Dr. Ankur Sharma

Overview

Dr. Ankur Sharma
Postdoctoral Researcher
Big Data Analytics Group
Campus E1.1, R4.06.3
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

e-mail: ankur.sharma [at] bigdata.uni-saarland.de
phone: +49 (0) 681 302 70144

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Big Data Analytics Group of Saarland University. I finished my Ph.D. in June 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Jens Dittrich. I worked on optimizing transaction processing in main-memory database systems and permissioned-blockchain systems. Currently, I am working as a Co-Founder of ChainifyDB. Our spin-off project is currently funded with 840,000 Euro under the StartUpSecure program of the BMBF.

Publications

• Ankur Sharma
  Snapshot: Friend or Foe of Data Management -- On Optimizing Transaction Processing in Database and Blockchain Systems
  Ph.D. Thesis
  
  
• Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Ankur Sharma, Jens Dittrich, Divya Agrawal
  ChainifyDB: How to Blockchainify any Data Management System
  arXiv:1912.04820 [cs.DB]
  
  
• Ankur Sharma, Felix Martin Schuknecht, Divya Agrawal, Jens Dittrich
  Blurring the Lines between Blockchains and Database Systems: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric
  ACM SIGMOD 2019
  
  
• Ankur Sharma, Felix Martin Schuknecht, Divya Agrawal, Jens Dittrich
  How to Databasify a Blockchain: the Case of Hyperledger Fabric
  arXiv:1810.13177 [cs.DC]
  
  
• Ankur Sharma, Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich
  Accelerating Analytical Processing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting
  ACM SIGMOD 2018
  
  
• Ankur Sharma, Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich
  The Case for Automatic Database Administration using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  arXiv:1801.05643 [cs.DB]
  
  
• Ankur Sharma, Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich
  Accelerating Analytical Procesing in MVCC using Fine-Granular High-Frequency Virtual Snapshotting
  arXiv:1709.04284 [cs.DB], September 14, 2017
  
  
• Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich, Ankur Sharma
  RUMA has it: Rewired User-space Memory Access is Possible!
  VLDB 2016
  
  

Positions

• March 2020 - to date
  Co-Founder @ ChainifyDB
  
  
• April 2016 - to date
  Research Assistant
  Big Data Analytics Group
  Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
  
  
• September 2013 - September 2014
  Undergraduate Research Assistant
  Center for Information Services & High Performance Computing (ZIH)
  Techniche Universitaet Dresden, Germany
  
  
• May 2013 - July 2013
  Summer Research Intern (DAAD WISE Fellow)
  Center for Information Services & High Performance Computing (ZIH)
  Techniche Universitaet Dresden, Germany
  
  
• May 2012 - July 2012
  Summer Research Intern
  Computer Science Department
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
  
  

Studies

• April 2016 - June 2020
  Ph.D. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude
  Saarland Informatics Campus
  Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
  
  
• October 2014 - March 2016
  Prepatory Phase (Ph.D.), Cummulative GPA: 1,8
  Saarland Informatics Campus
  Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
  
  
• September 2013 - September 2014
  Exchange Student
  Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
  
  
• August 2010 - September 2014
  B.Tech. in Computer Science (Institute Gold Medal)
  National Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India