Guy Lohman
Guy Lohman
Manager, Advanced Optimization
Almaden Research Center
IBM Research
Dr. Guy M. Lohman is manager of advanced optimization in the Advanced Database Solutions department at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, and has 21 years of experience in relational query optimization. He is the architect of the Optimizer of the DB2 Universal Data Base (UDB) for Linux, Unix, and Windows, and was responsible for its development in Versions 2 and 5, as well as the invention and prototyping of Visual Explain. During that period, Lohman also managed the overall effort to incorporate the Starburst compiler technology that was prototyped at the Almaden Research Center into the DB2 UDB product.
Recently, Lohman was co-inventor and designer of the DB2 Index Wizard (DB2 Advisor), and co-founder of the DB2 SMART (Self-Managing and Resource Tuning) project, part of IBM's Autonomic Computing initiative. In 2002, Lohman was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology. His current research interests involve query optimization and self-managing database systems.
