Reasoning Web 2010

Lecturers and Contributors

List of lecturers: Frithjof Dau, Włodek Drabent, Jens Lehmann, Jens Lemcke, Krzysztof Miksa, Jeff Z. Pan, Michael Schröder, Hannes Schwarz, Steffen Staab, Anni-Yasmin Turhan

Frithjof Dau, SAP Research Dresden, Germany

Dr. Frithjof Dau received a diploma in mathematics from the University of Hannover, Germany, in 1994. He then was working for 1/2 year as C++-developper for a start-up engineering office, then for two years as Lotus Notes consultant for a middle-size consulting company. In 1997, he joined the research group of Prof. Rudolf Wille, founder of Formal Concept Analysis, at TU Darmstadt, Germany. In 2002, he received his PhD for his thesis "The Logic System of Concept Graphs (And its Relationship to Predicate Logic)" (published by Springer in the series "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence"). After this, he worked as lecturer and assistant professor at TU Darmstadt, FH Darmstadt, TU Dresden (all Germany) and University of Wollongong, Australia. In April 2008, he has joined SAP Research in Dresden as researcher. His main research interests are formal logic with diagrams (conceptual graphs, RDF, and the like), formal concept analysis, ontologies, semantic technologies and the semantic web. At SAP, he is responsible for the semantic technologies in Aletheia, and soon for a project which combines semantic technologies and business intelligence.

Włodek Drabent, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Linköping University, Sweden

Włodzimierz Drabent is an associate professor at Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, and at Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. He was a visiting professor at Department of Computer Science, University of California, Riverside. He published numerous technical papers and worked in program committees of over 20 international conferences. His research interests are related to logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, proving program properties, debugging, program analysis, and semantics of programming languages.

Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Jens Lehmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the AKSW research group at the University of Leipzig. He obtained a masters degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Dresden in 2006 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2010 at the University of Leipzig. His research interests involve machine learning, knowledge representation on the Semantic Web and the logic foundations thereof. He is one of the founding members of DBpedia, founder of the machine learning framework for description logic DL-Learner, co-leader of the LinkedGeoData project, co-leader of the ORE project and contributor to the open-source semantic web tool OntoWiki. Jens Lehmann was/is a member of the EU, DFG and BmBF founded research projects SoftWiki, OntoWiki, Le4SW, LOD2 and LATC. He is author of about 20 articles in international conferences and journals. Since 2010, he leads the MOLE research group at the University of Leipzig.

Jens Lemcke, SAP, Germany

Jens Lemcke is a researcher at SAP Research in Karlsruhe, Germany. Jens' research interest comprises enterprise application integration and e-business integration using semantic Web services. In his current research, Jens applies formal methods for business process management during software engineering on top of service-oriented applications. While at SAP Research, Jens has contributed to the EU co-funded research projects: DIP, FUSION, and MOST and engaged in knowledge and technology transfer. Part of his time at SAP was also spent at the SAP Labs in Palo Alto, USA, where he collaborated with the Stanford Logic Group in the POEM project. During his work at SAP, Jens completed his Ph.D. (Dr.) with the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2009. Prior to joining SAP, Jens received his Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the University of Rostock, Germany, in 2004.

Krzysztof Miksa, Comarch, Poland

Krzysztof Miksa is a Project Manager at Telco department of Comarch. Currently, Krzysztof coordinates the FP7 ICT project MOST aiming at leveraging software engineering with ontology technology. In his current role at Comarch he works on topics in the areas of modelling, model-driven software development, and semantics. Krzysztof also possesses large practical experiences in software engineering, after being involved and leading several successful projects in the domain of Telco Operations Support Systems.

Jeff Z. Pan, The University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Jeff Z. Pan received his Ph.D. from University of Manchester in 2004 and joined the faculty in the Department of Computing Science at University of Aberdeen in 2005. His research focuses primarily on knowledge representation and reasoning, in particular ontology reasoning, reuse and usability, and their applications (such as Semantic Web, Software Engineering and Multimedia). His research led to about 90 refereed publications, including those in related top conferences (such as AAAI, ISWC and WWW) and top journals (such as AIJ, JAIR, JAR and TKDE). He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Advances in Artificial Intelligence and on the Editorial Board of both the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI), and as program chair of RR2007, Doctoral Consortium in ISWC2010 and Ontology and Reasoning Track in ESWC2010.

Hannes Schwarz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Hannes Schwarz is working as a research assistant in the working group Software Technology at the University of Koblenz-Landau and conducts his PhD in the field of traceability. His main research interests include traceability, graph technology, and model-driven approaches. Currently, he is involved in the traceability work package of the FP7 ICT project MOST, which aims at leveraging software engineering with ontology technology.

Michael Schröder, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Prof. Michael Schroeder heads the 15 researcher strong bioinformatics group located in the Biotechnological Center (Biotec), TU Dresden. He works on protein structure interactions and functional annotation with textmining, ontologies, and reasoning. He has developed the GoPubMed system for ontology-based literature mining gopubmed.org and the structural protein interaction database scoppi.org. He is co-founder and chief science officer of Transinsight, which develops semantic search technologies for the life sciences. He has published over 150 articles and manages a number of national and international research projects. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Gene Ontology and the International Max-Planck Research School in Dresden. Before joining TU Dresden, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing at City University, London, UK. He carried out his PhD at Universities of Lisbon and Hanover.

Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Steffen Staab is Professor for Databases & Information Systems and Director of the institutes for Computer Science and for Web Science and Technologies - WeST - at the University of Koblenz-Landau. He studied, worked or lectured at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Pennsylvania, Freiburg, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. His research interests deal with many aspects of the Web including in particular Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web and the application of novel Semantic Web technologies to domains such as software engineering and multimedia.

Anni-Yasmin Turhan, TU Dresden, Germany

Anni-Yasmin Turhan is a post-doctoral research and teaching fellow at TU Dresden, where she teaches courses on advanced topics in Description Logics. In 2007 she received her Ph.D. for her thesis on non-standard inferences in Description Logics from TU Dresden. Her research interests include generalization inferences in DLs and employing DL inferences for context-aware systems. She participated in several national and european research projects and was key researcher in industry funded research projects. Anni-Yasmin Turhan was the PC member for international conferences in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web (AAAI'08 & '10, ISWC'09, ECAI'10) and she was the PC co-chair of international workshops on Knowledge Representation (DL'07, UniDL'10).

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