Maik Thiele

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maik Thiele is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Dresden University of Applied Sciences. He leads the Professorship for Database Systems, focusing on advanced database technologies, big data platforms, and data engineering.

• Academic Leadership: Dean of Master's program in Applied Computer Science (since 2021), elected member of Faculty Council (since 2024)
• Research: Data analysis along the data value chain from acquisition to AI-driven processing, with emphasis on Active Learning, Transformer Models, and Mathematical Information Retrieval
• Applied Projects: Director of Dresden Database Forum, member of Digital Transformation Development Workshop (EDiT)

His recent work analyzes Active Learning strategies for biomedical image classification and synthetic data, develops time series matching techniques, and explores ethical AI evaluation for e-commerce chatbots. He supervises student theses on topics ranging from PDF data extraction to Smart Grid monitoring and Speech-to-Text optimization.

Professor Thiele serves on program committees for leading conferences including ADBIS, DAWAK, and DOLAP, and contributes to journals like Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and International Journal on Very Large Data Bases.