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: Z 3025 (Zuse building) NEW!
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. Kai-Uwe Sattler is currently the Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Automation. He previously served as vice dean of the same department.
Research Interests
- Semantic interoperability: information integration & quality, peer data management
- Large-scale distributed data management
- Autonomous database systems and self tuning
Current Professional Activities
- Workshop Chair of 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2013), Genoa, Italy.
- Demo Program Chair of 15. GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2013), Magdeburg, Germany, 2013.
- PC Member of 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), Heraklion, Crete, 2012.
- PC Member of 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, MA, 2012.
- PC Member of 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, 2012.
- PC Member of the 11th Int. Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2012), Roma, Italy, 2012.
- PC Member of 7th Int. Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2012), Washington, DC, 2012.
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