Head of the Research Department Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data
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Volker Markl is both Chief Scientist and Head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). In addition, Dr. Markl is the director of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), which was founded through the merger of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC) and the Berlin Center for Machine Learning (BZML). At the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) he is Full Professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group (DIMA).
His current research interests include novel hardware architectures for information management, scalable processing and optimization of declarative data analysis programs, data infrastructures, end-to-end machine learning, information marketplaces, technological enablers for responsible data management, and scalable data science, including graph mining, text mining, and machine learning.
2014 – 2018 (exit) Co-founder and Advisor, data Artisans, Berlin, Germany (Acquired by Alibaba)
2010 – 2016 (exit) Advisor, Parstream, Cologne, Germany, 2010 – 2016 (Acquired by Cisco)
207 publications (Citation h-index: 44) and 33 Keynote Lectures
The idea of the ExDRa project is to investigate suitable system
support for the exploratory data science process on heterogeneous and distributed
raw data sources and to provide it as part of a…
Goals
In order to optimally prepare industry, science and the society in Germany and Europe for the global Big Data trend, highly coordinated activities in research, teaching, and technology transfer…
The aim of the project SePiA.Pro is to develop an open and standardised service platform for optimization of production chains across machinery producers. The optimization parameters are based on…
Together with four leading European data economy enterprises as well as world-renown scientists and innovators DFKI will work in project STREAMLINE to meet modern day requirements of European online…
PROTEUS mission is to investigate and develop ready-to-use scalable online machine learning algorithms and real-time interactive visual analytics to deal with extremely large data sets and data…