Dr. rer. nat. Muhammad El-Hindi
Technical University of Munich
Informatics 13 - Chair of Decentralized Information Systems and Data Management (Prof. Leis)
Postal address
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München
- Phone: -
- Room: 5606.01.061
- muhammad.el-hindi@tum.de
Bio
Muhammad El-Hindi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Decentralized Information Systems and Data Management, which he joined in August 2025. He earned his Ph.D. from TU Darmstadt in 2023, where he also spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on secure cloud databases. His current research focuses on cloud-native data systems, with an emphasis on designing high-performance, cost-efficient services such as write-ahead logging (WAL) and distributed page servers. Beyond data management, Muhammad’s interests span distributed systems and the formal verification of distributed protocols, aiming to make large-scale systems more reliable, secure, and efficient.
Selected Publications
- A Wake-Up Call for Kernel-Bypass on Modern Hardware
Matthias Jasny, Muhammad El-Hindi, Tobias Ziegler, Carsten Binnig,
DaMoN@SIGMOD 2025 - An Analysis of AWS Nitro Enclaves for Database Workloads
Adrian Lutsch, Christian Franck, Muhammad El-Hindi, Zsolt István, Carsten Binnig,
DaMoN@SIGMOD 2025 - Towards High-performance and Trusted Cloud DBMSs
Adrian Lutsch, Muhammad El-Hindi, Zsolt István, Carsten Binnig,
Datenbank-Spektrum 2025 - Benchmarking Analytical Query Processing in Intel SGXv2
Adrian Lutsch, Muhammad El-Hindi, Matthias Heinrich, Daniel Ritter, Zsolt IstvĂĄn, Carsten Binnig,
EDBT 2025 - Towards a Benchmark for Shared Databases [Vision Paper]
Muhammad El-Hindi, Ashwin Arora, Simon Karrer, Carsten Binnig,
Datenbank-Spektrum 2022 - Benchmarking the Second Generation of Intel SGX Hardware
Muhammad El-Hindi, Tobias Ziegler, Matthias Heinrich, Adrian Lutsch, Zheguang Zhao, Carsten Binnig,
DaMoN@SIGMOD 2022 - ACID-V: Towards a New Class of DBMSs for Data Sharing
Muhammad El-Hindi, Zheguang Zhao, Carsten Binnig,
POLY@VLDB 2021 - BlockchainDB: A Shared Database on Blockchains
Muhammad El-Hindi, Carsten Binnig, Arvind Arasu, Donald Kossmann, Ravi Ramamurthy,
VLDB 2019
Theses
I cannot supervise additional theses during the 2025/2026 winter term.