Ziawasch Abedjan is Juniorprofessor (Assistant Professor) and Head of the Big Data Management (BigDaMa) Group at the Technische Universität Berlin. Before Ziawasch was a postdoc at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT working on various data integration topics. Ziawasch received his Ph.D. from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His research interests include, data mining, data integration, and data profiling.