Conference Talk at SIGMOD'20

Education

• ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  2018 –

  Doctor of Sciences

  Computer Science

  Advanced Systems Lab; Learning to Teach; Data Modelling and Databases; Hardware Architectures for Machine Learning; Writing for Publication in Computer Science.

• Paris-Saclay University, France

  2015 – 2018

  Master of Engineering

  Electrical and Electronic Engineering

  Real-time computing; FPGA design; DSP design; .Net C# Framework; Graphical acceleration techniques; Android embedded applications; Distributed applications; Parallelism and video; Financial markets; Corporate social responsibility.

• Paris-Saclay University, France

  2017 – 2018

  Master of Science

  Embedded Systems and Information Processing

  Advanced Architecture; Safety & Security of Real-time Systems; Embedded Processors & Specialised Architectures; Instrumenting & Interfacing of Embedded Systems; Parallel Architecture & Programming; Robotic Vision; Vocal Recognition & Interaction.

• University College London, England

  2016 – 2017

  3rd year Affiliate

  Electronic and Electrical Engineering

  Electronic Circuits III; Advanced Digital Design; Image Processing; Programming and Control Systems; Control Systems II; Digital Signal Processing and Systems; English Language Skill for Academic Purposes; Management Accounting for Decision Makers.

• Paris-Sud University, France

  2014 – 2015

  Bachelor of Science

  Electrical Engineering

  Energy Conversion; Signals, Systems and Automation; C Programming; Probabilities; Digital Electronics; Analogical Electronics; Experimental Physics; Physics and Materials for Information and Energy; History of Electricity and Electromagnetism; French; English; Italian; Entrepreneurship Knowledge.

• Pontifical Catholic University RS, Brazil

  2011 – 2014

  Bachelor of Engineering

  Computer Engineering [not completed]

  Algorithms and Data Structures I and II; Circuit Analysis I; Computational Methods; Computer Architecture I and II; Computer Logic; Computer Organisation [Lecture and Practical]; Differential Calculation and Integrals I to IV; Differential Equations and Integral Transformations; Digital Circuits; Discrete Mathematics; Electromagnetism; Fundamental Mechanics; General Chemistry; Matrix Algebra; Operational Systems; Probability and Statistics; Programming I and II; Signals and Systems; Software Engineering; Technical Drawing; Theory of Computability; Thermology and Fluids; Waves and Modern Physics.

Experience

• Zürich, Switzerland

  Oct'18 –

  ETH Zürich

  PhD Researcher

• Cambridge, England

  Mar - Jun'21

  Microsoft

  PhD Researcher

  Design and implementation of a soft-core architecture for query filtering and aggregation within a key-value store hardware engine deployed on Azure cloud infrastructure. [Project]

  system verilog, fpga, azure, key-value store, hardware data processing

• Palaiseau, France

  Mar – Sep'18

  CEA Saclay

  Master Thesis Student

  Study, optimisation and implementation of the memory organisation on a hardware architecture of a scalar and low energy consumption neural network accelerator. [Seminar]

  VHDL, FPGA, ASIC, Testbench, AMBA AXI4, memory hierarchy, artificial intelligence

• Lisbon, Portugal

  Jun – Sep'17

  INESC-ID

  Bachelor Thesis Student

  Exploitation of Data-Flow Parallelism and Stream Processing Paradigms within Reconfigurable Processor Architectures. [Paper] [Slides]

  CPU Architecture, VHDL, Simulation, Testbench, Xilinx Virtex7, risc-v, MicroBlaze, mb-lite

• Porto Alegre, Brazil

  May – Dec'12

  Hewlett-Packard

  Intern at Center for Research and Applied Computing

  Investigated and validated prototypes of cutting edge technologies on cloud computing and mobile applications.

  Bluetooth, NFC, Wifi Direct, UPnP, C++, C#, Java, Android, HCI, Quality reporter

Teaching Assistant

• ETH Zürich

  Autumn '22

  Big Data

• ETH Zürich

  Spring '22

  Data Modelling and Databases

• ETH Zürich

  Autumn '21

  Data Management Systems

• ETH Zürich

  Autumn '20

  Data Management Systems

• ETH Zürich

  Spring '20

  Informatik

• ETH Zürich

  Autumn '19

  Hardware Acceleration for Data Processing

Service and Events

• EuroSys 2021

  Mar '21

  Systems Research Artifacts

  Artifact Evaluation Committee

• Boston, United States

  Oct '16 – '20

  iGEM Foundation

  Judge

  Judged 51 teams and 31 finalist nominees at '16-'20 Giant Jamborees on Measurement, Diagnostics, Environment, High School, Hardware, Energy and Software tracks.

  Video & Remote Technology Committee

  Porting a 6k-attendant conference to an online platform.

Invited Talks

• Nov '19

  An NFA-Based Approach for Accelerating Business Rule Inference on Reconfigurable Hardware

  Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France

Publications

• VLDB'22

  2022

  Hardware Acceleration of Compression and Encryption in SAP HANA | 🏆 Best Industry Paper Award

  Monica Chiosa∗, Fabio Maschi∗, Ingo Müller, Gustavo Alonso, Norman May

  In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 15, No. 12, 2022, Sydney, Australia.

  [Publication] [Paper] [Video] [Citation]

• AMADEUS'21

  2021

  From Research to Proof-of-Concept: Analysis of a Deployment of FPGAs on a Commercial Search Engine

  Fabio Maschi, Gustavo Alonso, Anthony Hock-Koon, Nicolas Bondoux, Teddy Roy, Mourad Boudia, and Matteo Casalino

  Amadeus White Paper, 2021, Sophia Antipolis, France.

  [Publication] [Paper] [Citation]

• SIGMOD'20

  2020

  Making Search Engines Faster by Lowering the Cost of Querying Business Rules Through FPGAs

  Fabio Maschi, Muhsen Owaida, Gustavo Alonso, Matteo Casalino, and Anthony Hock-Koon

  In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '20), June 14–19, 2020, Portland, OR, USA.

  [Publication] [Paper] [Slides] [Video] [Code] [Citation]