Tilmann Rabl

Tilmann Rabl is a Professor at the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam and holds the chair for Data Engineering Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute. He is a cofounder and scientific director of the startup bankmark. Rabl earned his PhD at the University of Passau in 2011 and spent four years as a postdoc at the University of Toronto's Middleware Systems Research Group (MSRG). From 2015 to 2019, he served as senior researcher and visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin's Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) group and as Vice Director of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data (IAM) Group at DFKI.

Rabls research interests center on stream processing, big data management, end-to-end machine learning pipelines, and benchmarking data processing systems. His recent work explores hardware-conscious database design, GPU memory optimization, and CPU cache prefetching strategies.

• EDBT Best Experiments and Analysis Paper Award (2025)
• ICDE Outstanding Meta-Reviewer (2024)
• SIGMOD Distinguished Reviewer (2024)
• EDBT Best Paper Award (2019, 2022)
• ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight (2022)
• VLDB Distinguished Reviewer (2022)
• ICDE Best Paper Award (2021)
• SIGMOD Best Paper Award (2020)
• DEBS Grand Challenge & Audience Awards (2020)
• SIGMOD Distinguished Reviewer (2020, 2024)
• EDBT Best Demonstration Award (2017)

Rabls advising includes Clemens Schielicke, Finn Schöllkopf, and Tobias Jordan, who are working on master's theses in areas like memory bandwidth expansion, SIMD-accelerated sort-merge joins, and probabilistic filters for intermediate data processing. His group also includes PhD students and postdocs across ongoing projects.