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Brian Setz is the lead of the Digital Lab, an initiative of the Computing Science department of the University of Groningen to innovate education. He holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Stuttgart, and a masters degree in Computing Science from the University of Groningen. His research interests include: Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Internet of Things, Energy Efficient Data Centers.

Office
5161.0306
Address
Nijenborgh 9
9747 AG Groningen
Netherlands
Email
b.setz@rug.nl

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science

    University of Stuttgart

  • MSc in Computing Science

    University of Groningen

  • BSc in Computing Science

    Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Publications

Projects

NextGenSmart DC (opens in new tab)

The NextGenSmart DC project's premise is that the application of state-of-the-art ICT tools and techniques can improve the environmental footprint of energy-intensive facilities and deliver Smarter and Greener Data-Centers, through 'self-help'.

SENSible hEating Operation Solutions

Computer-based control of the heating system of buildings that have still manual control of radiators. The solution optimizes the heating of rooms based on fusion of information regarding users presence, external weather conditions, weather forecast, and university/user calendars. The goal is to control the room heating automatically and heat only when users are present, thus, optimizing the temperature given the weather exposition and the actual number of occupants present in the room.

Sustainable Buildings (opens in new tab)

Our first Proof-of-Concept project is "The Bernoulliborg – The building of Sustainability". In this project, we apply our first smart energy solutions to an existing building to make it even more energy-efficient and that way to generate significant additional savings!

Green Mind Award

An extremely comprehensive project with advantages such as water conservation, responsible waste recycling, smart reduction in electricity consumption and intelligent lighting.

Honours, Awards & Funds

  • A students-first approach to developing AI-based systems

  • First dry lab of the University of Groningen to receive the GreenDiSC Award

  • ICT Milieu Award 2016 2016

    Top 3 nominees for the ICT Milieu Award 2016

  • SURFsara Duurzaamheid & ICT Grant 2015 2015

    10,000 EUR grant for "Sustainable Buildings Challenge" project

Supervision

  • Estimating Container-level Power Usage in Kubernetes

    B. Pijnacker

    Master Thesis
  • Estimating Energy Consumption of Cloud-Native Applications

    L. Andringa

    Master Thesis
  • Docker Kotlin

    R. Sterzing, J. Lazarini, A. Khanchi, T. Kuntkes

    Software Engineering Project
  • Exploring the effects of Location and Time on the calculation of the Carbon Footprint of Computing

    K. Chasiotis

    Honours Project + Bachelor Thesis
  • Carbon Footprint Monitoring up to Container-Level in Virtualized Environments: A Hardware and Hypervisor-Free Approach

    T. Pol

    Master Thesis
  • Observability in an OpenStack cluster

    J. Lipka

    Master Research Internship

  • UI Composition in Microservices

    G. Calcedo

    Master Research Internship

  • An Analysis of Four Server Power Models

    F. S. Müller

    Bachelor Thesis

  • Determining Carbon Dioxide Footprint using Data Center Simulators

    M. Keppler

    Bachelor Thesis
  • Sensor Fusion

    R. A. Belmannu

    Study Project
  • Interactive Dashboard

    M. Suresh

    Study Project
  • Robot Operating System: Pi on Wheels

    N. Caycedo, S. Eitschberger, L. Grohmann, P. Längerer, S. Paule, S. Xie

    Studienprojekt
  • Dynamic Personalized Home Automation Rules based on Multi-User Feedback

    D. Ivanova

    Master Thesis
  • A Review of Modelling Approaches for Computer System Components

    M. Dullak, N. Margotti, S. Zindl

    Fachstudien

  • Analysis of Open-Source Home Automation Systems

    S. Graef, D. Ivanova, A. Tiessen

    Prozessanalyse
  • HaaS: Human as a Sensor

    P. Moscoso, D. Steinacker, S. Wonner, J. Zahrabi

    Entwicklungsprojekt
  • Internet of Things and Data Centers

    I. Fourati

    Bachelor Thesis
  • A Qualitative Analysis of Data Center Simulators

    C. Goller, M. Keppler, D. Krakowiak

    Fachstudie

  • Serverless Public Dashboards for Smart Environments

    M. Amann, J. Baireuther, S. Beck, S. Graef, M. Graf, T. Gutierrez, D. Ivanova, M. Kenzler, C. Zorn

    Entwicklungsprojekt
  • A Hardware Scale Model of a Data Centre

    Y. Tijsma

    Master Thesis
  • Data Center Simulator for Sustainable Data Centers

    E. Omar

    Master Thesis

  • Adaptive On-the-fly Changes in Distributed Data Processing Pipelines

    T. Albers

    Master Thesis

  • GitHub Data Analytics

    A. Ciobisca, A. Isac

    Short Programming Project

  • Host Health from a Containers' Perspective

    A. Curganov

    Master Research Internship
  • Creating Automatic Data Aggregation and Deletion Systems for the Scalable Web

    G. Klinkenberg, Y. Tijsma

    Master Research Internship
  • Dynamic Modification of Distributed Data Analysis

    T. Albers

    Master Research Internship
  • Service Discovery

    W.G. Menninga

    Master Research Internship

  • Sleepy for Linux – Power Management Framework for Workstations

    T. Hoeksema, M. Medema

    Bachelor Thesis

Teaching

University of Stuttgart

Origin and Evolution of the Web

2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

Operating Systems

2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

University of Groningen

Scalable Computing

2018, 2017

Web and Cloud Computing

2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

Introduction to Computing Science

2016

Academic Activities

Reviewer

  • ICPE2026
  • WESOACS2022
  • ICSOC2022
  • JCC2022
  • BPM2022
  • ICSOC2021
  • SmartGridComm'21
  • WISE2021
  • ICWS2021
  • Cloud2021
  • BPM2021
  • ICCCN2021
  • SIMPAT
  • WISE2020
  • Cloud2020
  • ICWS2020
  • ISGT2020
  • CloudTech'20
  • IJCAI-PRICAI2020
  • SOCA2019
  • ICBK2019
  • COOPIS2019
  • WISE2019
  • WEBIST2019
  • ICWS2019
  • Cloud2019
  • SOSE2019
  • BigData2018
  • SOCA2018
  • WISE2018
  • UIC2018
  • AICCSA2018
  • SMC2018
  • BPM2018
  • Cloud2018
  • ICIMSA2018
  • SoSE2018
  • SC@RUG2018
  • ALLDATA2018
  • IC2IT2018
  • ENASE2018
  • ICSE2018-SEIS
  • SOCA2017
  • ESOCC2017
  • AICCSA2017
  • SC@RUG2017
  • ICWS2017
  • IC2IT2017
  • DaMNet2016
  • COOPIS2016
  • WISE2016
  • SASO2016
  • MobiSPC-2016
  • SC@RUG2016
  • ICWS2016
  • CloudTech'16
  • PAS2015