Affiliation: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Keywords:
Databases, Process Mining, Information Systems, Event Stream Processing,
Data Science
Full profile:
Since 2018, Matthias has been a full professor and Chair of Databases
and Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science at
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). He joined the department in April
2015 as a junior professor, supported by German Research Foundation
(DFG) through the Emmy-Noether Programme. Earlier, he worked as a
research associate at the Department of Computing at Imperial College
London and as a research fellow and adjunct lecturer at the Technion –
Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from
the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), University of Potsdam.
Matthias’ research interests include data-driven approaches to the
analysis of process-oriented systems, aka process mining. These
techniques help to improve operations and resource utilization in
domains such as health care and logistics. Another stream of work
relates to algorithms for efficient processing of streaming data, for
instance, for the detection of patterns in data streams emitted by
distributed Internet-of-Things infrastructures. A third pillar of his
work are models and methods for exploratory data analysis. That includes
interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists in astrophysics and
bioinformatics on scientific workflow systems to facilitate
reproducible, portable, and trustworthy analysis of large-scale
scientific data.
His work has been recognized by several awards, including Best Paper
Awards at the ICPM 2023, ACM DEBS 2022, and BPM 2017 conferences. In
2016, he received the Berlin Young Scientist Award, awarded by the
Governing Mayor of Berlin to a single scientist across all scientific
disciplines. He has also been a Junior-Fellow of the German Informatics
Society (GI).
Matthias is further active in the scientific community as part of
various service roles. He is a member of the Steering Committees of the
BPM conference series and the ACM DEBS conference series,
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Information Systems journal, and Associate
Editor of The VLDB Journal and Process Science. Moreover, for several
years, he has been one of the organizers of the mentoring programme
offered by the German Informatics Society that brings together students
and experienced mentors.