Thomas Neumann

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]

Thomas Neumann
Neumann in 2023
Born	1977[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

Education and career

Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics, at the University of Mannheim in 2001.^[2] He received his doctor's degree in computer science under the supervision of Guido Moerkotte, in 2005,^[3] and 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]

External links

• Homepage of Thomas Neumann
• Publications indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (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^[9]
• 2021 ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award^[10]
• 2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize^[2]
• 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant^[11]
• 2014 Early Career Award of the VLDB Conference^[12]
• 1994 International Olympiad in Informatics gold medal^[13]