Volker Markl
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Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.
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.{{cite book |url=https://d-nb.info/957771010 |title=MISTRAL: processing relational queries using a multidimensional access technique |series=Dissertationen zu Datenbanken und Informationssystemen |year=1999 |publisher=Sankt Augustin: Infix |isbn=9783896014597 |accessdate=2021-11-30}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.dima.tu-berlin.de/menue/team/volker_markl/ |title=Volker Markl |publisher=TU Berlin |accessdate=2021-11-30}} Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin.{{cite web |url=https://www.dfki.de/en/web/about-us/employee/person/voma01 |title=Volker Markl |publisher=German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) |accessdate=2021-11-30}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://bifold.berlin/person/prof-dr-rer-nat-volker-markl/ |title=Volker Markl |publisher=Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of Apache Flink.{{cite web |url=https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/132320961?language=en |title=Stratosphere - Information Management above the Clouds |publisher=German Research Foundation (DFG) |accessdate=2021-11-30}} In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment.{{cite web |url=https://www.vldb.org/trustees.html |title=Board of Trustees |publisher=VLDB Endowment |accessdate=2021-12-02}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/bbaw-mitglieder/mitglied-volker-markl |title=Volker Markl |publisher=Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |accessdate=2022-03-03}}
His work was honoured with several awards, including:
- 2021 ICDE Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=https://icde2021.gr/icde-awards-2021/ |title=ICDE 2021 Best Paper Award |publisher=ICDE |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2021 BTW Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=https://fb-dbis.gi.de/auszeichnungen/btw-best-paper-awards |title=BTW Best Paper Awards |accessdate=2022-05-26}}
- 2020 ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=https://sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sigmod-best-paper-award/ |title=SIGMOD Best Paper Award
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- 2020 ACM Fellow{{cite web |url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/markl_UK78103 |title=Volker Markl |publisher=ACM |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2019 EDBT Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=http://edbticdt2019.inesc-id.pt/?awards_bp_edbt |title=EDBT 2019 Best Paper Award |publisher=EDBT |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2017 BTW Best Paper Award
- 2017 EDBT Best Demonstration Award{{cite web |url=http://edbticdt2017.unive.it/?awards |title=EDBT 2017 Best Paper Award |publisher=EDBT |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2016 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
- 2014 VLDB Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=https://www.vldb.org/2014/awards.html |title=Best Paper Awards |publisher=VLDB |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2012 IBM Faculty Award
- 2012 IBM Shared University Research Grant{{cite web |url=https://idw-online.de/en/news519251 |title=IBM-Preis für Prof. Dr. Volker Markl |publisher=Informationsdienst Wissenschaft |language=de |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2010 Hewlett Packard Open Innovation Award{{cite web |url=https://www.hp.com/us-en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=485107 |title=HP Announces Recipients of Third Annual Innovation Research Awards |publisher=Hewlett Packard |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
- 2005 IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award
- 2005 IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award{{cite web |url=https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=5855 |title=Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Awards |date=9 February 2021 |publisher=IBM |accessdate=2021-11-30}}
References
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External links
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Category:Machine learning researchers
Category:2020 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin
Category:German computer scientists