Teaching

Organization and lecturing

• Bachelor & Master Seminar: Operating Complex IT Systems (Winter 23/24)
• Bachelor programming course Programmierpraktikum: Skalierbare Systeme (Summer 23)
• Master Project: Distributed Systems on carbon-aware computing (Winter 22/23)

Co-organization

• Lecture on Cloud Computing (Winter 23/24)
• Lecture on Critical Infrastructure and Digitalization (Summer 21 and 22)
• Winter Schools on “Smart Sensing” and “Smart Cities” (Winter 20/21, 21/22, and 22/23)
• Smart City Hackathon 2021 and Smart City Hackathon 2022
• Student supervision in the Bachelor & Master Seminar: Operating Complex IT Systems (Winter 20/21 until Winter 23/24)

Thesis Supervision

Completed Master’s Theses

• Stochastic Workload Admission Control based on Probabilistic Forecasts of Compute Capacity and Renewable Excess Energy. Joseph Tannor. 2023.
• Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Microservice-Based Cloud Applications by Periodically Scaling their Energy Demand. Kevin Kreutz. 2023.
• Co-Simulation of Edge Computing Environments and Smart Microgrids. Yazan Kittaneh. 2023.
• Renewable Energy-Aware Scheduling for Federated Learning. Pratik Agrawal. 2022.
• A Probabilistic Simulator for Solar-Powered Aerial Base Stations. Paniz Shahlaee. 2022.
• Forecasting Battery Charge Levels in Renewable-Powered IoT Systems. Kenan Skon. 2022.
• Renewable-Aware Kubernetes Scheduling to Mitigate Carbon Emissions in Distributed Systems. Timo Kraus. 2022.

Completed Bachelor’s Theses

• A System Architecture for Determining Free Edge Computing Capacity Powered by Renewable Energy. Leo Lierse. 2022.
• Renewable-Aware Kubernetes Scheduling for Edge Computing. Julian Tochman-Szewc. 2022.
• A Hardware Testbed for Renewable-Aware Resource Management at the Edge. Marvin Steinke. 2022.
• Interaktive Visualisierung von Energieverbrauch in Edge- und Fog-Computing-Simulationen (Interactive Visualization of Energy Consumption in Edge and Fog Computing Simulators). Yana Kernerman. 2022.
• Predicting the State of Charge of Battery-Equipped IoT Devices via Simulation. Mugheera Ahmad. 2022.
• An Evaluation of Carbon-Aware Geographical Load Shifting Techniques. Liam Brugger. 2021.
• Vergleich von Ansätzen zur CO2-Einsparung in Fog-Computing-Umgebungen (Comparison of Approaches for Saving CO2 in Fog Computing Environments). Oksana Behrens. 2021.