Professorship of Data Engineering

The research group of Data Engineering at TUM Campus Heilbronn devises novel techniques for managing decentralised data, information, and knowledge with a focus on query optimisation, federated query processing, and data quality.
As part of our research, we also study the application of Machine Learning approaches to solve diverse problems in Data and Knowledge Management. For example, we leverage latent features from sub-symbolic representations of knowledge to uncover hidden patterns that can be used to predict missing assertions or properties in knowledge bases.
CONVIDE: Working Group Meeting

On June 25–26, members of our group participated in the annual Convide Working Group meeting at KIT Campus North. Together with more than 30 researchers from across the CRC, we engaged in open and collaborative discussions during a BarCamp-format event focused on cross-project research.
Attended by: Johannes Mäkelburg Zenon Zacouris
1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies

Prof. Maribel Acosta attended the 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies, which took place on June 12 2025, in Leipzig, Germany. There, she presented the keynote “Neural Query Optimizers for Knowledge Graphs: Can We Get There?“, and had the chance to network with other researchers and industry stakeholders.
Attended by: Maribel Acosta
Extended Semantic Web conference (ESWC) 2025

Prof. Maribel Acosta and Doctoral researchers Samuel García and Yuchen Zhou attended the Extended Semantic Web conference (ESWC), which took place on June 1-5 2025, in Portorož, Slovenia.Yuchen Zhou successfully presented her topic in the PhD symposium and a subsequent Minute Madness and poster presentation, whereas Samuel García presented his first publication, "Information-aware Entity Indexing in Knowledge Graphs to Enable Semantic Search".Lastly, Prof. Maribel Acosta received the best mentor award for her guidance to the other PhD symposium students, and had the honor of becoming the General Chair for the next edition of ESWC in 2026.
Attended by: Maribel Acosta, Samuel García, Yuchen Zhou
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