Dan Olteanu studied Computer Science at the Politehnica University of Bucharest and received his PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University in 2005. After a two-year stint as postdoctoral assistant at the University of Saarland and visiting scientist at Cornell University, he took the role of university lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and fellow of St Cross College. He became full professor at Oxford in 2016. He also held positions as visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Turing fellow at Alan Turing Institute in London, and computer scientist at LogicBlox and relational AI start-up software companies. Since May 2020, Dan is a DSI professor and full professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Data Systems and Theory group. He remains a visiting professor with the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of St Cross College.

 

Dan's research interests revolve around understanding computational challenges on data processing and designing simple and scalable solutions towards these challenges. Over the last two decades, he has published in the areas of database systems, database theory, and AI, contributing to XML query processing, incomplete information and probabilistic databases, factorised databases, in-database machine learning, incremental maintenance for analytics, and the commercial systems LogicBlox and relationalAI. He co-authored the book « Probabilistic Databases » (2011). His most recent work is on efficient algorithms for machine learning over relational data and incremental maintenance of analytical workloads under data updates (https://fdbresearch.github.io/).