
Erhard Rahm is a professor of database systems at Leipzig University and director of the national AI center ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. He also serves as vice president of the German Informatics Society (GI). His research focuses on data integration, graph analytics, and data privacy-preserving technologies. He has authored several books and over 350 peer-reviewed publications. His work has been recognized with the VLDB Ten-Year Best Paper and ICDE Influential Paper awards. In 1996, he delivered a keynote at the Euro-Par conference in Lyon on “Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems.