• Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Computer Science Department (FB20)
• Embedded Systems & Applications Group (ESA)
• Hochschulstr. 10
• D-64289 Darmstadt


• Phone: +49 6151 / 16-22428
• E-Mail: weber@esa.tu-darmstadt.de


• S2|02 Raum E121

Research Topics

• Using FPGAs for Acceleration of database and machine learning applications
• Heterogeneous systems and applications

Short CV

• since 2019

  Graduate Research Associate in the Embedded Systems and Applications Group (ESA), TU Darmstadt

• 2017-2019

  Master of Science in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

• 2014-2017

  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

Publications

1. Vinçon, T., Bernhardt, A., Petrov, I., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2020). NKV: Near-Data Processing with KV-Stores on Native Computational Storage. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3399666.3399934
   Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{vincon2020damon,
     author = {Vin\c{c}on, Tobias and Bernhardt, Arthur and Petrov, Ilia and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
     title = {NKV: Near-Data Processing with KV-Stores on Native Computational Storage},
     year = {2020},
     isbn = {9781450380249},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3399666.3399934},
     doi = {10.1145/3399666.3399934},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware},
     articleno = {10},
     numpages = {11},
     location = {Portland, Oregon},
     series = {DaMoN ’20}
   }
   

2. Vinçon, T., Bernhardt, A., Weber, L., Koch, A., and Petrov, I. (2020). On the Necessity of Explicit Cross-Layer Data Formats in Near-Data Processing Systems. In 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW) (pp. 109–114).
   Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{vincon2020hardbd,
     author = {{Vinçon}, T. and {Bernhardt}, A. and {Weber}, L. and {Koch}, A. and {Petrov}, I.},
     booktitle = {2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)},
     title = {On the Necessity of Explicit Cross-Layer Data Formats in Near-Data Processing Systems},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {109-114},
     preprint = {http://db.ict.ac.cn/HardBD-Active-2020/papers/VinconBWKP-HardBDActive-2020.pdf}
   }
   

3. Sommer, L., Weber, L., Kumm, M., and Koch, A. (2020). Comparison of Arithmetic Number Formats for Inference in Sum-Product Networks on FPGAs. In 2020 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) (pp. 1–10).
   Best Paper Award Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{sommer2020fccm,
     author = {Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Kumm, Martin and Koch, Andreas},
     booktitle = {2020 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)},
     title = {Comparison of Arithmetic Number Formats for Inference in Sum-Product Networks on FPGAs},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {1-10}
   }
   

4. Weber, L., Sommer, L., Oppermann, J., Molina, A., Kersting, K., and Koch, A. (2019). Resource-Efficient Logarithmic Number Scale Arithmetic for SPN Inference on FPGAs. In International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT).
   Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{weber2019relnsafsiof,
     title = {Resource-Efficient Logarithmic Number Scale Arithmetic for SPN Inference on FPGAs},
     author = {Weber, Lukas and Sommer, Lukas and Oppermann, Julian and Molina, Alejandro and Kersting, Kristian and Koch, Andreas},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)},
     year = {2019}
   }
   

5. Oppermann, J., Sommer, L., Weber, L., Reuter-Oppermann, M., Koch, A., and Sinnen, O. (2019). SkyCastle: A Resource-Aware Multi-Loop Scheduler for High-Level Synthesis. In International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT).
   Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{oppermann2019scamlsfhls,
     title = {SkyCastle: A Resource-Aware Multi-Loop Scheduler for High-Level Synthesis},
     author = {Oppermann, Julian and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Reuter-Oppermann, Melanie and Koch, Andreas and Sinnen, Oliver},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)},
     year = {2019}
   }
   

6. Ober, M., Hofmann, J., Sommer, L., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2019). High-Throughput Multi-Threaded Sum-Product Network Inference in the Reconfigurable Cloud. In Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC).
   Preprint
   Bibtex

   @inproceedings{ober2019h2rc,
     title = {High-Throughput Multi-Threaded Sum-Product Network Inference in the Reconfigurable Cloud},
     author = {Ober, Micha and Hofmann, Jaco and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
     booktitle = {Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC)},
     year = {2019}
   }