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  • Dr. Christopher Rost
  • rost [at] informatik [dot] uni-leipzig [dot] de
  • +49 341 97 32249

  • Augustusplatz 10, Paulinum, Raum P414

About

  • 2016 Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig
  • 2018 Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Leipzig University
  • 2018 - 2024 Ph.D. student at Leipzig University
  • 2024 PostDoc researcher
     
  • LEG 2020 program committee member LEG @ ECML PKDD 2020

Contact

  • +49 341 97 32249
  • rost [at] informatik.uni-leipzig.de
  • Augustusplatz 10, Paulinum, Raum P414

Teaching

Research interests

  • Distributed graph processing
  • Temporal graph maintenance, querying, and analysis
  • Graph stream processing and analysis

Own thesis

  • Bachelor thesis : “Development of a generic RESTful URI-schema for the execution of database queries (German)” link
  • Master thesis: “Scalable image-based deduplication” link
  • PhD thesis: "Scalable Management and Analysis of Temporal Property Graphs" link

Selected Talks

Betreute Abschlussarbeiten (21)

Jahr Typ Student Titel Status
2024 B. Sc. Johann Jakob Kurzmann Temporal Vector Embeddings in Neo4j Running
2024 M. Sc. Florian Winkler RANDOM-QA: Question Answering mit Large Language Models und Knowledge Graphs für die Radio-Access-Network-Domäne Running
2025 B. Sc. Niklas Leon Kuhn Single-Source Earliest-Arrival mit Gradoop Finished
2025 B. Sc. Max Niclas Wächtler Evaluierung der Effizienz von Gradoop mittels LDBC FinBench Queries Finished
2024 B. Sc. Minh Nhat Phan Importing and evaluating FinBench dataset using Gradoop Finished
2024 B. Sc. Nils Harbach Graph Stream Grouping auf Basis von Apache Kafka Finished
2024 B. Sc. Linus Andreas Schneider Explorative Graph-Level Embeddings of Temporal Property Graphs Finished
2024 M. Sc. Maximilian Zimmer Vergleich von Graph-Stream-Verarbeitungssystemen Finished
2024 M. Sc. Karim Rakia From Batch to Bounded Stream Processing: Exchanging the heart of Gradoop Finished
2023 B. Sc. André Wille Erstellung einer Heatmap auf Grundlage von temporalen Graphen Finished
2023 M. Sc. Axel Schuster Organizing Time Series Data by Temporal Property Graphs Finished
2023 B. Sc. Xiaoxi Li Comparison of single-machine and distributed calculation of temporal degree metrics Finished
2023 B. Sc. Konstantin Wilson Temporal Graph Metrics Finished
2022 M. Sc. Simon Bordewisch Flexible Graphstream-Analyse mittels Apache Flinks DataStream-API Finished
2021 B. Sc. Maximilian Zimmer Kontinuierliche Graph-Query Notifikationen auf Basis eines RDBMS Finished
2021 M. Sc. Philip Fritzsche Relationale Speicherung und Verarbeitung für temporale Graphdaten Finished
2021 M. Sc. Xiaofan Guo Verteilte Graph-Stream Visualisierung mit Apache Flink Finished
2020 M. Sc. Abdalrahman Alkamel Distributed Pattern Matching on Graph Streams Finished
2020 M. Sc. Lukas Christ Distributed Graph Pattern Matching on Evolving Graphs Finished
2020 M. Sc. Rana Noureddin Distributed Grouping of Property Graph Streams Finished
2019 M. Sc. Maria Kömmpel Efficient Storage and Retrieval of Temporal Graph Data Finished

Publications (12)

Dateien Cover Beschreibung Jahr
Towards Hybrid Graphs: Unifying Property Graphs and Time Series
Ammar, M. ; Rost, C. ; Tommasini, R. ; Agarwal, S. ; Bonifati, A. ; Selmer, P. ; Kharlamov, E. ; Rahm, E.
EDBT 2025
2025
Scalable Management and Analysis of Temporal Property Graphs
Rost, C.
Universität Leipzig
2024 / 5
Seraph: Continuous Queries on Property Graph Streams
Rost, C. ; Tommasini, R. ; Bonifati, A. ; Valle, E. D. ; Rahm, E. ; Hare, K. ; Plantikow, S. ; Selmer, P. ; Voigt, H.
27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
2024 / 3
Evolution of Degree Metrics in Large Temporal Graphs
Rost, C. ; Gomez, K. ; Christen, P. ; Rahm, E.
Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW) 2023
2023 / 3
Bitemporal Property Graphs to Organize Evolving Systems
Rost, C. ; Fritzsche, P. ; Schons, L. ; Zimmer, M. ; Gawlick, D. ; Rahm, E.
Techn. Report, Univ. of Leipzig, arXiv:2111.13499, Nov 2021
2021 / 11
Distributed temporal graph analytics with GRADOOP
Rost, C. ; Gomez, K. ; Täschner, M. ; Fritzsche, P. ; Schons, L. ; Christ, L. ; Adameit, T. ; Junghanns, M. ; Rahm, E.
VLDB Journal 2021 Special Issue Paper
2021 / 5
Exploration and Analysis of Temporal Property Graphs
Rost, C. ; Gomez, K. ; Fritzsche, P. ; Thor, A. ; Rahm, E.
24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
2021 / 3
Graph Sampling with Distributed In-Memory Dataflow Systems
Gomez, K. ; Täschner, M. ; Rostami, M. ; Rost, C. ; Rahm, E.
Proc. Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW) 2021
2021 / 3
Analyzing Temporal Graphs with Gradoop
Rost, C. ; Thor, A. ; Rahm, E.
Datenbank-Spektrum 19(3)
2019 / 11
Distributed Graph Sampling with In-Memory Dataflow Systems
Gomez, K. ; Täschner, M. ; Rostami, M. ; Rost, C. ; Rahm, E.
Techn. Report, Univ. of Leipzig, arXiv:1910.04493, Oct 2019
2019 / 10