Hans-Peter Kriegel

Hans-Peter Kriegel
Born (1948-10-01) 1 October 1948 (age 76)
NationalityGerman
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
Known forR*-tree, X-tree, DBSCAN, OPTICS, LOF
AwardsACM Fellow, IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award, ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science (Data mining, spatial data management)
InstitutionsTechnical University of Dortmund, University of Bremen, University of Würzburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Thesis Erzeugung von Übersetzungen durch Grammatikpaare[1]  (1976)
Doctoral advisorHermann Maurer
Doctoral studentsDaniel A. Keim, Arthur Zimek

Hans-Peter Kriegel (1 October 1948, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and leading the Database Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. He was previously professor at the University of Würzburg and the University of Bremen after habilitation at the Technical University of Dortmund and doctorate from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.