About Thomas Neumann
Born 1977. Thomas Neumann is a German researcher, computer scientist and university teacher, known for In-memory database and Resource Description Framework.
Education and career
Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics, at the University of Mannheim in 2001. and then worked as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken, with Gerhard Weikum. During this time, Neumann developed RDF-3X, a system for graph databases. He habilitated in 2010 at Saarland University.
As part of this research, he developed the main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to Tableau Software in 2016, and its successor system Umbra. He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for his work on HyPer.
2025 VLDB Best Paper Award
2021 VLDB Test of Time Award
2021 ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award
2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
2014 Early Career Award of the VLDB Conference
1994 International Olympiad in Informatics gold medal
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German computer scientist
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Thomas Neumann was born in 1977.
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Thomas Neumann is a researcher, computer scientist and university teacher.
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Thomas Neumann is known for In-memory database and Resource Description Framework.
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Thomas Neumann is German.
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