Wieger Punter

PhD Candidate

About

I am a PhD researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, working on algorithms and data management for high-volume data streams. My research focuses on designing scalable, memory-efficient methods for analysing multidimensional and continuously evolving data. My work combines theoretical algorithm design with practical implementation in data-intensive systems. I am also interested in applying these methods to interdisciplinary challenges, including the analysis of environmental and geospatial data.

News

2026 3 updates
  • Nomination

    Happy to share that I was nominated by our department for the EuroTech Rising Research Star Award. Following the nomination, I will attend the Falling Walls Science Summit in November 2026!

  • Workshop

    Excited to announce our upcoming Lorentz Center workshop on advanced data sketching tools: sketching the future! The workshop brings together researchers and industry practitioners to shape a shared research agenda for the next generation of synopsis techniques. It will take place in Leiden, NL from 20-22nd of January 2027. Check out the website for more information.

  • Publication

    Our paper on the bounded-deletions proof version of OmniSketch, with Odysseas Papapetrou and Minos Garofalakis has been accepted in the VLDB journal.

2025 3 updates
  • Presentation

    I presented our work on the bounded-deletions proof version of OmniSketch at the Dutch-Belgian Database Day in Antwerp, Belgium.

  • Presentation

    I presented our work on synopses for spatial data streams at EDBT in Barcelona, Spain.

  • Award

    We received an ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for our work on OmniSketch. Check out the paper! Also, check out the accompanied Technical Perspective, by G. Cormode.

2024 5 updates
  • Presentation

    I presented a poster on our work on synopses for spatial data streams at the Dutch Belgian Database Day in Amsterdam.

  • Publication

    Our paper on Spatial Sketch, with Jacco Kiezebrink, Odysseas Papapetrou and Kevin Verbeek was accepted at EDBT 2025, in Barcelona, Spain.

  • Award

    We received the VLDB Best Research Paper Award for our paper on OmniSketch!

  • Presentation

    I presented my first paper on OmniSketch at VLDB in Guangzhou, China.

  • Presentation

    I presented my ongoing work and vision on data summarization with sketches at the PhD Workshop during VLDB 2024. Check out the paper.

2023 2 updates
  • Presentation

    I presented our poster on OmniSketch at the Dutch-Belgian Database Day in Ghent, Belgium.

  • Publication

    Our paper on OmniSketch with Odysseas Papapetrou and Minos Garofalakis has been accepted for VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou, China!

2022 1 update
  • PhD Position

    I started a new PhD position at the Database Group in the Data Science & AI Cluster at TU Eindhoven. I will study Data Summarization, and participate in the EU Horizon Project STELAR.

Awards & Recognition

2026

Department Nomination for EuroTech Rising Research Star Award

I was nominated by the Mathematics & Computer Science Department of TU/e for this award.

2025

ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award

We received this highlight for our research on OmniSketch.

2024

PVLDB Best Research Paper Award

Received for our PVLDB paper 'OmniSketch: Efficient Multi-Dimensional High-Velocity Stream Analytics with Arbitrary Predicates'.

Selected Publications

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