Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl

Head of Data Engineering Systems

Phone: +49 331 5509-4881
Mail: tilmann.rabl@hpi.de

Short Bio

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).

Publications

Please see our publications page, DBLP, and Google Scholar. We are trying to provide PDFs for all our papers, please feel free to request a PDF of any of our papers that is missing.

Service

These lists summarize selected conference and workshop organization, PC memberships, and review activities for the last 5+ years.

Conference and Workshop Organization

2026: VLDB Workshop Chair, SIGMOD Associate Editor, ICDE Meta Reviewer
2025: SIGMOD Hybrid Chair, VLDB Associate Editor
2024: DEBS PC Chair, ICDE Meta Reviewer
2023: EDBT PhD Workshop Chair, BTW Demo Chair
2022: FGDB Spring Symposium Chair
2021: VLDB PhD Workshop Chair, BTW Demo Chair, DEBS Tutorial Chair
2020: SIGMOD Sponsorship Chair, SIGMOD Demo Chair, DEBS Workshop & Tutorial Chair
2019: SIGMOD Sponsorship Chair, ICPE Awards Chair
2018: DBTest Workshop Chair
2017: BOSS Workshop Chair
2016: BOSS Workshop Chair
2015: BOSS Workshop Chair, WBDB Workshop Chair

Selected PC Memberships

2025: EDBT, DAMON, AIDM, MIDAS, HCDS, BTW Industry, TPCTC
2024: SIGMOD, DEEM, VLDB Demo, DAMON, TPCTC
2023: SIGMOD, CIDR, TPCTC
2022: SIGMOD, PVLDB, EDBT
2021: SIGMOD, BTW, DEBS, NoDMC
2020: PVLDB, DEBS, DEEM, VLDB PhD Workshop
2019: ICPE, EDBT Demo, BTW, DEEM, TPCTC, LWDA
2018: ICPE, TPCTC, DEEM, ICDCS, CIKM
2017: SIGMOD, ICPE, CIKM, TPCTC
2016: SSDBM, ICPE, TPCTC, SCDM
2015: PVLDB, ICPE, TPCTC, SCDM

Awards and Recognition

2025: EDBT Best Experiments and Analysis Paper Award
2024: ICDE Outstanding Meta-Reviewer, SIGMOD Distinguished Reviewer
2022: EDBT Best Paper Award, ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight, VLDB Distinguished Reviewer
2021: ICDE Best Paper Award
2020: SIGMOD Best Paper Award, DEBS Grand Challenge Award & Audience Award, SIGMOD Distinguished Reviewer
2019: EDBT Best Paper Award
2017: EDBT Best Demonstration Award