Thomas Neumann (born 1977
) is a German
computer scientist
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and full professor for ''Data Science and Engineering'' at the
Technical University of Munich
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(TUM).
Education and career
Thomas Neumann finished his studies in
business informatics at the
University of Mannheim
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in 2001
[ and received his doctor's degree in computer science under the supervision of Guido Moerkotte in 2005.]Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
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in Saarbrücken with Gerhard Weikum. During this time, Neumann developed Resource Description Framework, RDF-3X, a system for graph databases. He Habilitation, habilitated in 2010 at Saarland University.[ In the same year, he joined the group for database systems at Technische Universität München, TUM under Alfons Kemper as associate professor.][ In 2017, he became a full professor for ''Data Science and Engineering'', also at Technische Universität München, TUM.][
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Research
His research areas are query optimisation and efficient query processing by just-in-time compilation.
As part of this research, he developed the in-memory database, main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to Tableau Software in 2016, and its successor system Umbra. He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for his work on HyPer.[
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Weblinks
Homepage of Thomas Neumann
indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
HyPer: Hybrid OLTP&OLAP High-Performance Database System
Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance
Awards
* 2021 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB Test of Time Award
* 2021 ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award
* 2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
References
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German computer scientists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
1977 births
Living people
Database researchers