Hi, Niklas here 👋

Research Associate

@ Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

I work on modern cloud and serverless architectures, focusing on scalable and efficient distributed systems. Alongside my research, I closely follow current developments in cybersecurity. Interested in connecting or collaborating? Feel free to reach out via email – I look forward to hearing from you.
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Niklas Kowallik

Publications

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  • Natalie Carl, Niklas Kowallik, Constantin Stahl, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, and David Bermbach. 2026. Serverless Abstractions for Short-Running, Lightweight Streams. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies (SESAME '26), April 27, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03089. In press.
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  • Niklas Kowallik, Natalie Carl, Leon Pöllinger, Wei Wang, Sharan Santhanam, and David Bermbach. 2026. Provuse: Platform-Side Function Fusion for Performance and Efficiency in FaaS Environments. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies (SESAME '26), April 27, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06170. In press.
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  • Niklas Kowallik, Trever Schirmer, and David Bermbach. 2026. Konflux: Optimized Function Fusion for Serverless Applications. arXiv:2601.11156. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11156. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E '26), October 13–16, 2026, Santa Clara, CA, USA. IEEE.
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  • Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Niklas Kowallik, Joshua Adamek, Tobias Pfandzelter, Sergio Lucia, and David Bermbach. 2025. Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing. In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E '25), September 2025, Rennes, France. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 146–154. https://doi.org/10.1109/IC2E65552.2025.00030.
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