title: Erhard Rahm
text: # Erhard Rahm
  
  Erhard Rahm (born 1959) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Leipzig. His research areas are database systems, data integration and Big Data.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Rahm studied computer science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1979 to 1984 where he also earned his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doc at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne. He was an assistant professor at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1989 to 1994 and received the Venia legendi in 1993. Since 1994 he is a full professor for databases at the University of Leipzig. He spent extended research visits at Microsoft Research in Redmond (WA) and the Australian National University.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * Zohra, Bellahsene; Angela, Bonifati; Erhard, Rahm (2011), Schema Matching and Mapping, Springer, Bibcode:2011smm..book.....B, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16518-4, ISBN 978-3-642-16517-7.
  * Rahm, Erhard; Hong Hai, Do (2000), "Data Cleaning: Problems and Current Approaches", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 23 (4): 3–13.
  * Rahm, Erhard; Bernstein, Philip A. (2001), "A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching", VLDB Journal, 10 (4): 334–350, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.16.700, doi:10.1007/s007780100057, S2CID 10500613.
  * Rahm, Erhard (March 2004). Data Integration in the Life Sciences, First International Workshop, DILS 2004, Leipzig, Germany, March 25-26, 2004, Proceedings. Leipzig, Germany: Springer. ISBN 3-540-21300-7.
  
  ## Selected awards
  
  * VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Phil Bernstein,
  * ICDE Influential Paper Award 2013 with Sergey Melnik and Hector Garcia-Molina
  