He received his PhD in Computer Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany in 2013. Dr. Züfle is a data scientist, whose research quest is to bridge the gap between databases, statistics and geoinformation science, three communities often working independently on identical research problems. To bring these communities together, Dr. Züfle’s research is focused on managing, querying and mining of spatio-temporal and uncertain data. Since 2011, he has published more than 60 fully refereed papers receiving more than 1000 citations for his innovative work. His current research activities are funded by NSF. For more details, see cos.gmu.edu/ggs/andreas-zufle/.