Christian S. Jensen

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Christian S. Jensen
Born1963
Vester Hassing, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Alma mater Aalborg University
OccupationProfessor
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Christian S. Jensen (born 1963) is a Danish computer scientist who is a professor at Aalborg University.

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Jensen's research focuses on temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal, geo-textual, and multidimensional data; data management, analytics, machine learning; data models, query languages, database design, query and update processing and optimization, and indexing. [1]

Education

Jensen obtained his bachelor's degrees in mathematics (1985) and computer science (1986) and a master's degree in computer science (1988) at Aalborg University. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maryland (USA) and defended it at Aalborg in 1991. [2] In 2000, he obtained the Danish Dr. Techn. degree from Aalborg . [1] [3]

Career

Jensen has been a visiting scholar (1991–1992), visiting associate professor (1994–1995), and visiting professor (1999) at the University of Arizona. He has also been a visiting scientist at Google in Mountain View, California (2008–2009). From 2001 to 2011, he was Professor II at University of Agder in Norway; and from 2010 to 2013, he was professor at Aarhus University. [4]

Jensen was a distinguished visiting professor at Sa Shixuan International Research Center for Big Data Management and Analytics, Renmin University of China (2012–2017) [5] and honorary professor at Renmin (2013–2016) [6] and Cardiff University, Department of Computer Science (2001–2006). [7]

Jensen is an ACM Fellow (2011) [8] and an IEEE Fellow (2008). [9] He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2001-), [10] the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2010-), [11] and Academia Europaea (2013-). [12] Jensen is president of the steering committee of the Swiss National Research Program on Big Data (2015–2021). [13]

In Norway, Jensen chairs the scientific advisory board of NorwAI, the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (2020-); [14] [15] and in Germany, he serves on the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken (2019–2023). [16] Finally, he serves on the board of directors of VILLUM FONDEN (since 2018). [2]

Jensen has been editor-in-chief for The VLDB Journal (2008–2014) [17] and ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2014–2020). [18]

Awards

Publications

Christian S. Jensen has published over 500 publications and is cited frequently. [25]

Selected publications

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