Rate My Professor Erhard Rahm

Rahm's research centers on data integration techniques, including schema matching, entity resolution, record linkage, data cleaning, big data integration, knowledge graph construction, privacy-preserving data analysis, scalable graph data management, and analytics. Among his most influential publications are "A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching" (2001, VLDB Journal), "Data cleaning: Problems and current approaches" (2000), "Similarity flooding: A versatile graph matching algorithm and its application to schema matching" (2002, recipient of ICDE 2013 Influential Paper Award), "Generic schema matching with Cupid" (2001), and "COMA: a system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches" (2002). He received the VLDB 2011 Ten-Year Best Paper Award, Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award in 2016 for collaborations defining schema matching in data exchange, and best paper awards at ICDE 2002, ESWC 2013 and 2018, among others. Rahm served as editor-in-chief of VLDB Journal (2003-2009), Parallel Computing (2001-2007), and Datenbank-Spektrum (until 2011). He held leadership positions in conferences such as general chair of BTW 2003, PC vice-chair of ICDE 2021, and numerous program committees for VLDB, SIGMOD, EDBT. Since 2022, he is vice-president of the German Informatics Society (GI).