Jens Dittrich

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 is also associated to CISPA (Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability). 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); two CS teaching awards in 2011 and 2013; 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 of prestigious international database conferences such as PVLDB/VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In addition, he has been an area chair at PVLDB, a group leader at SIGMOD, and an associate editor at VLDBJ.

His research focuses on fast access to big data including in particular: data analytics on large datasets, main-memory databases, database indexing, and reproducibility (see https://github.com/uds-datalab/PDBF).

Since 2013 he has been teaching some of his classes on data management as flipped classrooms (aka inverted classrooms). See:

http://datenbankenlernen.de ,

http://youtube.com/jensdit .

for a list of freely available videos on database technology in German and English (about 80 videos in German and 80 in English so far).