I’m chairing the research program committee of the ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2026 together with Sukanya Bhowmik (University of Potsdam). Paper deadline is 20th of Feburary. More information is on the website: https://2026.debs.org/
Author Archives: Ruben Mayer
Area Chair ICDE 26 & Reviewer NeurIPS 25
I’m honored to announce that I will serve as an area chair for ICDE 2026 and as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025!
Associate Editor for PVLDB Volume 19 (VLDB 2026)
I’m an Associate Editor for PVLDB Volume 19 (VLDB 2026), covering the period from April 2025 to March 2026. Accepted papers from this volume will be presented at VLDB 2026, which will be held in Boston, USA.
VLDB Paper Accepted
Our paper titled “How Reliable Are Streams? End-to-End Processing-Guarantee Validation and Performance Benchmarking of Stream Processing Systems” has just been accepted for VLDB 2025!
Papers accepted at VLDB and Middleware conference
Two papers on GNN and Federated Learning systems have been accepted at international top conferences: Nikolai Merkel, Pierre Toussing, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. “Can Graph Reordering Speed Up Graph Neural Network Training? An Experimental Study.” 15 Pages. Accepted at VLDB 2025. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11129 Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Ruben Mayer, Shiqiang Wang, and Hans-ArnoContinue reading “Papers accepted at VLDB and Middleware conference”
Associate Editor at ICDE
I’m honered to be invited as Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2025!
Paper accepted at EDBT
Our paper titled “An Experimental Comparison of Partitioning Strategies for Distributed Graph Neural Network Training” has been accepted at EDBT 2025! A preprint can be found on Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15602
Open PhD Position @ University of Bayreuth
I have an open PhD position in the research area of decentralized machine learning. More information here!
New DFG Project: Graph Partitioning for Graph Neural Networks
My project “Graph Partitioning for Graph Neural Networks” got funded by DFG, the German Research Foundation!
Papers at IJCAI and DEEM
Two machine learning papers have been accepted: Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Shiqiang Wang, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. “A Survey on Efficient Federated Learning Methods for Foundation Model Training.” In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’24). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04472 Herbert Woisetschläger, Alexander Erben, Shiqiang Wang, Ruben Mayer, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.Continue reading “Papers at IJCAI and DEEM”