Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kai-Uwe Sattler

Technische Universität Ilmenau
Fakultät für Informatik und Automatisierung
FG Datenbanken und Informationssysteme
Postfach 100 565
D-98684 Ilmenau

Phone: +49 (0) 3677 69 4577
FAX: +49 (0) 3677 69 4541
PGP: public key
E-Mail: kus[at]tu-ilmenau.de
Office: CC 410

Short CV

Kai-Uwe Sattler leads the Database and Information Systems group at the Faculty of Computer Science and Automation of the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. He received his Diploma (M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (magna cum laude) from the same university, Germany.
From 1998 to September 2003 he was a member of the Database research group (head: Prof. Gunter Saake) at the University of Magdeburg. From October 2001 until March 2002, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at the UC Davis, U.S.A. During summer term 2002 he held a replacement professorship at the TU Dresden and during winter term 2002/3 at the University of Halle.
In June 2003, he received his Habilitation (venia legendi) in Computer Science from the University of Magdeburg. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Automation of the TU Ilmenau in October 2003 as Professor. Since February 2009, he is the Vice Dean of the faculty.

Research Interests

• Semantic interoperability: information integration & quality, peer data management
• Large-scale distributed data management
• Autonomous database systems and self tuning

Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Articles, Reports, etc.

Complete list of publications
List of publications at DBLP

Recent Talks

	Quality of service and predictability in DBMS. Tutorial @ EDBT 2008, Nantes, France (together with Wolfgang Lehner).
	Self-*-Techniken in Datenbankmanagementsystemen: Grundlagen, Techniken, Systemüberblick, Tutorial at the 11. BTW-Tutorientage 2007, Aachen (in german).
	Self-Tuning in DBMS: Techniken und aktuelle Systemunterstützung, DB-Stammtisch an der HTW Dresden, November, 2006.
	Information Quality: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Use, Tutorial at EDBT 2006, Munich, Germany (together with Felix Naumann).
	Large Scale Query Processing in Structured P2P Systems, Invited Talk at EFPL Lausanne, December 2005.
	Query Processing in P2P Systems, Ringvorlesung, Department for Computer Science, Humboldt University Berlin (in german).
	Data Quality - a Database Perspective, Tutorial at the 10. BTW-Tutorientage 2005, Karlsruhe (in german).

Current Professional Activities

• PC Member of the WWW2010 Workshop "Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010)", Raleigh, NC, April 2010.
• PC Member of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Heraklion, Greece, June 2010.
• Co-Chair (together with Shivnath Babu) of 5th International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB'10), Long Beach, CA, March 2010.
• Co-Organizer (together with Goetz Graefe, Arnd-Christian König, Harumi Kuno, Volker Markl) of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Robust Query Processing, October 2010.
• Co-Organizer (together with Karl Aberer, Avigdor Gal, Manfred Hauswirth, Amit Sheth) of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks, 2010.
• PC Member of 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2010), Singapore, August 2010.
• PC Member of 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Los Angeles, CA, 2010.
• PC Member of 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), Kansas City, Missouri, USA, May 2010.
• PC Co-Chair of 14th Int. Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) , Potsdam, Germany, November 2009. 
• PC Member of 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Los Angeles, CA, 2010. 
• Co-Editor of the German Database Journal "Datenbank-Spektrum". 

See my complete list of professional activities.