Alfons Kemper

Prof. Dr. Alfons Kemper is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Technische Universität München (TUM), leading the Chair of Database Systems (Computer Science III) within the School of Computation, Information and Technology. He has held academic roles since 1984, including Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at TUM (2006–2010) and Head of the Department of Computer Science at TUM since 2022. His research focuses on optimizing database systems for distributed and main-memory environments, with contributions to query optimization, transaction management, and hybrid OLTP/OLAP systems.

• Education: M.Sc. (1981), Ph.D. (1984) from USC Los Angeles; Habilitation (1991) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Research Interests: Main-memory database systems, distributed database architectures, query optimization techniques, and hardware-aware database designs. His work emphasizes leveraging modern hardware (e.g., HTM) and addressing data explosion challenges in both enterprise and scientific applications.

Awards: ACM Fellow (2022), ICDE Ten-Year Influential Paper Award (2021), Fellow of GI (2016). Major publications include the seminal textbook Database Systems: An Introduction (10th ed., 2016) and foundational work on HyPer, a hybrid main-memory database system.

Leadership: Organized VLDB 2017 in Munich, served as PC co-chair for ICDE 2017. Active in academic governance, including roles at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and TUM's Bavarian Elite Master Program in Software Engineering.