Winner of the Billion Triples Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference in 2008 and 2011; Elected speaker at the ACM SIGMM Rising Stars Symposium; Published over 150 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles.
Research Experience
Led or participated in several EU projects such as MOVING, WeKnowIt, and Social Sensor; Applied data mining techniques across various domains including life sciences/medicine, social sciences, economics, and the web.
Education
Full Professor for Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Ulm University, Germany (current); Professor of Natural Language Processing and Data Analytics, University of Essex, UK; Associate Professor for Data Science and Predictive Analytics, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK; Professor of Knowledge Discovery (W2 level), Kiel University, Germany; Juniorprofessor (W1 level) at the University of Mannheim, Germany; Postdoctoral research associate and Juniorprofessor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Coblenz, Germany; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of California at Irvine, California.
Background
Research Interests: Novel approaches for data analysis by combining symbolic and statistical methods; Professional Areas: Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Semantic Web; Brief Introduction: Excellent research reputation in Text and Graph Mining.