
Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Paper accepted at SSDBM
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database...
JWS Article Accepted
Integrating Open Government Data with Stratosphere for more Transparency Arvid Heise and Felix...
LREC Paper Accepted
The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul,...
Daniel Rinser wins award for his masters thesis
IQ Best Master Degree Wettbewerb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informations- und Datenqualität e....
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Tool voidGen released
As part of our winning submission at the 2010 Billion Triple Challenge at the International...
ICDE Paper Accepted
28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Washington, DC, USA Adaptive...

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.
Professional Activities
- Journals
- Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).
- Area editor of Information Systems journal
- Reviewer for CSUR, EJOR, TKDE, IS, IJCIS, AMIS, CACM, TODS, VLDB Journal, Information Sciences, DKE, BMC Bioinformatics, Computer Journal, it, and others.
- Conference organisation
- Demo-chair of EDBT 2012
- Co-Organizer of the German GI FGDB Herbsttreffen 2011
- Co-Chair of the 13th WebDB 2010
- Tutorial chair of EDBT 2010
- Area PC Vice Chair for Data Integration and Interoperability of ICDE 2010 and member of the awards committee
- General chair of the International Conference on Information Quality ICIQ 2009
- Co-Chair of the 5th QDB workshop 2007 (colocated with VLDB)
- Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2006
- Program Chair of the International Conference of Information Quality (ICIQ) 2005.
- Co-Organizer of the BTW Studierendenprogramm 2005
- Organizer of the Humboldt Informatik Gong Shows 2004-2006 (HIGS 1, HIGS 2)
- Co-Organizer of the SIGMOD IQIS Workshop 2004
- Technical Co-Chair of VLDB 2003 in Berlin
- Program committee memberships
- VLDB 2013 Industry and Applications track
- ODBASE 2012
- Workshop on Open Data 2012
- DBSocial at SIGMOD 2012
- ADBIS 2012
- ESWC 2012
- LDOW at WWW 2011 and 2012
- BTW 2011
- Member of the jury of the 28. Bundeswettbewerb Informatik 2010 (BWInf)
- SIGMOD 2011
- DESWeb at ICDE 2011
- DaLi 2011 at ICDE 2011
- ICDE 2011
- CIKM 2010
- Informatik 2010 Workshop "Informationsintegration in Service-Architekturen"
- VLDB 2010 demo track
- SIGMOD 2010 (tutorial track)
- LDOW 2010 at WWW 2010
- DESWebDB 2010 at ICDE 2010
- IIWeb 2009 at IJCAI 2009
- VLDB PhD Workshop 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
- Services Cup 2009 at ICWS 2009
- BTW 2009
- QDB at VLDB 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
- NTII at VLDB 2008 and at ICDE 2010
- CSWDB 2008
- DW 2008
- EDBT 2008
- ICDE 2008 (demo track)
- VLDB 2007
- ICIQ 2001-2004, 2007
- IIWeb 2007 workshop at AAAI 2007
- Member of the SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship Committee
- BTW 2007
- ICDE 2006 and 2007
- NGITS workshop 2006
- IIWeb workshop at WWW 2006
- IQIS workshop at SIGMOD 2006
- CleanDB workshop at VLDB 2006
- DILS 2004 and 2005
- DQCIS 2003
- DEXA 2004
- ICDE/EDBT PhD workshop 2004
- DIQ workshop 2004 and 2005 at CAiSE
- Informatik DQ workshop 2004 and 2005
- XSym 2005 at VLDB
- CIKM 2005 conference and associated WIDM workshop 2005
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
- Dr. Alexander Bilke, Technische Universität Berlin, 2006
- 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


