Tore Risch
Professor of Database Technology
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University
Box 337
751 05 Uppsala
Sweden

https://user.it.uu.se/~torer
Phone: +46 18 471 6342
E-mail: Tore dot Risch at it.uu.se


Tore Risch is Professor of Database Technology at Uppsala University
(Sweden) where he leads the Uppsala DataBase Laboratory (UDBL)
research group (http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/udbl/).  He was
previously Professor at Linköping University (Sweden).  Before
Linköping he was staff member in the Database Technology Department at
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California), and Visiting
Scholar from HP in the database group at Stanford University.  Prior
to joining HP, he worked for Syntelligence Inc. (Sunnyvale,
California) designing a product for large scale knowledge bases
combining AI and database technologies. He also worked on the
Prospector expert system (SRI, Menlo Park, California), on integrating
Prolog with relational databases (Uppsala U., Sweden), and at IBM's
Almaden Center (San Jose, California) on functional knowledge
representation. He made his PhD 1978 at Linköping University (Sweden),
on query optimization in a meta-database system. He is author of over
100 technical publications and 5 US patents. He was General Chair of
three international scientific conferences and member of the program
committees of over 100 international scientific conferences.