Jonas Dann

PostDoc, Systems Group

jonas.dann@inf.ethz.ch

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich with Prof. Gustavo Alonso. My research focuses on heterogeneous computing systems and hardware specialization for data processing in the cloud. I currently work on data processing SmartNICs for the cloud, hardware-software co-design for analytical query execution accelerators, and infrastructure for FPGAs in the data center.

I completed my Ph.D. in computer science summa cum laude at Heidelberg University in cooperation with the HANA Database Campus at SAP, advised by Prof. Holger Fröning. My dissertation was on hardware specialization for non-relational database management systems. I earned my M.Sc. in Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2019 and my B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science at DHBW Mannheim in 2016.

Work with me

Open Source Projects

Oasis [15] — github.com/celeris-labs/oasis

Data processing SmartNIC that hides the cost of querying Parquet files in the datapath.

Coyote [9] — github.com/fpgasystems/Coyote

The operating system for FPGAs providing high-level abstractions and portability.

libSTF — https://github.com/fpgasystems/libstf

Standard library for hardware design for streaming data processing on FPGAs.

Maximus [8] — https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/...

Heterogeneous analytical query engine that leverages CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.

Selected Publications

[15] Oasis: Hiding the Cost of Querying Parquet Files in the Datapath.

Jonas Dann, Luca Tagliavini, Gustavo Alonso. Under Submission, 2026.

[14] SCENIC: Stream Computation-enhanced SmartNIC.

Benjamin Ramhorst, Maximilian Heer, Luhao Liu, Heejae Kim, Jonas Dann, Jin-Soo Kim, Gustavo Alonso. Under Submission, 2026.

[13] Should I Hide My Duck in the Lake?

Jonas Dann and Gustavo Alonso. In DaMoN, 2026.

[12] RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs.

Maximilian Heer, Benjamin Ramhorst, Yu Zhu, Luhao Liu, Zhiyi Hu, Jonas Dann, Gustavo Alonso. In OSDI, 2026.

[11] StreamDedup: Distributed In-line Deduplication for Disaggregated Storage.

Jiayong Li, Jonas Dann, Zhenhao He, Gustavo Alonso, Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti, Dejan Milojicic, Lance Evans, Alex Veprinsky, Runbin Shi. TRETS, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2026.

[10] GraphMatch: Subgraph Query Processing on Steroids.

Jonas Dann, Tobias Götz, Daniel Ritter, Jana Giceva, Holger Fröning. In SIGMOD, 2026.

[9] Coyote v2: Raising the Level of Abstraction for Data Center FPGAs.

Benjamin Ramhorst, Dario Korolija, Maximilian Heer, Jonas Dann, Luhao Liu, Gustavo Alonso. In SOSP, 2025.

[8] Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs.

Marko Kabic, Bowen Wu, Jonas Dann, Gustavo Alonso. In VLDB, 2025.

[7] GraphScale: Scalable Processing on FPGAs for HBM and Large Graphs.

Jonas Dann, Daniel Ritter, Holger Fröning. TRETS, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024.

[6] Non-relational Databases on FPGAs: Survey, Design Decisions, Challenges.

Jonas Dann, Daniel Ritter, Holger Fröning. CSUR, Volume 55, Issue 11, 2023.

[5] PipeJSON: Parsing JSON at Line Speed on FPGAs.

Jonas Dann, Royden Wagner, Daniel Ritter, Christian Färber, Holger Fröning. In DaMoN, 2022.

[4] GraphScale: Scalable Bandwidth-Efficient Graph Processing on FPGAs.

Jonas Dann, Daniel Ritter, Holger Fröning. In FPL, 2022.

[3] Demystifying Memory Access Patterns of FPGA-based Graph Processing Accelerators.

Jonas Dann, Daniel Ritter, Holger Fröning. In GRADES-NDA, 2021.

[2] Exploring Memory Access Patterns for Graph Processing Accelerators.

Jonas Dann, Daniel Ritter, Holger Fröning. In BTW, 2021.

[1] Hardware-accelerated Application Integration Processing: Industry Paper.

Daniel Ritter, Jonas Dann, Norman May, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma. In DEBS, 2017.

Service

VLDB Journal — Reviewer (2026)

VLDB — Reviewer (2026)

SoCC — Program committee (2026)

HCDS workshop @ ASPLOS — Program committee (2026)

WI — External reviewer (2023)

ICPP — External reviewer (2021, 2023)

FPL — External reviewer (2021)

Master Students

2026Luca Tagliavini, Loris Keist, Nicola Lohr, Andrei Girjoaba, Lukasz Wala, Matteo Fornaini, Stoyan Malinin, Vatsal Dixit, Anna Pecheanu (co-supervised with Prof. Ana Klimovic)

2025Philipp Engljähringer, Rasmus Lüscher (co-supervised with Prof. Michal Friedman), Sven Weber, Sven Zanetti, Cedric Caspar, Filippo Selvatici (co-supervised with Prof. Michal Friedman)

2024Linus Vogel, Paolo Rondot, Shiduo Xin, Philipp Hardegger

2022Felix Göken (Heidelberg University), Tobias Götz (TU Munich)

2021Jan Ahlbrecht (TU Munich)

2020Royden Wagner (Heidelberg University)

Bachelor Students

2026Bruce Röttgers, Janos Kreissl, Vincent Franz, Mehmet Emin Yaksi (Bilkent University), Yunus Emre Kök (Bilkent University), Simon Wieland, Simon Thalmann

2025Sebastian Gavrilas, Jakob Klemm, Manuel Sandmeier

2024Michael Egloff, Severin Obrist

Research Assistant

Aaron Schüttpelz (May–June 2026)