Short Bio

Kilian Pfeiffer received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Since 2020, he is pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörg Henkel at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Publications

Conferences
Martin Rapp, Ramin Khalili, Kilian Pfeiffer, Jörg Henkel DISTREAL: Distributed Resource-Aware Learning in Heterogeneous Systems in Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'22), Vancouver, Canada, DOI, PDF, Feb 22 - Mar 01 2022.

arXiv
Kilian Pfeiffer, Martin Rapp, Ramin Khalili, Jörg Henkel CoCo-FL: Communication- and Computation-Aware Federated Learning via Partial NN Freezing and Quantization in arXiv, DOI, PDF, Mar 2022.

Student Theses

Abbreviation: B - Bachelor Thesis, M - Master Thesis

Topic	Type of work	Mentor
Federated Learning Framework (PDF)	B	Pfeiffer, Kilian / Rapp, Martin
Data and Resources in Federated Learning (PDF)	B / M	Pfeiffer, Kilian / Rapp, Martin
Energy-Efficient Federated Learning (PDF)	B / M	Rapp, Martin / Pfeiffer, Kilian
Model Update Quality in Federated Learning (PDF)	M	Rapp, Martin / Pfeiffer, Kilian

Name	Type of work	Title	Mentor
Buscher, Julian	Master thesis	Model Update Quality in Federated Learning	Pfeiffer, Kilian
Said, Abdelrahman	Bachelor thesis	Federated Learning Framework	Pfeiffer, Kilian

Name	Type of work	Title	Mentor	Completion date
Kızılçelik, Barış Umut	Bachelor thesis	Development of an ML Library Agnostic Federated Learning Framework for Embedded Hardware	Pfeiffer, Kilian	2023-03-13
Uhl, Hannes	Master thesis	Performance and Energy Modeling of CNN Inference and Training on Embedded GPUs	Pfeiffer, Kilian / Rapp, Martin	2022-05-02
Schmitt, Matthias	Master thesis	Latent Space Knowledge Distillation under Heterogeneous Data	Pfeiffer, Kilian / Rapp, Martin	2021-12-01