Erik Lennart Nijkamp

Innsbrucker Str. 19, 10825 Berlin, Germany erik.nijkamp@gmail.com

PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME NATIONAILTY EMAIL
Erik Lennart Nijkamp german erik.nijkamp@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE
11/2009 current Research Assistant
(part-time)

Technical University of Berlin, Database Systems and Information Management Group

Development of a framework that strives to massively parallelize complex processing tasks through a computational model motivated by functional programming.

07/2010 10/2010

Research Assistant
IBM R&D (Research), San Jose, CA, USA

(internship)

IBM Research Facility ARC (Silicon Valley) Involved in the development of a parallel matrix factorization algorithm based on stochastic gradient descent. Solving this optimization problem efficiently has applications to well-known machine learning problems such as collaborative filtering or fuzzy clustering.

10/2008 04/2009

Software Engineer
IBM R&D (Development), Bblingen, Germany

(full-time)

Participated in the development of a WebSphere based software product (WBIFN) which provided a gateway to the SWIFT network for third-party financial applications.

04/2008 10/2008

SAP Consulting
IBM R&D (Research), Bblingen, Germany

(internship)

Incorporated aspects of real-time analytics in SAP CRM as a joint effort of the local SAP data integration and remote SAP consulting departments. The results formed the basis of the bachelor thesis.

07/2007 10/2007

Research Assistant
IBM R&D (Research), San Jose, CA, USA

(internship)

IBM Research Facility ARC (Silicon Valley) Involved in the development of a patented algorithm based on Google's PageRank.

01/2007 04/2007

Java Development
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Walldorf, Germany

(internship)

RFID deployment for automobile manufacture BMW The primary goal was to enhance a roughly completed RFID application.

08/2006 11/2006

SAP Consulting
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Berlin, Germany

(internship)

SAP ABAP / CVS Integration Creation of an application which allows seamless real-time access to SAP project files stored in a central cvs repository.

01/2006 04/2006

Java Development
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Stuttgart, Germany

(internship)

CMS Migration Merger of LBBW and BW Bank required data migration. Developed a concept and the corresponding implementation of a migration application.

EDUCATION
04/2009 current Master of Science Computer Science
Technical University of Berlin
Focus: Machine Learning, Information Management, Mathematics and Parallel Computing. Minor: Business.

10/2005 09/2008

Bachelor of Science Business Computing

Berlin School of Economics
Studied Business Computing in co-operation with IBM Germany for three years. Elements of the course covered included: management, accounting, business law, SAP, database systems, software design, networking and Linux. Thesis: Der Weg zu einer prozessorientierten Entscheidungsuntersttzung durch personalisierte Echtzeit Analytik (Embedding analytics in SAP CRM)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages
German: English : Mother tongue Fluent Java, C#, C++, Matlab, Scala F#, JavaScript, Haskell, Ruby, Python, VBA

Programming

Profound: Basic:

PUBLICATIONS
2010
Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Erik Nijkamp, et al.: BinRank: Scaling Dynamic Authority-Based Search Using Materialized Subgraphs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 22(8): 1176-1190 Alexander Alexandrov, Erik Nijkamp, Stephan Ewen, Volker Markl, et al.: Massively Parallel Data Analysis with PACTs on Nephele. PVLDB 3(2): 1625-1628

2009
Martin Oberhofer, Erik Nijkamp: Embedded Analytics in Front Office Applications. BTW 2009: 449-459 Erik Nijkamp, Martin Oberhofer, Albert Maier: Value Demonstration of Embedded Analytics for Front Office Applications. BTW 2009: 624-627 Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Berthold Reinwald, Erik Nijkamp: BinRank: Scaling Dynamic AuthorityBased Search Using Materialized SubGraphs. ICDE 2009: 66-77

2008
Akanksha Baid, Andrey Balmin, Heasoo Hwang, Erik Nijkamp, Jun Rao, Berthold Reinwald, Alkis Simitsis, Yannis Sismanis, Frank van Ham: DBPubs: multidimensional exploration of database publications. PVLDB 1(2): 1456-1459 (2008)

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