
Arnab Phani
Doctoral Researcher
Arnab is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the DAMS Lab headed by Matthias Boehm. Before joining TU Berlin, he was a Ph.D. student at TU Graz, Austria, and prior to that, he was a Sr. Software Engineer at Teradata Labs, Hyderabad, India.
- Systems for ML
- Data Management for Data Science
- Distributed Data Platforms
- Database Systems
Arnab Phani
Fine-grained reuse and feature transformations in machine learning systems
Arnab Phani, Matthias Boehm
MEMPHIS: Holistic Lineage-based Reuse and Memory Management for Multi-backend ML Systems
Sebastian Baunsgaard, Matthias Boehm, Kevin Innerebner, Mito Kehayov, Florian Lackner, Olga Ovcharenko, Arnab Phani, Tobias Rieger, David Weissteiner, Sebastian Benjamin Wrede
Federated Data Preparation, Learning, and Debugging in Apache SystemDS
Arnab Phani, Lukas Erlbacher, Matthias Boehm
UPLIFT: Parallelization Strategies for Feature Transformations in Machine Learning Workloads
Arnab Phani, Benjamin Rath, Matthias Boehm
LIMA: Fine-grained Lineage Tracing and Reuse in Machine Learning Systems

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Arnab Phani
Dr. Arnab Phani is a Postdoctoral Researcher at BIFOLD, where he addresses data management challenges in modern AI. Building directly on his foundational PhD work at the DAMS Lab, his current research at the DEEM Lab focuses on enhancing runtime efficiency and fostering responsible data management practices across the entire machine learning pipeline - from data cleaning and validation to training and inference.