Felix Naumann

Contact information

• Email: felix.naumann@hpi.de
• Tel.: +49 331 5509 280 (assistant)
• Room: F-2.03
• Consultation hours: open door or contact office-naumann@hpi.de for appointments
• Coordinator for the HPI Data & AI Cluster
• Speaker of the Research School on Information and Data Engineering (IDE)

Publications

• Please see the publications page of our group or see DBLP or Google Scholar. 
• Some easy, purely syntactic hints on writing good research papers.

Short biography

• 2024/5 Visiting Academic at UQ's Centre for Information Resilience in Brisbane (7 months)
• 2020 Academic Fellow at SAP's Innovation Center in Newport Beach (7 months)
• since 2019 Speaker of the HPI Research School "Data Science and Engineering"
• 2017 - 2019 Dean of Studies / Studiendekan, Digital Engineering Fakultät
• 2016 - 2017 Visiting Researcher at AT&T Research (6 months)
• 2012 - 2013 Visiting Principal Scientist at QCRI (7 months)
• 2008 - 2009 Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center (6 months)
• since 2006 Full Professor at Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Postdam
• 2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor") at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2001 - 2002 Postdoctoral Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center
• 1998 - 2000 PhD student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 1991 - 1997 Diploma in mathematics at University of Technology Berlin

Invited talks

• Keynote at ADBIS 2025
• Keynote at ADC 2024
• Keynote at the SIGMOD GUIDE-AI 2024 workshop
• Keynote at the ICDE DataPlat 2024 workshop
• Panelist at SIGMOD 2023 Panel on Personal Data for Personal Use
• Keynote at Workshop on Data-Centric AI 2021
• Keynote at CAiSE 2021
• Keynote at EDBT 2021 (YouTube)
• Keynote at the ISWC PROFILES workshop 2020
• Keynote at the ECML/PKDD Data Integration and Applications Workshop (DINA) 2019
• Keynote at the DaQuaTa International workshop 2017
• Keynote at the ESWC Linked Data Quality workshop (LDQ) 2015
• Panelist at the ICSOC 2013 Panel on Big Data and Services
• Invited talk at the 2013 Symposium on Big Data (FG-DB Jahrestreffen)
• Keynote at the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) 2012
• Keynote at the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) 2012
• Keynote at the Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM) 2011
• Keynote at the International Workshop on Business intelligencE and the WEB (BEWEB) 2011
• Invited talk at the IEEE New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC) 2010
• Invited talk at OpEN.SC Symposium, Charité Berlin, 2009
• Invited talk at RioInfo 2008
• Invited talk at BTW workshop on Schema and Metadatamanagement, 2007
• Keynote at the Australasian Conference on Information Quality (AusIQ) 2007

Professional activities

• Distinguished Member of ACM (member since 1998)
• Member of GI (since 2003)
  • Speaker of the information systems and database section of the German computer science association - Fachbereich DBIS der GI and member of the GI steering committee (since 2022)
  • Speaker of the database group of the German computer science association - Fachgruppe Datenbanken der GI (2017 - 2022)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment (2018 - 2023)
  • Member of the PVLDB Advisory Board (since 2019-2025)
  • Member of the VLDB conference strategy committee (since 2020)
• Journals
  • Editor-in-Chief for JDIQ (since 2023)
  • Editor-in-Chief for PVLDB vol. 14
  • Editor of Datenbank-Spektrum (since 2018)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Journal (2015 - 2019)
  • Area Editor of Information Systems Journal (2009 - 2015)
  • Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality JDIQ (2012 - 2015)
  • Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality JDIQ (2006 - 2012)
  • Reviewer for CSUR, EJOR, TKDE, IS, JDIQ, IJCIS, AMIS, CACM, TODS, VLDB Journal, Information Sciences, DKE, BMC Bioinformatics, KAIS, SIGMOD Record, SIGMIS, Computer Journal, it, JODS, and many others.
• Conference organization
  • Program Co-Chair for EDBT 2027
  • Area Chair for ICDE 2026
  • Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar "Multimodal Data Quality – Human, Computational, and Institutional Perspectives", 2026
  • Local Arrangements Co-Chair for SIGMOD 2025
  • Associate editor for VLDB 2025 (demos)
  • Tutorial co-chair for EDBT 2025
  • PhD workshop co-chair for EDBT 2024
  • Tutorial Co-Chair for ICDE 2024
  • Associate Chair for ICDE 2023
  • Demo Co-Chair for EDBT 2023
  • PC-Chair for VLDB 2021
  • Vice-Chair for ICDE 2020
  • Associate Editor for VLDB 2020
  • Tutorial Co-Chair for SIGMOD 2020
  • Co-Program Chair for BTW 2019
  • Associate Editor for VLDB 2018
  • Tutorial Co-chair for ICDE 2018
  • Industry Co-Chair of VLDB 2017
  • Co-Chair of FGDB Herbsttreffen 2016 at LWDA 2016
  • Associate Editor for Information Integration for VLDB 2015
  • Demo-chair of EDBT 2012
  • Co-Organizer of the German GI FGDB Herbsttreffen 2011
  • Co-Chair of the 13th WebDB 2010
  • Tutorial chair of EDBT 2010
  • Area PC Vice Chair for Data Integration and Interoperability of ICDE 2010 and member of the awards committee
  • General chair of the International Conference on Information Quality ICIQ 2009
  • Co-Chair of the 5th QDB workshop 2007 (colocated with VLDB)
  • Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2006
  • Program Chair of the International Conference of Information Quality (ICIQ) 2005.
  • Co-Organizer of the BTW Studierendenprogramm 2005
  • Organizer of the Humboldt Informatik Gong Shows 2004-2006 (HIGS 1, HIGS 2)
  • Co-Organizer of the SIGMOD IQIS Workshop 2004
  • Technical Co-Chair of VLDB 2003 in Berlin

Program committee memberships

Conferences

• VLDB 2007, 2010 (demo track), 2013 (industry track), 2015 (associate editor), 2017 (industry chair), 2018 (associate editor), 2020 (associate editor), 2021 (co-PC-chair), 2026
• SIGMOD 2010 (tutorials), 2011, 2015 (tutorials), 2016, 2018 (demo track), 2023, 2024, 2026 (ethics committee), 2027 (ethics committee & demo meta-reviewer)
• ICDE 2006, 2007, 2008 (demo track) 2010 (area chair), 2011, 2014, 2018 (tutorial chair), 2019, 2020 (vice chair), 2023 (associate chair)
• EDBT 2008, 2010 (tutorial chair), 2012 (demo chair), 2014, 2019, 2022 (industry track), 2023 (demo co-chair)
• CIKM 2005, 2010, 2018 (senior PC member)
• ICIQ 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (program chair) 2007, 2009 (general chair), 2013, 2014
• BTW 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 (program co-chair), 2023
• NGISE 2026
• ISWC 2026
• LWDA 2017, 2018, 2020
• IEEE Big Data 2015, 2025
• WebConf 2022 (industry track)
• ECIS (associate editor) 2021 - 2026
• ODBASE 2012
• ADBIS 2012
• ESWC 2012

Workshops

• Good-Data 2025
• Dearing 2024 at ECMLPKDD
• DEco 2022, 2023, 2024
• aiDM 2022, 2023
• DEEM 2018, 2019
• SEA Data 2020
• DINA workshop at ICDM 2014 and 2015
• RW-BPMS workshop at CAiSE 2015
• LDQ workshop at Semantics 2014
• DSMM 2014 and 2016
• BDA 2013
• WebDB at SIGMOD 2010 (co-chair), 2013, 2014, 2015 (outstanding reviewer award), 2018
• Workshop on Open Data 2012 and 2013
• DBSocial at SIGMOD 2012
• LDOW at WWW 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
• DaLi 2011 at ICDE 2011
• Informatik 2010 Workshop "Informationsintegration in Service-Architekturen"
• DESWebDB at ICDE, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015
• IIWeb 2006 at WWW and 2009 at IJCAI
• VLDB PhD Workshops 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
• Services Cup 2009 at ICWS 2009
• QDB at VLDB 2007 (chair), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016
• NTII at VLDB 2008 and at ICDE 2010
• CSWDB 2008
• DW 2008
• IIWeb 2007 workshop at AAAI
• NGITS workshop 2006
• IQIS workshop at SIGMOD 2006
• CleanDB workshop at VLDB 2006
• DILS 2004, 2005, 2006 (co-chair)
• DQCIS workshop 2003
• DEXA 2004
• ICDE/EDBT PhD workshop 2004
• DIQ workshop 2004 and 2005 at CAiSE
• Informatik DQ workshop 2004 and 2005
• XSym 2005 at VLDB
• WIDM workshop at CIKM 2005

Other

• Member of the jury for the BTW 2025 Data Science Challenge
• Member of the SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship Committee
• Member of the SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Committee 2018 and 2019
• Member of the jury of the 28. Bundeswettbewerb Informatik 2010 (BWInf)

Graduated PhD students

• As advisor (in reverse chronological order)
  1. Dr. Sebastian Schmidl, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2025
     co-advised with Thorsten Papenbrock, last seen as Software Engineer at Snowflake
  2. Dr. Phillip Wenig, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2024
     co-advised with Thorsten Papenbrock, last seen as Data Scientist at Frequenz
  3. Dr. Mazhar Hameed, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2024
  4. Dr. Leon Bornemann-Paulus, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2024
     last seen as IT Consultant for Data Engineering & Data Science at Netlight
  5. Dr. Gerardo Vitagliano, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2023
     last seen as Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT
  6. Dr. Nitisha Jain, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2023
     co-advised with Ralf Krestel, last seen as Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College, London
  7. Dr. Uwe Draisbach, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022
     Last seen as freelancing SAP consultant
  8. Dr. Lan Jiang, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022
     last seen as Data Scientist at StepStone
  9. Dr. Tim Repke, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022
     co-advised with Ralf Krestel, last seen as PostDoc at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
  10. Dr. Konstantina Lazaridou, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2021
      co-advised with Ralf Krestel, last seen as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ella Media AG
  11. Dr. Michael Loster, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2021
      last seen as Founding Engineer at Noetica AI
  12. Dr. Julian Risch, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020
      co-advised with Ralf Krestel, last seen as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at deepset
  13. Dr. Ioannis Koumarelas, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020
      last seen as Data Scientist at Veeva Systems
  14. Prof. Dr. Hazar Harmouch, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020
      last seen as Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
  15. Dr. Sebastian Kruse, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018
      last seen as Software Engineer at Google, Munich
  16. Dr. Zhe Zuo, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018
      last seen as Senior Data Scientist at Siemens, Berlin
  17. Dr. Toni Grütze, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018
      last seen as independent software developer
  18. Dr. Tobias Zieger (formerly Vogel), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018
      last seen as Senior Software Engineer at Sereene
  19. Dr. Thorsten Papenbrock, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2017
      GI DBIS Best Dissertation Award; last seen as full professor at Marburg University
  20. Dr. Arvid Heise, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2015
      last seen as Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
  21. Dr. Alexander Albrecht, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014
      last seen at: Co-founder bakdata
  22. Dr. Johannes Lorey, Hasso  Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014
      last seen at: USU AG, Möglingen
  23. Prof. Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014
      Awarded for best dissertation at University of Potsdam in 2014
      last seen as full professor at TU Berlin
  24. Dr. Christoph Böhm, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013
      last seen as Data Engineer and Co-founder of bakdata
  25. Dr. Jana Bauckmann, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013
      last seen at: Wissenschaftliches Institut der AOK
  26. Dr. Dustin Lange, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013
      last seen at: Amazon, Berlin
  27. Dr. Mohammed AbuJarour, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2011
      last seen as full professor at XU Exponential University Potsdam
  28. Dr. Armin Roth, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2010
      last seen as Senior Bioinformatician at CureVac
  29. Dr. Falk Brauer, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2010
      last seen as SVP at Zilliant
  30. Dr. Jens Bleiholder, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2010
      last seen at: Opitz Consulting, Berlin
  31. Prof. Dr. Melanie Herschel (formerly Weis), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2007
      last seen as associate professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore
  32. Dr. Alexander Bilke (co-supervision with Herbert Weber), Technische Universität Berlin, 2006
      last seen as lead business consultant at msg Systems AG
• As reviewer
  • Ralph Peeters, Universität Mannheim, 2025
  • Christos Koutras, Technische Universiteit Delft, 2024
  • Larissa Capobianco Shimomura, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2024
  • Tommaso Teofili, Universita Roma Tre, 2022
  • Stefano Cirillo, University of Salerno, 2022
  • Alieh Saeedi, University of Leipzig, 2021
  • Fabian Fier, HU Berlin, 2021
  • Jan-Christoph Kalo, TU Braunschweig, 2021
  • Elvis Koci, TU Dresden and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2020
  • Larysa Visengeriyeva, Technische Universität Berlin, 2020
  • Kashyap Popat, Saarland University, 2019
  • Jeffrey Fischer, Australian National University, 2019
  • Erkang Zhu, University of Toronto, 2019
  • Loredana Caruccio, University of Salerno, 2018
  • Thomas Rebele, Télécom ParisTech, 2018
  • Astrid Rheinländer, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2017
  • Dimitra Papadimitriou, University of Trento, 2017
  • Daniel Fleischhacker, Universität Mannheim, 2015
  • Ralf Heese, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2015
  • Amrapali Zaveri, Universität Leipzig, 2015
  • Lars Kolb, Universität Leipzig, 2014
  • Xie Xiaoheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2012
  • Daniel Warneke, Technische Universität Berlin, 2011
  • Thomas Kabisch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2011
  • Katja Hose, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 2009
  • Paolo Carreira, Universidade de Lisboa, 2008
  • Andreas Thor, Universität Leipzig, 2008
  • Chokri ben Necib, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007
  • Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, 2005
• For a list of graduated Master students, see here.

Education

• 1990-1997 Mathematics and Economics at the University of Technology Berlin; Diploma thesis "Graph-based Algorithms for Query Optimization on Parallel Databases"
• 2000 Promotion (PhD.), Title of thesis: "Quality-driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems", published by Springer

Awards

• Individual awards
  • GI Dissertationspreis 2000, awarded annually by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German association for computer sciences) for the best computer science PhD. thesis.
  • IBM Research Division Award, 2002
  • Preis des Fachschaftsrats IT Systems Engineering 2014
  • Fakultätspreis für herausragende Lehre 2015 der Math.-Nat. Fakultät der Universität Potsdam
  • Distinguished Associate Editor Award - VLDB 2018
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award - ICDE 2019
  • Distinguished ACM member since 2021
  • Distinguished Reviewer Award - SIGMOD 2023
  • Distinguished Area Chair Award - ICDE 2026
• Major Grants and Funding
  • DFG Nachwuchsforschergruppe 2003 - 2008
  • IBM SUR Grant, 2007
  • Schufa, 2007-2011
  • IBM CAS Grant, 2008-2009
  • DFG Forschergruppe Stratosphere 2010-2016
  • IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award 2010
• Awards by students and group awards
  • 1st place at IEEE Services Cup 2008
  • 1st place for Jan Hegewald at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2008
  • 3rd place at IEEE Services Cup 2009
  • 1st place Billion Triples Challenge at ISWC 2010
  • 3rd place at INEX Web Service Discovery Track 2010
  • 1st place for Uwe Draisbach at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2010
  • 1st place for Daniel Rinser at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2011
  • Honorable mention at iSemantics Triplification Challenge 2010
  • Christoph Böhm receives IBM PhD student fellowship in 2011 and in 2012
  • Runner up for Best Paper Award at BTW 2013
  • Best workshop papers at USEWOD 2013, PROFILES 2014, and Know@LOD 2014
  • Best Student Paper Award at CIKM 2014
  • Dissertationspreis der Universität Potsdam 2014 für Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan
  • TDWI Award 2015, 1st place for Markus Freitag (Master thesis)
  • 1st place at the Ideenwettbewerb IT-Gipfel for "Data Profiling with Metanome", 2016
  • Best paper award at ICADL 2018
  • GI DBIS Best Dissertation Award 2019 for Thorsten Papenbrock
  • Better World Award UP by Julian Risch 2021
  • Best paper award at EDBT 2024 for our Tasheeh paper