Ilir Fetai

Education

• 2011 - 2016: PhD Computer Science
  Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
  University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Specialty: Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing
  Thesis: "Cost- and Workload-Driven Data Management in the Cloud"
  
  
• Aug 2008 - Jul 2011: Master of Science in Computer Science
  University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Specialty: Distributed Systems, Autonomous Systems, Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing
  
  
• Jan 2000 - Aug 2004: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  University of Basel, Basel
  Specialty: Distributed Systems
  
  

Publications

• Ilir Fetai, Alexander Stiemer and Heiko Schuldt. QuAD: A Quorum Protocol for Adaptive Data Management in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2017). 2017.
  
  
• Alexander Stiemer, Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. Analyzing the Performance of Data Replication and Data Partitioning in the Cloud: the Beowulf Approach. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management (SCDM 2016) - co-located with IEEE Big Data 2016. 2016.
  
  
• Alexander Stiemer, Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. Analyzing the Performance of Data Replication and Data Partitioning in the Cloud: the Beowulf Approach. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Scalable Cloud Data Management (SCDM 2016) - co-located with IEEE Big Data 2016. 2016.
  
  
• Filip Brinkmann, Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. SLA-basierte Konfiguration eines modularen Datenbanksystems für die Cloud. In D. Fasel, A. Meier (Hrsg.): Big Data: Grundlagen, Systeme und Nutzungspotenziale (Edition HMD). 2016.
  
  
• Ilir Fetai, Damian Murezzan and Heiko Schuldt. Workload-Driven Adaptive Data Partitioning and Distribution – The Cumulus Approach. In The Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 2015.
  
  
• Ilir Fetai, Filipp Brinkmann and Heiko Schuldt. PolarDBMS:Towards a Cost-Effective and Policy-Based Data Management in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB 2014). 2014.
  
  
• Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. SO1SR: Towards a self-optimizing One-Copy Serializability Protocol for Data Management in the Cloud. In Fifth International Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB 2013). 2013.
  
  
• Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. Cost-Based Adaptive Concurrency Control in the Cloud. 2012.
  
  
• Ilir Fetai and Heiko Schuldt. Cost-Based Data Consistency in Data-as-a-Service Cloud Environment. In roceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2012), pp. 12. 2012.
  
  

Work Experience

• 2011 - Present : Docent
  University of Applied Science, https://www.ffhs.ch/
  Type of business or sector: University of Applied Sciences
  Main responsibilities: Docent for Web Technologies, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Data Warehousing und Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning
  
  
• 2016 - Present : Head of the Department on Web Technologies
  University of Applied Science, https://www.ffhs.ch/
  Type of business or sector: University of Applied Science
  Main responsibilities: Heading the Department of Web Technologies: Development of Courses, Quality Assurance, People Management
  
  
• 2019 - Present : Head of Competence Center on Machine Perception
  SBB, sbb.ch
  Type of business or sector: Swiss Railways
  Main responsibilities: Head of the enterprise-wide competence center on Machine Perception. Machine Perception comprises all activities related to the understanding of image and video data using artificial intelligence.
  
  
• 2019 - Present : Head of Artificial Intelligence in Railinspect
  SBB, sbb.ch
  Type of business or sector: Swiss Railways
  Main responsibilities: Head of the Artificial Intelligence for Railinspect. This includes all topics related to Artificial Intelligence in the monitoring and maintenance of railway infrastructure
  
  
• 2019 - Present : Ass. Prof. Dr
  SEEU, Tetove, Macedonia
  Type of business or sector: University
  Main responsibilities: Teaching of Courses at Master Level: Service-Oriented Architectures and Distributed Computing
  
  
• Jan 2021 - Present : Member of the Machine Learning Workstream at CBA Labs
  CBA Labs
  Type of business or sector: CBA Labs
  
  
• Feb 2021 - Present : Lecturer Operating Systems
  FHNW, Basel
  Type of business or sector: University of Applied Sciences
  Main responsibilities: Lecturer on the topics of Operating Systems
  
  
• 2016 - 2019: Senior Technology Manager
  SBB, sbb.ch
  Type of business or sector: Swiss Railways
  Main responsibilities: Responsibe for the enterprise-wide technology management. This includes the technology strategy, to which the IT needs to comply, the cloud strategy, the screening of new technologies, like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, security topics.
  
  
• 2017 - 2018: Head of the Security Workstream
  SBB, cba-labs.de
  Type of business or sector: Cross Business Architecture Labs
  Main responsibilities: Head of the workstream "Cybersecurity" in context of CBA Labs. CBA Labs is a network of major german-speaking companies, like Deutsche Telecom, VW, Audi, Daimler, SBB, Deutsche Bahn.
  
  
• 2006 - 2011: Software Architect
  RTC AG, Bern, Switzerland
  Type of business or sector: Banking
  Main responsibilities: Architect for the frameworks used to develop banking software (JEE, Scripting, Java, Business Rules), Enterprise Application Integration
  
  
• 2001 - 2006: Software Developer
  Ascom Transmissions, Bern, Switzerland
  Type of business or sector: Telecommunications
  Main responsibilities: Development of Software for the management of networks (C++, Corba, JEE, Java, XML)