Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German

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and

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s researcher.

Career

In 1999, Markl received his

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in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Established in 1868 by King Ludwig II ...

. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. 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

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. Since 2008, he has been

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and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

. Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin. 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. From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of

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. In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment.

Research

Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of

distributed system Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commun ...

s, scalable

data processing Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information. Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an o ...

, and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

Awards and honors

Markl was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2021. His work was honoured with several awards, including: * 2021 ICDE Best Paper Award * 2021 BTW Best Paper Award * 2020 ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award * 2020

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* 2019 EDBT Best Paper Award * 2017 BTW Best Paper Award * 2017 EDBT Best Demonstration Award * 2016 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award * 2014 VLDB Best Paper Award * 2012 IBM Faculty Award * 2012 IBM Shared University Research Grant * 2010 Hewlett Packard Open Innovation Award * 2005 IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award * 2005 IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Markl, Volker Machine learning researchers Database researchers 2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin German computer scientists Living people Technical University of Munich alumni 1971 births