Fabian Heseding
Fabian Heseding is Head of Portfolio Management at the Hasso Plattner Foundation’s Investment Office, which manages the Foundation’s endowment, and at single-family office HPC. Since joining in 2021, Fabian led the Investment Office’s quantitative efforts (especially the strategic asset allocation, risk management, and ML/AI systems). Before assuming responsibility as Head of Portfolio Management, he covered the full investment lifecycle across asset classes for fund and direct investments.
Fabian holds a Master and Bachelor of Science in I.T.-Systems Engineering from the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. His research has been published at leading venues, including the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), and the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
Experience
- 2025-now: Investment Manager (Head of Portfolio Management), HPF/HPC
- 2025: Investment Manager, HPF/HPC
- 2023-2024: Investment Analyst, HPF/HPC
- 2021-2022: Quantitative Developer, HPF/HPC
- 2021: Research Assistant — Information Systems Group, Hasso Plattner Institute
- 2018: Intern — Risk Assurance (Audit & Assurance), PricewaterhouseCoopers
- 2014-2017: Working Student, Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau
- 2015: Intern, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Education
- 2025-now: CFA charterholder
- 2024-now: CAIA charterholder
- 2023: M.Sc. I.T.-Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute
- 2020: B.Sc. I.T.-Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute
- 2017: German A-Level, Gymnasium Gernsheim
- 2013-2014: Foreign Exchange Year, Elm Creek High School
Projects
- 2025-now: HPI Alumni Mentoring Program
- 2021-2022: Wikipedia Cleanup (2 stars), stale data detection techniques for Wikipedia infoboxes
- 2021-2022: pyrepositoryminer (18 stars, 1 fork), a performant and extendable tool to analyze large repositories
- 2019-2020: Hyrise Cockpit (15 stars, 3 forks), a cockpit for self-driving databases
Publications
- Detecting Stale Data in Wikipedia Infoboxes with M. Barth, T. Bleidt, M. Büßemeyer, N. Köhnecke, T. Bleifuß, L. Bornemann, D. Kalashnikov, F. Naumann, and D. Srivastava in Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023, pp. 450–456. EDBT Association.
- Tooling for Time- and Space-Efficient Git Repository Mining with W. Scheibel and J. Döllner in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022, pp. 413–417. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- A Cockpit for the Development and Evaluation of Autonomous Database Systems with J. Kossmann, M. Boissier, A. Dubrawski, C. Mandel, U. Pigorsch, M. Schneider, T. Schniese, M. Sobhani, P. Tsayun, K. Wille, M. Perscheid, M. Uflacker, and H. Plattner in 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021, pp. 2685–2688. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Contact
- Professional: moc.hnaibaf@eciffo
- Personal: moc.hnaibaf@em