Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

Education

Post-doc at Xerox Parc, CA, USA

1989 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science, University of Stuttgart. Title of the thesis: „Automated Visual Classification of Documents“

1988-1989 Lecturer at the Berufsakademie Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

1980-1986 Studies in Computer Science and Economics, Technical University Kaiserslautern

since 2009 Head of Site at DFKI

2008 Co-Founder of the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science "IDAKS" in Osaka, Japan

since 2007 Management Board Member of Science Alliance Kaiserslautern¶
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Since 2006 Member of the IT-Summit Working Group on “service and consumer-oriented information technology”, consulting the German government on questions of future IT-strategies.¶

since 2005 Member of the DFKI Laboratories' Management Board

2003-2005 Lecturer in the Joint Executive MBA-Program of the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the University of Texas in Austin, and the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in Dalian, China

since 2002 Consultant for Knowledge Management and Technology Strategies

1999-2001 Associate and Managing Director of Insiders Information Management GmbH

1998-1999 Associate and Managing Director of Insiders Knowledge Based Systems GmbH

since 1997 Full Professor (C4) at the Technical University Kaiserslautern, Computer Science Department. Head of the section “Knowledge Based Systems”

1993-1997 Full Professor (C3) at the Technical University Kaiserslautern, Computer Science Department. Head of the section “Document Analysis”.

since 1993 Scientific Director at the DFKI. Director of the Knowledge Management Laboratory

1992-1993 Director of the Office Automation Laboratory, DFKI

1990-1991 Project Manager, DFKI

1989-1990 Assistant of the Executive Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH

1987-1989 Research Associate at the Institute for Informatics at the University of Stuttgart

1986-1987 Freelancer at SIEMENS AG, Research and Development Laboratory, München-Perlach

1981-1986 Student Trainee at IBM Deutschland, Quality Assurance Department

• Member of the Advisory Boards at the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies of MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (since 2009)
  
• Principal Investigator des Center for Mathematical and¶
  Computational Modelling (CM)2 (seit 2009)¶
  
• Member of the WWW-Consortium, Metadata and Ontology Standardization Group (since 2001)
  
• Advisory Board Member, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
  
• Editorial Board Future Internet
  
• Member of the METTREC Planning Committee, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (1998-2002)
  
• Member of the Technical Committee 2 „Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition”, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (since 1992)
  
• Member of the Technical Committee 11 „Reading Systems”, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (since 1992)

• Program Chair, International Conference on Handwriting Recognition, Bari 2012
  
• Conference Chair, 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent
  Information and Engineering Systems, Kaiserslautern 2011
  
• Conference Chair, 31. Deutsche Konferenz über Künstliche Intelligenz KI 2008
  
• Leiter der 3. Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement (WM05), Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2005
  
• Co-Chair 6th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS04), Firenze, Italy, September 2004
  
• Program Chair, 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR97), Ulm, Germany, August 1997
  
• Co-Chair, 5th International Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR96) Las Vegas, NV, USA, Mai 1996
  
• Co-Chair, IAPR Workshop on "Document Analysis Systems" (DAS94), Kaiserslautern, Oktober 1994

• 2009 Professor (Kyakuin), Osaka Prefecture University¶
  
• 2008 Nakano-Award (Best Paper) auf der DAS08 (Document Analysis Systems): "Attention-Based Document Classifier Learning"¶
  
• 2005 Pioniergeist 2005, Prize for concept an Founding, Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB, VR. SWR), Mainz
  
• 2004 Multimedia Prize „Media in Motion“, Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
  
• 2004 IAPR-Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK
  
• 2002 DAS Achievement Award, Princeton, NJ, USA
  
• 1999 Multimediapreis des Landes Rheinlad-Pfalz
  
• 1997 Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation der Alcatel/SEL-Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung
  
• 1997 ICDAR Young Investigator Award
  
• 1996 Innovationspreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
  
• 1993 Best-Paper Award. 3rd Int’l Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting, Buffalo, NY, USA
  
• 1988 Anerkennungspreis der DAGM (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung)

• R. Biedert, G. Buscher and A. Dengel, From the Eye to the Ear , in: Informatik Spektrum, Springer Publ., to appear 2010.
  
• C. Tuot and A. Dengel, Sustainability for Agriculture Through Knowledge Management, in: L. Maurer & K. Tochtermann (eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Biodiversity & Agriculture, Sahker Publ. (2009), pp. 17-30.
  
• A. Dengel, Twenty Years of German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), in: Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (July 2008), pp. 810-817 (in Japanese).
  
• A. Dengel, T. Breuel, K. Berns, T. Roth-Berghofer, and F. Bomarius, Proceedings KI 2008: Advances in AI, 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 5243, Springer Publ., Berlin-Heidelberg (Sept. 2008), 404 pages
  
• Dengel, Wissensbasierte Dokumentanalyse, in: Reuse, B., Vollmar, R. (Hrsg.), Informatikforschung in Deutschland, Heidelberg, Berlin, Springer (2007), pp. 245-261.
  
• A. Bernardi and A. Dengel, Developments in Technical Knowledge Management Support, in: J.F. Schreinemakers and T.M. van Engers (edt.), 15 Years of Knowledge Management, Ergon Publ. (2007), pp. 199-218.
  
• Dengel, Knowledge Technologies for the Social Semantic Desktop, in: Z. Zhang and J. Siekmann (Eds.): Proceedings KSEM 2007, Keynote Paper, Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Science, Eng. and Mngmt., Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 4798, Springer Publ. (Nov. 2007), pp. 2-9.
  
• K.-D. Althoff, A. Dengel, R. Bergmann, M. Nick and T. Roth-Berghofer (eds.) Professional Knowledge Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3782, Springer Publ., Berlin-Heidelberg (Dec. 2005), 739 pages
  
• A. Dengel, Der Social Semantic Desktop – Informationsmanagement triftt Web 2.0, in: DOK Magazin, Ausgabe 02-08, good source publishing (Apr. 2008), pp. 62-64 (in German).
  
• W. Wahlster and A. Dengel, Web 3.0: Convergence of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, in: Technology Radar, Feature Paper, Edition II (June 2006), p. 1-23.
  
• A. Dengel, Six Thousand Words about Multi-Perspective Personal Document Management, Proceedings IEEE-EDM, Key Note Paper, IEEE International Workshop on the Electronic Document Management in an Enterprise Computing Environment, Key Note Paper, Hong Kong, China (Oct. 2006), pp. 1-10
  
• A. Hust, M. Junker and A. Dengel, A Mathematical Model for Improving Retrieval Performance in Collaborative Information Retrieval, Kluwer Information Retrieval accepted for publication.
  
• A. Dengel and S. Marinai (eds.) Document Analysis VI , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ., Princeton, NJ, USA, 562 pages (Sept. 2004)
  
• A Bernardi, A. Dengel, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Lauer, Heiko Maus und Sven Schwarz, FRODO: ein Agentframework für verteilte Unternehmensgedächtnisse, in: KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 03/04, arentap Verlag, Bremen, (Juli 2004), S. 59-61
  
• A. Dengel, M. Junker and A. Weisbecker (eds.), Reading and Learning -Adaptive Content Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 2956, Springer Publ. (2004), 355 pages
  
• B. Klein and A. Dengel, Problem-Adaptable Document Analysis and Understanding for High-Volume Applications, Int’l Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Volume 6, No. 4 (2004), pp167-180.
  
• A. Dengel, Making Documents Work: Challenges of Document Understanding, Key Note Paper, Proceedings ICDAR'03, 7nd Int’l Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Edinburgh, Scotland (Aug. 2003), pp. 1026-1035.
  
• S. Agne, A. Dengel and B. Klein, Evaluating SEE – A Benchmarking System for Document Page Segmentation, Proceedings ICDAR'03, 7nd Int’l Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Edinburgh, Scotland (Aug. 2003), pp. 634-638.
  
• S. Baumann, A. Dengel, M. Junker and T. Kieninger, Combing Ontologies and Document Retrieval Techniques, 3rd Int’l Workshop on Theory & Applications of Knowledge Management- in Conjunction with DEXA 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, (Sept. 2002), pp. 133-137.
  
• M. Junker, A. Abecker and A. Dengel, Text Categorization using Learned Document Features, in: : H. Bunke, A. Kandel (eds.) Hybrid Methods in Pattern Recognition, World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., Singapore (2002), pp. 301-324
  
• M. Junker and A. Dengel, Preventing overfitting in learning text patterns for document categorization, ICAPR2001, 2nd Int’l Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (March 2001), pp. 137-146
  
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