Wolfgang Lehner#
| Membership Number: | 3781 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://wwwdb.inf.tu-dresden.de/lehner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002/10 - NOW full professor and head of database research group - Technische Universität Dresden / Faculty of Computer Science (Database Systems), Dresden, Germany
- 2006/10 - 2020/06 and since 2022/11 Director of the Institute for System Architecture - Technische Universität Dresden / Faculty of Computer Science, Dresden, Germany
- 2012/04 - 2012/07 visiting scientist at SAP Palo Alto Labs, Palo Alto (CA), USA
- 2008/04 - 2008/09 visiting scientist at SAP Netweaver BI, Walldorf, Germany
- 2006/06 - 2006/10 visiting scientist at Microsoft Research, Redmond (WA), USA
- 2000/10 - 2002/03 temporary professor for database technology - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
- 1999/12 - 2002/09 post doctoral researcher at database system group - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany (with breaks)
- 1998/12 - 1999/11 visiting scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose (CA), USA
- 1995/05 - 1998/11 research associate at database system group - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Main-memory database technology for analytical and transactional workloads
- Support of advanced analytics (mining, forecasting, etc.) in database systems
- Support for realtime/righttime-analytics in data-warehouse infrastructures
- Database technology for openData platforms - integration and consumption
Honours and Awards
- Appointed member of the Scientific Commission of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR)
- DFG funding in Reinhart Koselleck Program for outstanding researchers (2021)
- Facebook Next-Generation Data Infrastructure Award (2021)
- Huawei Technologies Awards, DROWSY - Data structures on weak cache-coherent memmory systems (2020)
- SAP award for promotion of research on main memory based database systems (2019)
- ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (2019)
- ACM SIGMOD Distinguished Program Committee Member (2017)
- ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award (2016)
- SAP Innovation Recognition Award for research transfer into SAP HANA (2013)
- IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Award: Data Management in Smart Grids (2012)
- NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award on work in the field of database processing on non-standard HW configurations 2010)
- IBM Faculty Award; on work in the field of Data-Intensive Processes in Service-Oriented Environments (2006)
