Gerhard Weikum

German database researcher · Germany · On the map · Academics · Born 1957 · age 69

Gerhard Weikum is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department.

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2021Konrad Zuse MedalAward2018Seoul Test of Time AwardAward2016SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations AwardAward2005ACM FellowAward1957Born

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Awards

Konrad Zuse Medal2021

Seoul Test of Time Award2018

SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award2016

ACM Fellow2005

Honorary Doctor of the University of Athens

About this person

His current research interests include transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data and text integration, and the automatic construction of knowledge bases. He is one of the creators of the YAGO knowledge base. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).

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Germany