Dr. Markl has been working at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San
Jose,USA since January, 2001, conducting research in query
optimization, indexing, and self-managing databases. Volker Markl is
spearheading the LEO project, an effort on autonomic computing with
the goal to create a self-tuning optimizer for DB2 UDB. He also is the
Almaden chair for the IBM Data Management Professional Interest
Community (PIC).