallel Query Execution in Monet on SMP
                  Machines"
                  MSc degree - August 2002.
10.1997 - 09.2002 Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland,
                  Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics
                  MSc thesis - "Parallel Query Execution in Monet on SMP
                  Machines"
                  MSc degree - September 2002.
10.1996 - 06.1997 Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland
                  Faculty of Computer Science.

Publications

* "DSM vs. NSM: CPU Performance Tradeoffs in Block-Oriented Query Processing",
  Marcin Zukowski, Niels Nes, Peter Boncz.
  DAMON workshop (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008. Best paper award.
* "Flexible and Efficient IR using Array Databases",
  Roberto Cornacchia, Sandor Heman, Marcin Zukowski, Arjen P. de Vries, Peter
  Boncz.
  VLDB Journal, Vol.17, No.1, January 2008.
* "Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS",
  Marcin Zukowski, Sandor Heman, Niels Nes and Peter Boncz.
  VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 2007
* "Vectorized Data Processing on the Cell Broadband Engine",
  Sandor Heman, Niels Nes, Marcin Zukowski, Peter Boncz.
  DAMON workshop (SIGMOD 2007), Beijing, China, June 2007. Best paper award.
* "Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using a Relational Database
  Engine",
  Sandor Heman, Marcin Zukowski, Arjen de Vries and Peter Boncz.
  CIDR 2007, Asilomar, CA, USA, January 2007.
* "Architecture-Conscious Hashing",
  Marcin Zukowski, Sandor Heman, Peter Boncz.
  DAMON workshop (SIGMOD 2006), Chicago, USA, June 2006.
* "Super-Scalar RAM-CPU Cache Compression",
  Marcin Zukowski, Sandor Heman, Niels Nes and Peter Boncz.
  ICDE 2006, Atlanta, USA, April 2006.
* "Hardware Conscious DBMS Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications",
  Marcin Zukowski.
  VLDB 2005 PhD Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
* "Improving I/O Bandwidth for Data-Intensive Applications",
  Marcin Zukowski.
  BNCOD 2005 Doctoral Consortium, Sunderland, UK, July 2005.
* "MonetDB/X100: A DBMS In The CPU Cache",
  Marcin Zukowski, Peter Boncz, Niels Nes and Sandor Heman.
  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, June 2005.
* "MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution",
  Peter Boncz, Marcin Zukowski and Niels Nes.
  CIDR 2005, Asilomar, USA, January 2005.

Professional skills

* programming languages - actively used: C, C++, Perl, assembler (i386, MOS
  6502), SQL; previous experience with: Pascal, Java, JavaScript, PHP,
  SmallTalk, SML, Lisp, Ocaml, Orca, PL-SQL.
* DBMS internals, especially query execution algorithms. Some experience with
  using: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MonetDB.
* techniques: hardware-conscious algorithms, parallel and distributed systems,
  internet protocols, code optimizations
* applications: database systems, custom-built office applications, WWW
  services, client-server systems, user interfaces
* open-source: involvement in a number of projects (e.g. MonetDB, OGRE),
  contributions to many open-source projects

Varia

Languages: polish (native), english (fluent written and spoken), german
(basic), russian (basic), dutch (basic)
Hobbies: wall-climbing, biking, computer graphics, old computers, guitar,
books, movies
Awards: best paper awards (DAMON'07, DAMON'08); multiple awards for
demonstration-programs development; laureate of national programming contest;
laureate of regional mathematical contests;