Gerhard Weikum

Gerhard Weikum (2018)

Gerhard Weikum (born September 28, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German computer scientist and currently one of five directors at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken.

Life

Weikum completed his computer science studies at the TU Darmstadt in 1986 with a doctorate. In 1987 he was a university assistant or postdoc at the TU Darmstadt, from 1988 to 1989 he worked at MCC in Austin and from 1989 to 1990 at the ETH Zurich . From 1990 to 1994 he taught at the ETH in Zurich as a professor of computer science and then moved to the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where he worked until 2003. Since 2003 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and since 2004 Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science .

Research priorities

• Distributed information systems, peer-to-peer systems
• Performance optimization (automatic tuning) and self-organization (autonomic computing) of database systems
• Intelligent organization of and search in semi-structured information

Awards and prizes (selection)

• ERC Synergy Grant 2013, together with Peter Druschel , Michael Backes and Rupak Majumdar
• ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award 2011
• ACM Fellow 2005
• CIDR 2005 Timeless Idea Award
• VLDB 10-Year Award 2002
• ACM SIGMOD Conference 1998 Best Paper Award (joint paper with David Lomet )
• Member of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (Acatech)
• 2011 member of the Academia Europaea
• 2018 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Web links

• Member entry by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 14, 2018.
• Homepage of Gerhard Weikum at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
• International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of ERC Grants 2013. Accessed March 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ ACM Fellow 2005
4. ↑ CIDR 2005 Timeless Idea Award ( memento of the original from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ VLDB 10-Year Award 2002
6. ^ Membership directory: Gerhard Weikum. Academia Europaea, accessed July 26, 2017 .