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Fabian Heseding
Fabian Heseding is Investment Manager (Head of Portfolio Management) at the Hasso Plattner Foundation’s Investment Office, which is responsible for managing the Foundation’s endowment, and at single-family office HPC. Before assuming responsibility as Head of Portfolio Management, he covered the full investment cycle across asset classes for fund investments and direct investments. Fabian also has been responsible for the Investment Office’s quantitative efforts since he joined in 2021. He holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in I.T.-Systems Engineering from the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.
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 (Working Student), HPF/HPC
- 2021: Working Student, Hasso Plattner Institute
- 2018: Intern, 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