Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl
Head of group, Director of MCML
Database Systems, Data Mining and AI
Responsibilities and Memberships
- Managerial tasks
- * LMU Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining, chair holder (2016-) --- DBS
* Munich Center for Machine Learning, managing director (2018-) --- MCML
* Fraunhofer IIS, Group DEAL, academic head (2018/20-) --- DEAL
* Leibniz Rechenzentrum, director (2019-) and advisory board member (2018-) --- LRZ
* LMU Institute of Informatics, managing director (2024-2026) --- IfI - Committee Baiosphere
- * Bavarian AI Council (2020-2028) -- Bayer. KI-Rat
* BayStMWK Steering committee BayernKI (2024-)
* BayStMWK Expert committee AI (2020)
* BayStMWi Expert committee AI / Data Science, deputy head, 2018-2024
* AIMotion Mobilitätsbeirat TH Ingolstadt, deputy head (2024-) - Scientific societies
- Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (1997-)
* GI FB DBIS Steering committee
* GI FG KDML Steering committee
* GI AK DE4DS Steering committee
ACM SIGMOD and SIGKDD Member
ELLIS Member
German Data Science Society (GDS) - Career stages
- * LMU Munich, Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining (2016–present)
* RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science 9 (Data Management and Exploration) (2002–2016)
* University of Konstanz, Interim Professor of Computer Science (2001–2002)
* LMU Munich, Research Assistant (Postdoctoral), Habilitation (1998–2002)
* LMU Munich, Research Assistant (Doctoral Studies) (1993–1997)
* TUM, Studies in Computer Science with Economics (1987–1992)
Scientific Activities
Current Courses
- For seminars and practical courses, see Winter semester and Summer semester
Previous lectures
- Einführung in Datenbanksysteme (V3Ü2)
- Content-Based Multimedia Search (V4Ü2)
- Indexstrukturen für Datenbanken (V4Ü2)
- Implementierung von Datenbanken (V3Ü2)
- Munich Center for Machine Learning (2018-) --- MCML
- ACM KDD -- Senior Area Chair 2025 -- Area Chair 2025, 2024 -- Senior PC 2023, 2022, 2021 -- PC 2020, ...
- ECML PKDD -- Area Chair 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, ...
- IEEE ICDM -- Area Chair 2022, 2020 -- PC 2024
- IEEE ICDE -- 2025, 2024
- ICLR 2025
- ICPM 2025
- IJCAI 2025, AI4Tech Track
- BTW --- 2025, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, ...
- BTW DE4DS 2025
- PAKDD 2024, Senior PC
- LWDA KDML 2023
- ECAI 2023
- EDBT 2023
- ICPM SA4PM 2024, Co-Chair
- ECIR 2021, Reproducibility Track
- SISAP 2020
- ICPM SA4PM 2020, Co-Chair
- LWDA KDML 2020
- CIKM 2020
- SISAP 2019
- LWDA KDML 2019
- LWDA FGDB 2019
- ICANN 2019
- DSAA 2019
- SISAP 2018
- SIAM SDM 2018, Senior PC
- ACM KDD IDEA 2018
- EDBT 2018
- DSAA 2018
- CIKM 2018
- IDEA 2017
- CIKM 2017
- ACM KDD 2025, Senior Area Chair
- ECML PKDD 2025, Area Chair
- IEEE ICDE 2025
- ICLR 2025
- ICPM 2025
- IJCAI 2025, AI4Tech Track
- BTW 2025
- BTW DE4DS 2025
- ACM KDD 2025, Area Chair
- IEEE ICDM 2024
- ACM KDD 2024, Area Chair
- ECML PKDD 2024, Area Chair
- IEEE ICDE 2024
- PAKDD 2024, Senior PC
- LWDA KDML 2023
- ECAI 2023
- ECML PKDD, Area Chair
- ACM KDD 2023, Senior PC
- EDBT 2023
- BTW 2023
- ICPM SA4PM 2024, Co-Chair
- IEEE ICDM 2022, Area Chair
- ECML PKDD 2022, Area Chair
- ACM KDD 2022, Senior PC
- ACM KDD 2021, Senior PC
- ECML PKDD 2021, Area Chair
- ECIR 2021, Reproducibility Track
- BTW 2021
- SISAP 2020
- ICPM SA4PM 2020, Co-Chair
- LWDA KDML 2020
- ACM KDD 2020
- IEEE ICDM 2020 Area Chair
- ECML PKDD 2020, Area Chair
- CIKM 2020
- SISAP 2019
- LWDA KDML 2019
- LWDA FGDB 2019
- ACM KDD 2019
- ICANN 2019
- ECML PKDD 2019, Area Chair
- DSAA 2019
- BTW 2019
- SISAP 2018
- SIAM SDM 2018, Senior PC
- ACM KDD IDEA 2018
- EDNT 2018
- DSAA 2018
- CIKM 2018
- IDEA 2017
- CIKM 2017
- BTW 2017