Jens Dittrich
Full Professor at Saarland University
Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Dittrich is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, shaping the next generation of data management with a strong emphasis on fast analytics, main-memory databases, and scalable indexing. His career spans industry and academia, including SAP and ETH Zurich, and he leads research at the intersection of deep learning and databases through his startup daimond.ai. An award-winning scholar, he has earned recognitions at CIDR and VLDB and has shaped database education through flipped classrooms and freely available videos in German and English. He co-founded ventures like d:AI:mond and ChainifyDB, and has steered data science education programs as program coordinator at Saarland Informatics Campus, reflecting his blend of research rigor and practical impact. His work emphasizes reproducibility in big-data analytics and practical system architectures, and he continues to chair and contribute to top conferences and journals in PVLDB/VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE. Based in Saarland, Germany, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical depth across databases, data management, and AI.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Computer Science, Postdoc, Computer Science at ETH ZurichDiplom, Computer Science (Minor: Media Sciences), Diplom, Computer Science (Minor: Media Sciences) at The Philipp University of Marburg
Github Skills (10)
java8
vagrant7
python7
machine-learning7
spark7
hadoop5
data-science5
bigquery5
big-data5
data-engineering4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jensdittrich/personalizedexams
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
BigDataAnalyticsGroup/Deep-Query-Optimization
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 4 months
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