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 .





