Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German

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and

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s researcher.

Career

In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of

Rudolf Bayer Rudolf Bayer (born 3 March 1939) is a German computer scientist. He is professor emeritus of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich where he had been employed since 1972. He is noted for inventing three data sorting structures: the B- ...

at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

. His doctoral research led to the development of the

UB-Tree The UB-tree as proposed by Rudolf Bayer and Volker Markl is a balanced tree for storing and efficiently retrieving multidimensional data. It is basically a B+ tree A B+ tree is an m-ary tree with a variable but often large number of childre ...

. From 1997 to 2000, he was research group leader at FORWISS, the Bavarian research center for knowledge-based systems. From 2001 to 2008, he was project leader at the

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. Since 2008, he has been

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and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the

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(DFKI), Berlin. From 2014 to 2020, he was director of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC). From 2018 to 2020, he was co-director of the Berlin Machine Learning Center (BZML). Together with Klaus-Robert Müller he became director of the new Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), after both BBDC and the BZML merged into BIFOLD in 2020. From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of

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. In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment.

Research

Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of

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s, scalable

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, and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

Awards and honors

Markl was elected member of the

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), abbreviated BBAW, is the official academic society for the natural sciences and humanities for the German states of Berlin a ...

in 2021. His work was honoured with several awards, including: * 2021 ICDE Best Paper Award * 2021 BTW Best Paper Award * 2020 ACM

SIGMOD SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases. The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of ...

Best Paper Award * 2020

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* 2019 EDBT Best Paper Award * 2017 BTW Best Paper Award * 2017 EDBT Best Demonstration Award * 2016 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award * 2014 VLDB Best Paper Award * 2012 IBM Faculty Award * 2012 IBM Shared University Research Grant * 2010 Hewlett Packard Open Innovation Award * 2005 IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award * 2005 IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Markl, Volker Machine learning researchers Database researchers Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Technical University of Berlin faculty German computer scientists Living people Technical University of Munich alumni 1971 births