Donald Kossmann

Donald Kossmann
Microsoft Research, Redmond Lab
Distinguished Scientist and Director

Donald Kossmann is the director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, USA.  Before that, he was professor in the Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich for 13 years, doing research and teaching all flavors of databases and data management systems. He was chair of ACM SIGMOD from 2013 to 2017 and served on the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment from 2005 to 2011. He is a co-founder of four start-ups.

Other Profiles you might like

A headshot of Katherine Novinski smiling at the camera

Katherine Novinski

Katherine Novinski, Director, Implementation and Partnership, leads CEI’s portfolio of Career-Connected Learning implementation projects and career-connected learning team. Katherine has led CEI’s work in our Rural Coaction and Opportunity Now

Read More »
Headshot of Snehal Bhakta

Snehal Bhakta

Snehal Bhakta is a member of Teach Engineering and supports their program expansion and Teach Engineering’s Champions Institute, also known as TECI (techie). He also serves as an Affiliate Coordinator

Read More »
A headshot of Megan Ivory smiling at the camera

Megan Ivory

Megan Ivory is a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. She is associate director of quantum ecosystems for the Quantum Systems Accelerator and

Read More »
A headshot of Jenny Frank smiling at the camera in front of bookshelves

Jenny Frank

Jenny Frank is the Director of the STEM Ecosystem Initiative at TIES Gobal, where she leads a community of practice of 120+ community-based STEM ecosystems across 43 states and 8

Read More »
NCWIT
Scroll to Top