Thomas Neumann (born 1977) is a German

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and full professor for ''Data Science and Engineering'' at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

(TUM).

Education and career

Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics at the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Academy of Sciences'', ...

in 2001 and received his doctor's degree in computer science under the supervision of Guido Moerkotte in 2005. He then worked as a senior researcher at the

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in Saarbrücken with

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. During this time, Neumann developed RDF-3X, a system for graph databases. He

habilitated Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

in 2010 at

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. In the same year, he joined the group for database systems at TUM under

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as associate professor. In 2017, he became a full professor for ''Data Science and Engineering'', also at TUM.

Research

His research areas are

query optimisation Query optimization is a feature of many relational database management systems and other databases such as NoSQL and graph databases. The query optimizer attempts to determine the most efficient way to execute a given query by considering the p ...

and efficient query processing by

just-in-time compilation In computing, just-in-time (JIT) compilation (also dynamic translation or run-time compilations) is a way of executing computer code that involves compiler, compilation during execution of a program (at run time (program lifecycle phase), run tim ...

. As part of this research, he developed the main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to

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in 2016, and its successor system Umbra. He was awarded the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

by the

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for his work on HyPer.

Weblinks

Homepage of Thomas Neumann

indexed in the

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(DBLP)
HyPer: Hybrid OLTP&OLAP High-Performance Database System

Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance

Awards

* 2021 VLDB Test of Time Award * 2021 ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award * 2020

* 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant * 2014 Early Career Award of the VLDB Conference

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Neumann, Thomas German computer scientists Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners 1977 births Living people Database researchers