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General Information

Full Name Azim Afroozeh
Affiliation Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
Position Postdoctoral Researcher
Languages English, Persian, Dutch (A2)

Education

  • 2020 – 2024
    PhD in Computer Science
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & CWI
    • Research on designing a new big data file format.
  • 2018 – 2020
    MSc in Computer Science
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Amsterdam
  • 2010 – 2016
    BSc in Computer Engineering
    Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

Experience

  • 2024 – Present
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    CWI – Database Architectures Group
  • 2019 – 2020
    Internship
    CWI – Master's Thesis Project
    • Designed and implemented a prototype new file format for big data. Evaluated performance vs. Parquet and ORC.
    • Master’s thesis (PDF)

Research Projects

  • 2022 – present
    FastLanes
    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
    • Lead developer of FastLanes, a next-gen file format designed for big data.

Publications

  • G-ALP: Rethinking GPU Decompression of LightWeight Encodings
    DaMoN 2025
    • Sven Hielke Hepkema, Azim Afroozeh, Charlotte Felius, Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold
    • PDF
  • Accelerating GPU Data Processing using FastLanes Compression
    DaMoN 2024
  • Reproducibility Report for ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Compression
    SIGMOD 2024
    • Bogdan Nicusor Bindea, George Katsogiannis-Meimarakis, Luca Zecchini, Azim Afroozeh, Leonardo Kuffó, Peter Boncz
    • DOI: 10.1145/3687998.3717057
  • ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Compression
    SIGMOD 2024
  • The FastLanes Compression Layout: Decoding >100 Billion Integers per Second with Scalar Code
    VLDB 2023

Technical Skills

  • {"Programming Languages"=>"C++, CUDA, Java, Python, SQL"}
  • {"Data Systems"=>"Database architectures, Big data processing, File formats"}
  • {"Compression"=>"Data compression algorithms, SIMD optimization"}
  • {"Cloud & Distributed Systems"=>"AWS, MapReduce, Distributed computing"}
  • {"Tools & Technologies"=>"Git, Docker, Linux"}

Major Projects

Freelance Android Applications

  • Dental Notes for Dentists — published on Cafebazaar
  • Pregnancy Tracker for obstetricians

Languages

English TOEFL iBT 97/120 (R: 27, L: 26, S: 20, W: 24)
Persian Native
Dutch A2 level