The project aimed at applying modern algorithmic techniques to problems arising in database management systems in connection with the evaluation of queries.
From 2011-2015, he ran the MaDaMS project, which partnered with Demetra A/S, Aarhus University and Apptus AB at finding more efficient approaches to data mining.
[6] In 2017 Pagh co-founded the Basic Algorithms Research Center, BARC, in Copenhagen[7] with Mikkel Thorup, Thore Husfeldt and Stephen Alstrup.
Soon thereafter he took a sabbatical to join the Simons Institute at University of California, Berkeley[8] and become a Google visiting scholar.
[10] In 2020, Rasmus Pagh received the European Symposium on Algorithms Test-of-Time award for his 2001 work on cuckoo hashing with Flemming Friche Rodler.