Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director at the
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
The Max Planck Institute for Informatics (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik'', abbreviated ''MPI-INF'' or ''MPII'') is a research institute in computer science with a focus on algorithms and their applications in a broad sense. It hosts ...
in
Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data and text integration, and the automatic construction of
knowledge base
A knowledge base (KB) is a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system. The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems, which were the first knowledge-based systems. ...
s. He is one of the creators of the
YAGO knowledge base. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).
Earlier he held positions at
Saarland University
Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in s ...
in Saarbrücken, Germany, at
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, at
MCC in
Austin, Texas
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, and he was a visiting senior researcher at
Microsoft Research in
Redmond, Washington. He received his diploma and doctoral degrees from the
TU Darmstadt, Germany.
He acted as the President of the
VLDB endowment in 2005 and 2006. The endowment organizes the yearly ''International Conference on Very Large Databases'', a scientific conference for researchers in the area of database research.
In 2005 the
Association for Computing Machinery appointed Gerhard Weikum a
fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
, one of the highest honors of the
ACM. Weikum has been honored for his research in the fields of databases and information systems, in particular for his contributions to improve the reliability and the performance of large-scale, distributed information systems. In 2010 he was elected as a fellow of the
Gesellschaft für Informatik
The German Informatics Society (GI) (german: Gesellschaft für Informatik) is a German professional society for computer science, with around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members. It is the biggest organized representation of its kind in the ...
and received a Google Focused Research Award. He received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2011, an ERC Synergy Grant in 2013, and the
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2016.
In 2018 he became a member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founde ...
.
References
External links
Max Planck Institute for Computer Science - databases and information systems departmentPersonal Homepage of Gerhard WeikumInternational Max Planck Research School for Computer ScienceUniversity of DarmstadtVLDB Endowment ACM Fellows Program
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Database researchers
Living people
German computer scientists
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
ETH Zurich faculty
Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Max Planck Institute directors