Prof. Michael Böhlen / Prof. Abraham Bernstein

University of Zurich

About the author

Michael H. Böhlen is a professor of computer science at the University of Zurich where he heads the database technology group. His research focuses on temporal data management and analytics, including query processing and indexing, statistical computations, and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich and was a faculty member at Aalborg University and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He served as Program Chair for VLDB 2013, EDBT 2018 and SSDBM 2018, was a member of the VLDB Endowment’s Board of Trustees, and served as associate editor for ACM TODS and the VLDB Journal.

Abraham Bernstein, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Informatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He received a Diploma in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and a Ph.D. in Management with a concentration in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Abraham Bernstein is also a founding Director of the University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI) — a university-wide initiative with more than 180 faculty members from all disciplines investigating all aspects of the interplay between society and the digitalization and President of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Research Priority Program 77 on the Digital Transformation. He was also a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on human rights dimensions of automated data processing and different forms of artificial intelligence (MSI-AUT).

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Stream analytics: fast processing and privacy-preserving tools

The goal was to build a petabyte-scale analytics system that enables non-computer scientists to analyse high-performance data streams.