- Gerhard Weikum
Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director (and until Aug 2007, had also been the Managing Director) at the
Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPI)in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he is leading the [http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d5/ databases and information systems department] . His current research interests include distributed information systems, P2P computing, database performance optimization (automatic tuning) and self-organization (autonomic computing), and intelligent organization and search of semistructured information. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).Earlier he held positions at
Saarland University inSaarbrücken , Germany, atETH Zurich , Switzerland, at MCC inAustin, Texas ,and he was a visiting senior researcher atMicrosoft Research inRedmond, Washington .He received his diploma and doctoral degrees from the [http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/ University of Darmstadt] , Germany.He currently acts as the President of the [http://www.vldb.org VLDB Endowment] , which organizes the yearly "International Conference on Very Large Databases", one of the most reputable scientific conferences for researchers in the area of database research.
In 2005 the
Association for Computing Machinery appointed Gerhard Weikum a Fellow. The appointment as a [http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm Fellow] is one of the highest honors of the ACM. Weikum has been honored for his groundbreaking 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.The circle of fellows is dominated by outstanding researchers from US elite educational institutions, such as Stanford, Berkeley, or CMU. Since 1993, seven German researchers have been appointed ACM Fellows.
External links
* [http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~weikum Personal Homepage of Gerhard Weikum]
* [http://www.imprs-cs.de/ International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science]
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