ADRIAN LUTSCH

PhD Student — Systems Group, TU Darmstadt

I am a database systems researcher focusing on building high-performance, secure database management systems (DBMSs) using trusted execution environments (TEEs). I am especially interested in multi-tenant cloud database deployments.

News

2026 Won the evaluation award for best exercise in computer science at TU Darmstadt, winter semester 2025/26.

2026 Paper on fast secure storage for DBMSs in Intel SGXv2 presented at DaMoN.

2025 Paper on AWS Nitro Enclaves for database workloads presented at DaMoN.

2025 Paper on benchmarking Intel SGXv2 presented at EDBT.

2025 Survey article on trusted cloud DBMSs published in Datenbank-Spektrum.

Publications

DaMoN 2026

How to Make Secure Storage Fast for DBMSs in Intel SGXv2

A. Lutsch, C. Franck, M. El-Hindi, N. May, Z. István, C. Binnig

Datenbank-Spektrum 25(1)

Towards High-performance and Trusted Cloud DBMSs

A. Lutsch, M. El-Hindi, Z. István, C. Binnig

DaMoN 2025

An Analysis of AWS Nitro Enclaves for Database Workloads

A. Lutsch, C. Franck, M. El-Hindi, Z. István, C. Binnig

EDBT 2025

Benchmarking Analytical Query Processing in Intel SGXv2

A. Lutsch, M. El-Hindi, M. Heinrich, D. Ritter, Z. István, C. Binnig

BTW 2023

Benchmarking the Second Generation of Intel SGX for Machine Learning Workloads

A. Lutsch, G. Singh, M. Mundt, R. Mogk, C. Binnig

DaMoN 2022

Benchmarking the Second Generation of Intel SGX Hardware

M. El-Hindi, T. Ziegler, M. Heinrich, A. Lutsch, Z. Zhao, C. Binnig

Datenbank-Spektrum 21(3)

Kurz erklärt: Measuring Data Changes in Data Engineering and their Impact on Explainability and Algorithm Fairness

M. Klettke, A. Lutsch, U. Störl

Teaching

I offer and supervise theses, labs, and working student projects in my research area. Please have a look at my TU Darmstadt page for further details.

I am also a TA for Scalable Data Management Systems (SDMS) For issues regarding this course, please follow the contacting guidelines available in Moodle.