The DEEM Lab is a cross-organisational research group uniting the chair for the management of data science processes at Technische Universität Berlin with external members from multiple universities and industry. The lab is led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schelter and is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).
Our lab conducts fundamental research at the intersection of data management and machine learning, which addresses data-related problems in ML applications that cause negative economic, societal or scientific impact. Our goal is to foster the responsible management of data and to lower the technical bar for working with data science technologies.
Our research is accompanied by efficient and scalable open source implementations, many of which are applied in real world use cases, for example in the Amazon Web Services cloud and in large European e-commerce platforms. The focus areas of the lab are:
Our research contributions have been recognized with an ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, an ACM SIGMOD Best Demo Runner Up Award and a Best Paper Runner Up Award from the Table Representation Learning workshop at NeurIPS. We have ongoing collaborations with the University of Amsterdam and CWI in the Netherlands, as well as with the Center for Responsible AI at New York University.
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Sebastian Schelter is a Full Professor at the Berlin Institute on the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) and Technische Universität Berlin. His research is focused on the intersection of data management and machine learning with the goal to foster the responsible management of data and to democratise data science technologies.
The research of his group is accompanied by efficient and scalable open source implementations, many of which are applied in real world use cases, for example in the Amazon Web Services cloud and in large European e-commerce platforms.
In the past, he has been an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, a faculty fellow at New York University, a senior applied scientist at Amazon Research and a research intern at Twitter and IBM Almaden in California. His research contributions have been recognized with an ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, an ACM SIGMOD Best Demo Runner Up Award, and a Best Paper Runner Up Award from the Table Representation Learning workshop at NeurIPS.
We offer the following courses during the summer semester 2025:
For taking one of our courses, please sign up on the corresponding course page on ISIS and attend the first lecture, where we will discuss the details for the formal registration.
If you are interested in writing a bachelor and master thesis with us, please check out our list of available topics at theses.tu-berlin.de.
We are currently looking for two student employees to support our research in tasks such as the implementation of research prototypes (for data validation, machine unlearning, feature stores, recommender systems), the collection, generation and preparation of training data or the analysis of program code with large language models. The students will also be listed as co-authors on the resulting scientific publications.
Requirements
Please consult the official job ad for details on how to apply.
Email: schelter [at] tu-berlin [dot] de
Technische Universität Berlin
FG Management of Data Science Processes
Sekr. TEL 9-2
Ernst-Reuter Platz 7
10587 Berlin
Germany
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schelter