| Thomas Neumann | |
| Birth Date: | 1977 |
| Field: | Computer science |
| Work Institution: | Technical University of Munich Saarland University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Mannheim |
| Thesis Year: | 2005 |
| Thesis Title: | Efficient generation and execution of DAG-structured query graphs |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Guido Moerkotte |
| Known For: | RDF-3X in-memory databases |
| Prizes: | Leibniz Prize |
Thomas Neumann (born 1977[1]) is a German computer scientist and full professor for Data Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).[2]
Thomas Neumann finished his studies in business informatics, at the University of Mannheim in 2001. He received his doctor's degree in computer science under the supervision of Guido Moerkotte, in 2005,[3] and then worked as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken, with Gerhard Weikum. During this time, Neumann developed RDF-3X,[4] a system for graph databases. He habilitated in 2010 at Saarland University.[1] In the same year, he joined the group for database systems at TUM under Alfons Kemper as associate professor.[1] In 2017, he became a full professor for Data Science and Engineering, also at TUM.
His research areas are query optimisation and efficient query processing by just-in-time compilation.[5] As part of this research, he developed the main memory database system HyPer, which was sold to Tableau Software in 2016,[6] and its successor system Umbra.[7] He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for his work on HyPer.