Outstanding Research Collaboration Award for Prof. Rahm

Microsoft Research, one of the world-leading research organizations in computer science, has recognized professor Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, with an Outstanding Collaborator Award. He is one from among 32 academics from around the world who are being honored for their contributions to the direction, visibility and value of Microsoft’s research and products. Rick Rashid, the founder and former head of Microsoft Research, has announced the award recipients at the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Redmond on July 13, 2016.

VLDB 2011 Ten Year Best Paper Award

Prof. Erhard Rahm and his collaborators Phil Bernstein and Jayant Madhavan received the VLDB 2011 10-Year Best Paper Award for their VLDB 2001 paper “Generic Schema Matching with Cupid” that has had significant industrial and academic impact on the important field of data integration. The winners received the prestigious award and provided a keynote on Sep.

Influential Paper Award for two computer scientists from Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm from the University of Leipzig and his former Ph.D. student Sergey Melnik will receive this year's Influential Paper Award of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). Dr. Melnik, who now works for Google, received his Ph.D. in 2004 with distinction at the Graduate School Knowledge Representation of the University of Leipzig. His dissertation was awarded with a prize by the German society for computer science. Prof. Rahm teaches and conducts research on databases at the Institute of computer science and supervised his thesis.

Top-Studenten 2022 ausgezeichnet

Im Dez. 2022 zeichnete Prof. Rahm im KI-Zentrum ScaDS.AI der Universität Leipzig drei Studierende aus, die exzellente Leistungen im Informatik-Gebiet Datenbanken/Informationssysteme zeigten.

Welcome to the new website of the Database Group!

This page is currently under development and will be the new website of the Database Group within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig.

You can navigate the website by using the navigation bar above. Please keep in mind this page is still under construction and changes are possible at any time. Contents of pages may contain dummy data. Please refer in doubt to the old, but still operational website: https://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/

Welcome to the new website of the Database Group!

This page is currently under development and will be the new website of the Database Group within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig.

You can navigate the website by using the navigation bar above. Please keep in mind this page is still under construction and changes are possible at any time. Contents of pages may contain dummy data. Please refer in doubt to the old, but still operational website: https://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/