Matthias Boehm is a full professor for data management in data science at Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he holds a BMVIT-endowed chair for data management. Prior to joining TU Graz in 2018, he was a research staff member at IBM Research – Almaden, USA, with a major focus on optimization and runtime techniques for declarative, large-scale machine learning in Apache SystemML. He received his PhD from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany in 2011 with a dissertation on cost-based optimization of integration flows. His previous research also includes systems support for time series forecasting as well as in-memory indexing and query processing.