Volker Markl

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Volker Markl
Born1971 (age 52–53)
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Doctoral advisor Rudolf Bayer

Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.

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Career

In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. [1] From 1997 to 2000, he was research group leader at FORWISS, the Bavarian research center for knowledge-based systems. From 2001 to 2008, he was project leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley. Since 2008, he has been full professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at Technische Universität Berlin. [2] Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin. [3] From 2014 to 2020, he was director of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC). From 2018 to 2020, he was co-director of the Berlin Machine Learning Center (BZML). Together with Klaus-Robert Müller he became director of the new Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), after both BBDC and the BZML merged into BIFOLD in 2020. [4]

From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of Apache Flink. [5] In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment. [6]

Research

Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems, scalable data processing, and machine learning.

Awards and honors

Markl was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2021. [7]

His work was honoured with several awards, including:

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References

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  2. ↑ "Volker Markl". TU Berlin. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Volker Markl". German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  4. ↑ "Volker Markl". Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "Stratosphere - Information Management above the Clouds". German Research Foundation (DFG). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Board of Trustees". VLDB Endowment. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Volker Markl". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "ICDE 2021 Best Paper Award". ICDE. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "BTW Best Paper Awards" . Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "SIGMOD Best Paper Award". ACM SIGMOD. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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  12. ↑ "EDBT 2019 Best Paper Award". EDBT. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  13. ↑ "EDBT 2017 Best Paper Award". EDBT. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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  16. ↑ "HP Announces Recipients of Third Annual Innovation Research Awards". Hewlett Packard. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  17. ↑ "Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Awards". IBM. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.


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