Hamish Nicholson

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I am a Doctoral Candidate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), working in the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems laboratory with Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. I am currently interested in efficiently using modern storage hardware to improve analytical processing.

Fun Stuff

In my spare time I enjoy cooking, the mountains, collecting cameras, and tinkering with my home lab and network.

news

Jul 10, 2023 Our paper Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures was accepted at TPCTC 2023.
May 10, 2023 I will be joining the SystemsResearch@Google group this summer to do research at the intersection of computer architecture and data management systems
Nov 01, 2022 Our paper HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics was accepted at CIDR 2023
Oct 11, 2022 I gave a presentation on Flash-based GPU-accelerated queries, at HPTS 2022
Jun 05, 2022 I presented our work, HPCache, at DaMoN 2022.