Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann

Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann

Hasso-Plattner-Institut
für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany

Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann

Professor for Information Systems

Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik

 

 

 

Contact information

  • Email: naumann(at)hpi.uni-potsdam.de
  • Tel.: +49 331 5509 280 (Sekretariat)
  • Fax: +49 331 5509 287
  • Room: A.1-13
  • Sprechzeiten (consultation hours): Dienstags 13 - 15 Uhr
  • Erasmus coordinator

Publications

  • Please see the publications page of the entire group or see DBLP
  • Some easy, purely syntactic hints on writing good research papers.

Memberships

  • Member of ACM, GI, and DQIQ.
  • Member of the German Scholars Organization Council (GSO)

Professional Activities

Graduated PhD students

  • As advisor 
    • Dr. Alexander Bilke, Technische Universität Berlin, 2006
      Now: msg Systems AG
    • Prof. Dr. Melanie Herschel (formerly Weis), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2007
      Now: Asssistant Professor at Université Paris Sud
    • Dr. Jens Bleiholder, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam 2010
      Now: OPITZ Consulting, Berlin
    • Dr. Falk Brauer, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam 2010
      Now: SAP Research, Dresden
    • Dr. Armin Roth, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2010
      Now: IBM Böblingen
    • Dr. Mohammed AbuJarour, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam 2011
      Now: SAP Innovation Center Potsdam
  • As reviewer
    • Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, 2005
    • Chokri ben Necib, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007
    • Andreas Thor, Universität Leipzig, 2008
    • Paolo Carreira, Universidade de Lisboa, 2008
    • Katja Hose, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 2009
    • Thomas Kabisch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2011
    • Daniel Warneke, Technische Universität Berlin, 2011

Education

  • 1990-1997 Mathematics and Economics at the University of Technology Berlin; Diploma thesis "Graph-based Algorithms for Query Optimization on Parallel Databases"
  • 2000 Promotion (PhD.), Title of thesis: "Quality-driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems", see HiQIQ project pages

Professional experience

  • 1995-1998 Systhema and Navigo Verlag, electronic publishers, Munich; customer database development and product presentations
  • 1997-2000 Dissertation at the Graduate School in "Distributed Information Systems", Humboldt-University Berlin
  • 1999 Visiting scientist at the database group of Stanford University, California (three months)
  • 2001-2002 PostDoctoral scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center; Clio project (schema matching, schema mapping and data transformation)
  • 2003-2006 Assistant professor ("Juniorprofessor") at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • since 2006 Full professor at Hasso Plattner Institute, Chair of Information Systems
  • 2008-2009 Visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center (6 months)

Awards

  • Individual awards
    • GI Dissertationspreis 2000, awarded annually by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German association for computer sciences) for the best computer science PhD. thesis.
    • IBM Research Division Award, 2002
  • Major Grants
    • DFG Nachwuchsforschergruppe 2003
    • IBM SUR Grant, 2007
    • IBM CAS Grant, 2008
    • DFG Forschergruppe 2010
    • IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award 2010
  • Awards by students and group awards
    • 1st place at IEEE Services Cup 2008
    • 1st place for Jan Hegewald at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2008
    • 3rd place at IEEE Services Cup 2009
    • 1st place Billion Triples Challenge at ISWC 2010
    • 3rd place at INEX Web Service Discovery Track 2010
    • 1st place for Uwe Draisbach at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2010
    • Honorable mention at iSemantics Triplification Challenge 2010
    • Christoph Böhm receives IBM PhD student fellowship 2011