Thomas Neumann

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Thomas Neumann
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Born1977 [1]
Nationality German
Alma mater University of Mannheim [2]
Known for RDF-3X
in-memory databases
Awards Leibniz Prize [2]
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Technical University of Munich
Saarland University
Thesis Efficient generation and execution of DAG-structured query graphs [3]  (2005)
Doctoral advisor Guido Moerkotte

Thomas Neumann (born 1977 [1] ) is a German computer scientist and full professor for Data Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). [4]

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Education and career

Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics at the University of Mannheim in 2001 [2] and received his doctor's degree in computer science under the supervision of Guido Moerkotte in 2005. [3] He then worked as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken with Gerhard Weikum. During this time, Neumann developed RDF-3X, [5] a system for graph databases. He habilitated in 2010 at Saarland University. [1] In the same year, he joined the group for database systems at TUM under Alfons Kemper as associate professor. [1] In 2017, he became a full professor for Data Science and Engineering, also at TUM. [2]

Research

His research areas are query optimisation and efficient query processing by just-in-time compilation. [6] As part of this research, he developed the main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to Tableau Software in 2016, [7] and its successor system Umbra. [8] He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for his work on HyPer. [2]

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