Christian S. Jensen
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- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (2016)
- ACM Fellow (2011)
- IEEE Fellow (2008)
- Member of Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and Academia Europaea
Christian S. Jensen | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) Vester Hassing, Denmark |
| Alma mater | Aalborg University |
| Occupation | Professor |
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Christian S. Jensen (born 1963) is a Danish computer scientist who is a professor at Aalborg University.
Jensen's research focuses on temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal, geo-textual, and multidimensional data; data management, analytics, machine learning; data models, query languages, database design, query and update processing and optimization, and indexing.[1]
Jensen obtained his bachelor's degrees in mathematics (1985) and computer science (1986) and a master's degree in computer science (1988) at Aalborg University. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maryland (USA) and defended it at Aalborg in 1991.[2] In 2000, he obtained the Danish Dr. Techn. degree from Aalborg .[1][3]
Career
Jensen has been a visiting scholar (1991–1992), visiting associate professor (1994–1995), and visiting professor (1999) at the University of Arizona. He has also been a visiting scientist at Google in Mountain View, California (2008–2009). From 2001 to 2011, he was Professor II at University of Agder in Norway; and from 2010 to 2013, he was professor at Aarhus University.[4]
Jensen was a distinguished visiting professor at Sa Shixuan International Research Center for Big Data Management and Analytics, Renmin University of China (2012–2017)[5] and honorary professor at Renmin (2013–2016)[6] and Cardiff University, Department of Computer Science (2001–2006).[7]
Jensen is an ACM Fellow (2011)[8] and an IEEE Fellow (2008).[9] He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2001-),[10] the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2010-),[11] and Academia Europaea (2013-).[12] Jensen is president of the steering committee of the Swiss National Research Program on Big Data (2015–2021).[13]
In Norway, Jensen chairs the scientific advisory board of NorwAI, the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (2020-);[14][15] and in Germany, he serves on the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken (2019–2023).[16] Finally, he serves on the board of directors of VILLUM FONDEN (since 2018).[2]
Jensen has been editor-in-chief for The VLDB Journal (2008–2014)[17] and ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2014–2020).[18]
