Big Data Analytics

• Erhard Rahm

  Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm studied Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern (Diplom 1984, Promotion 1988, Habilitation 1993). From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the IBM Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. Since 1994 he is a Full Professor for Databases at the University of Leipzig. He spent sabbaticals at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA) and the Australian National University. His current research focusses on Big Data and data integration. He has authored several books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. His research on data integration has been awarded several times, in particular with the renowned 10-year best-paper award of the conference series VLDB (Very Large Databases) and the Influential Paper Award of the conference series ICDE (Int. Conf. on Data Engineering). Prof. Rahm is one of the two scientific coordinators of the German Big Data competence center ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig.

  Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany