Wolfgang Lehner (Computer Scientist)
editWolfgang Martin Josef Lehner (*8 January, 1969 in Vilseck) is a German Computer Scientist. Since 2002 he has been a university professor at the Institute for Systems Architecture and Head of the Database Research Group[1] at Technische Universität Dresden.
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editWolfgang Lehner received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing. “with distinction”) in 1998 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The advisor of his dissertation on “Query processing in multidimensional database systems“ was Prof. Hartmut Wedekind. In 2001 he finalized his Habilitation (venia legendi) on the topic “Subscription systems as foundation of omnipresent information systems“ and was awarded Privatdozent at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 1998/99, he joined the Business Intelligence (BI) group at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose (CA) and he was visiting scientist at Microsoft Research in 2004 and 2006. In 2012, he was visiting scientist at SAP Labs, Palo Alto followed by an extended research stay at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
Wolfgang Lehner is an elected member of the Senate Committee on Collaborative Research Centres of DFG (German Research Foundation) and scientific member of the Grants Committee on Collaborative Research Centres of DFG. From 2012 to 2018 Wolfgang Lehner was an elected member of the Review Board on Computer Science of DFG and from 2015 to 2018 he was the spokesman of this Review Board.
Since 2014, Wolfgang Lehner has been member of the board of administration (“Verwaltungsrat”) of the Saxonian State Library (SLUB - Sächsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden). From 2006 to 2014 he was the spokesman of the board of trustees (“Kuratorium”) of SLUB.
As an appointed member he has been involved in Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) since 2014.
In 2021, he was selected for the DFG-funded Reinhart Koselleck Program, [2]which enables outstanding researchers with a proven scientific track record to pursue exceptionally innovative, higher-risk projects.
Publications
editThe dblp Computer Science Bibliography lists more than 500 reviewed research papers in conference proceedings and international journals.
Services for the database research community
editWolfgang Lehner has been a member of all DB-related top-tier conference program committees: SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, EDBT, CIKM, ER, etc. for many years. Also, he serves the community as a reviewer for all DB-related top-tier journals like TKDE, TODS, VLDBJ, etc. He is a reviewer for multiple national and international research organizations and regular member of multiple national and international dissertation, habilitation, and tenure track procedures and is giving support to young researchers in multiple Green Card and O-Visa applications.
Since 2019 Wolfgang Lehner has been serving the community as Managing Director of PVLDB and Head of the PVLDB Advisory Committee. From 2012 to 2019, he was elected member of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees. From 2016 to 2019 he was member of the PVLDB Advisory Committee. He also served as a member of the Editorial Board of VLDB Journal (2005-2011) and is Associate Editor of TODS Journal (since 2018).
Awards
edit2021 Facebook Next-Generation Data Infrastructure Award[3]
2019 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
2017 ACM SIGMOD Distinguished Program Committee Member
2016 ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award
2013 SAP Innovation Recognition Award for research transfer into SAP HANA
2012 IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Award: Data Management in Smart Grids
2010 NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award on work in the field of database processing on non-standard HW configurations
2006 IBM Faculty Award; on work in the field of Data-Intensive Processes in Service-Oriented Environments
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- ^ "GEPRIS". GEPRIS. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Meta Research". Meta Research Website. Retrieved 2022-03-01.