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 specializing in databases, data management, and big data, with over a decade of academic and industry experience spanning ETH Zurich, SAP, and Marburg. He combines deep systems expertise—main-memory databases, indexing, OLAP, and scalable analytics—with a strong track record in teaching innovation, having pioneered flipped classrooms and authored a freely available "flipped textbook" and video courses. His research has earned top conference awards (CIDR, VLDB) and leadership roles on program committees for PVLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. Jens is also an entrepreneur: he co-founded startups applying deep learning to database problems and helped launch the Data Science Summer School and DSAI degree program at the Saarland Informatics Campus. He is known for translating cutting-edge research into practical systems (OctopusDB, Hadoop++/HAIL) and for engaging broader audiences—evidenced by science-slam qualifications and multiple presentation prizes. Based in Saarland, Germany, he blends rigorous research, hands-on systems building, and effective public teaching to advance reproducible, high-performance data analytics.
11 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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