Tilmann Rabl holds the chair for Data Engineering Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute and is Professor at the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam. He is also cofounder and scientific director of the startup bankmark. Tilmann Rabl received his PhD at the University of Passau in 2011. He spent 4 years at the University of Toronto as a postdoc in the Middleware Systems Research Group (MSRG). From 2015 to 2019, he was senior researcher and visiting professor at the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) group at Technische Universität Berlin and Vice Director of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data (IAM) Group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).