I am a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Pr. Pramod Bhatotia at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
My research interests lie at the intersection of operating systems and database systems. I’m especially interested in designing new OS interfaces to make data-intensive applications more performant and simpler.
📝 Publications
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Should Your Database Systems Use Hardware-Assisted Memory Safety Extensions in Production? Pre-print - SIGMOD’27.
Ilya Meignan–Masson*, Martin Fink*, Masanori Misono, Dimitrios Stavrakakis, Pramod Bhatotia
* Equal contribution -
uCache: A Customizable Unikernel-based IO Cache (Presentation, Code) - FAST’26.
Ilya Meignan–Masson, Masanori Misono, Viktor Leis, Pramod Bhatotia -
MorphOS: An Extensible Networked Operating System (Presentation, Code) - CoNEXT’25.
Peter Okelmann, Ilya Meignan–Masson, Masanori Misono, Pramod Bhatotia
🏆 Finalist — Best Paper Award
📖 Education
- 2023.11 - now, PhD of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2021.09 - 2023.06, Master of Computer Science (MoSIG), Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- 2018.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Computer Science (🇫🇷 Licence d’informatique), Université de Bourgogne, France
💬 Invited Talks
- 2026.05.21, uCache: A Customizable Unikernel-based IO Cache, at TUMuchData. slides.
- 2026.02.27, uCache: A Customizable Unikernel-based IO Cache, at SouthBaySystems (recording).
🧑🏫 Teaching and Advising
Teaching Assistant Duties:
- Introduction to Software Engineering (lecture): 2024/2025/2026 Summer semester
- System Programming (practical lab): 2023/2024 Winter semester
Advised students (* co-advised)
- MSc thesis: Cristian Sandu*, Milen Vitanov*, Lan Ouyang*
- BSc thesis: Paul Zhang*, Martin Lindbüchl, Raphael Dichler*, Hristina Yordanova Grigorova, Anton Ge*, Samuel Khon
- Guided Research: Martin Lindbüchl, Maurice Scholtes
🚧 Other (non-peer-reviewed)
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Bridging the Performance Gap Between Converged RDMA Dataplane and Kernel-Bypass
Master’s thesis done at the Barhausen Institut/Technical University of Dresden. -
Bridging the gap between profiling and monitoring in HPC systems with dynamically reconfigurable fine-grain data collection.
Travail d’Etude et de Recherche (TER, sort of internship) done at the DataMove team.