Guy Lohman
Manager, advanced optimization
Dr. Guy M. Lohman is manager of advanced optimization in the advanced database solutions department at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, and has 23 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, Guy also managed the overall effort to incorporate into the DB2 UDB product the Starburst compiler technology that was prototyped at the Almaden Research Center. More recently, he was a co-inventor and designer of the DB2 Index Advisor (now called Design Advisor), and co-founder of the DB2 Autonomic Computing project (formerly known as SMART -- Self-Managing And Resource Tuning), part of IBM's company-wide autonomic computing initiative. In 2002, Guy was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology. His current research interests involve query optimization, self-managing database systems and problem determination.
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