Jens Dittrich Email & Phone Number

Jens Dittrich is a Full Professor of Computer Science in the area of Databases, Data Management, and Big Data at Saarland University, Germany. Previous affiliations include U Marburg, SAP AG, and ETH Zurich. He received an Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award at CIDR 2011, a BMBF VIP Grant in 2011, a best paper award at VLDB 2014 (the second ever given to an E&A paper), four CS teaching awards, as well as several presentation awards including a qualification for the interdisciplinary German science slam finals in 2012 and three presentation awards at CIDR (2011, 2013, and 2015). He has been a PC member and area chair/group leader of prestigious international database conferences and journals such as PVLDB/VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, and VLDB Journal. Since 2013 he has been teaching some of his classes on data management as flipped classrooms. See http://datenbankenlernen.de or http://youtube.com/jensdit for a list of freely available videos on database technology in German (introduction to databases) and English (database architectures and implementation techniques). He is also author of a "flipped textbook" on databases. Since 2016 he has been working on a start-up at the intersection of deep learning and databases (http://daimond.ai).His research focuses on fast access to big data including in particular: data analytics on large datasets, main-memory databases, database indexing, reproducability, and deep learning.

Listed skills include Computer Science and Databases.