Gerhard Weikum#
| Membership Number: | 3131 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~weikum |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2003 Director and Scientific Member at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
- 1994 - 2003 Professor at Saarland University in Saarbruecken
- 1990 - 1994 Professor at ETH Zurich
- 1989 - 1990 ETH Zurich Zurich
- 1988 - 1989 MCC in Austin
- 1987 Research Associate and Postdoc at TU Darmstadt
- 1986 doctoral dissertation at TU Darmstadt
Fields of Scholarship
- Distributed information systems
- Database performance optimization (automatic tuning) and self-organization (autonomic computing)
- DB & IR integration (database systems & information retrieval)
- Information extraction and knowledge harvesting
Honours and Awards
- ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award
- Google Focused Research Award
- Fellow of the German Computer Society (GI)
- Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)\
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- ACM Fellow 2005
- CIDR 2005 Timeless Idea Award
- VLDB 10-Year Award 2002
- Best Paper Awards at ACM Conferences CIKM 2010, CIKM 2006, SIGMOD 1998 (with co-authors)
- Best Demo Award at WWW 2011 (with co-authors)
