Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl
Head of group, Director of MCML
Chair of Database Systems, Data Mining and AI
Positions and Memberships
- Executive positions
- * LMU Munich, Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining, Head (2016-) DBS
* Munich Center for Machine Learning, Managing Scientific Director (2018-) MCML
* Fraunhofer IIS, Group DEAL, Academic Supervisor (2020-) DEAL
* Leibniz Rechenzentrum of BAdW, Board of Directors (2019-) LRZ
* LMU Institute of Informatics, Executive Director (2024-2026) IfI - Baiosphere committees
- * Bavarian AI Council (2020-2028) Bayer. KI-Rat
* BayernKI Steering Committee (2024-) BayernKI
* Expert Committee AI / Data Science to BayStMWi, Co-chair (2018-2028)
* AI Mobility Advisory Board, AImotion Bavaria TH Ingolstadt, Vice Chair (2024-) AImotion Bavaria - Scientific community
- * 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) - Former positions
- * RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science 9 (Data Management and Exploration), Head (2002–2016)
* University of Constance, Interim Professor of Computer Science (2001–2002) - Education
- * LMU Munich, Habilitation degree (1998–2002)
* LMU Munich, Dr. rer. nat. (1993–1997)
* TUM, MSc in Computer Science with a minor in Economics and Business Administration (1987–1992)
Scientific Activities
- Bibliography at DBS (our group) bib.dbs.ifi.lmu.de
- Bibliography at MCML MCML.ai
- Bibliography at DBLP DBLP.org
- Citation profile at Google Scholar G'Scholar
- Bibliography at RWTH Aachen (2002-2016) RWTH Aachen
Current courses
- Lecture course on Algorithms and Data Structures (V3Ü2, BSc, Summer)
- Lecture course on Data Mining Algorithms 1 (V3Ü2, MSc, Winter)
- Lecture course on Data Mining Algorithms 2 (V3Ü2, MSc, Summer)
- For seminars and practicals see current Winter semester and Summer semester
Former lecture courses
- Content-Based Multimedia Search (V4Ü2, RWTH Aachen)
- Indexing Structures for Databases (V4Ü2, RWTH Aachen)
- Introduction to Database Systems (V3Ü2, LMU Munich)
- Implementation of Database Systems (V3Ü2, LMU Munich)
Public Funding
- BMBF + HTA Bavaria: Munich Center for Machine Learning --- MCML
- BayStMWi: Ada Lovelace Center (with Fraunhofer IIS)
- BayStMWK: ZD.B Innovation Lab on Big Data Science (with B. Bischl)
- BMBF: AIM "AI as a major Minor" (with E. Hüllermeier, B. Bischl, et al.)
- DFG WR: Cluster of Excellence UMIC (RWTH Aachen)
- DFG: SFB (RWTH Aachen)
- DFG: individual grants (RWTH Aachen)
Private Funding
- Siemens
- Allianz
- Huawei
- IAV
Organization of Conferences and Workshops (selected)
- BTW 2027, Munich -- general chair (with M. Paradies, T. Neumann)
- SISAP ... -- general chair
- LWA 2014, Aachen -- general chair
- BTW 20.., Hamburg -- program chair
- BTW 2007, Aachen -- general chair (with M. Jarke)
Senior Area Chair, Area Chair, Senior PC of Scientific Conferences
- ACM SIGKDD (KDD) 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
- ECML PKDD 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, ...
- IEEE ICDE 2026
- PAKDD 2024
- IEEE ICDM 2022, 2020
- SIAM Data Mining (SDM) 2018
Program Committees of Scientific Conferences (selected)
- IEEE ICDE 2025, 2024
- BTW 2025, 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017, ...
- ICLR 2025
- ICPM 2025
- IJCAI 2025, AI4Tech Track
- ACM KDD 2020, ...
- CIKM 2020, 2018, 2017
- IEEE ICDM 2024
- ECAI 2023
- EDBT 2023, 2018
- SISAP 2020, 2019, 2018
- ICPM SA4PM 2025, 2024, 2020, Co-Chair
- ECIR 2021, Reproducibility Track
- ICANN 2019
- DSAA 2019, 2018
Supervised theses at LMU Munich
Supervised theses at RWTH Aachen