Recent News

[05/2025] I am defending my PhD on May 28th. Link to Official DIKU invitation.

[04/2025] I am co-organizing the SDPS Summer Rehearsal.

[03/2025] Selected as part of the VLDB 2026 Shadow PC.

[02/2025] Tutorial accepted at SIGMOD'25: Transactional Cloud Applications: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportunities. This is a result of our collaboration with TU Delft.

[11/2024] I gave a talk at SoCC'24 about our recent accepted paper.

[11/2024] I am co-teaching the Big Data Systems course next block. We are revamping the contents with novel research work and state of practice. We will focus in data-centric programming for the cloud this year, including models, algorithms, and systems. Reach out if you want to hear more.

[10/2024] Paper accepted at SIGMOD'25: Online Marketplace: A Benchmark Data Management Systems in Microservices.

[09/2024] Paper accepted at SoCC'24: Rethinking State Management in Actor Systems for Cloud-Native Applications.

[09/2024] I am starting a research visit to the Data-intensive Systems Group at TU Delft, chaired by Asterios Katsifodimos. We will explore topics about scalable data-intensive applications in the cloud.

[08/2024] I gave a talk about our ongoing work on rethinking DBMSs for asynchronous applications at CoPLaWS’24.

Short Bio

Rodrigo Laigner is a fourth-year PhD fellow in the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen under the supervision of Prof. Yongluan Zhou. Previously, has been co-advised by Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.

His research targets devising effective programming abstractions and efficient systems for emerging data-intensive applications. During his doctoral studies, he published relevant articles about distributed data-intensive applications in the cloud.

Rodrigo has been working on the novel vision of a Microservice-Oriented DBMS (MODB). A technical report about the system has been just released on arXiv.

If you are a student from the Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science and have an interest in pursuing a thesis in topics related to cloud and data systems, do not hesitate to contact me.