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Short Biography

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern where he is leading the Knowledge Management research department. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern where he holds the chair “Knowledge-Based Systems”.

From 1980 to 1986 Prof. Dengel studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. He subsequently worked at the Siemens research lab in Munich and at the University of Stuttgart where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1989. In 1991 he worked as a guest researcher at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto.

Since 2006 he is a member of the IT-Summit Working Group on “service and consumer-oriented information technology”, consulting the German government on questions of future IT-strategies. in 2009 he appointed an expert for the German Council of Science and Humanities of the German Government. In 2008 he co-founded the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science "IDAKS" at the Osaka Prefecture University in Japan. Andreas is an advisory board member of the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the NEC Computers and Communication Innovation Research Labs (CCIL), and Intl. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). He is a board member of the Science Alliance Kaiserslautern, a Principle Investigator of the CMCM Research Center at the University of Kaiserslautern as well as of the Diemersteiner Circle. Formerly, he was the German representative in the ICT Prize Executive Jury of the European Council of Applied Science (Euro-CASE), a lecturer of the Joint Executive MBA course at the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics at Dalian, China. From 1997 to 2001 Prof. Dengel was a member of the METTREC Planning Committee (Metadata/Text Retrieval Conference Committee) of the National Institutitute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States.

Besides many keynotes at international conferences, Andreas gave numerous invited technical talks at highly renowned universities and research labs including MIT, Stanford University, PARC, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, CMU, ATR, MSR und Google Research. Andreas was program/technical chair of ICPR, ICDAR, DAS, KI, and KM conferences. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies, e.g. Insiders Technologies where he also acted as a CEO between 1999 and 2001. In 2005 he received a “Pioneer Spirit Award” for one of his start-up concepts. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals and has written or edited 8 books and is author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He supervised more than 120 PhD and master theses.

In 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and has been honoured for his work several times. Most prominent prizes are the ICDAR “Young Investigator Award”, the Nakano Award, the Technical Communication Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation, the Multi-Media Award of the State Rheinland-Pfalz as well as a Document Analysis Systems Achievement Award. His main scientific emphasis is in the areas of Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Document Understanding. Prof. Dengel is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies.

Short:
Dr. Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern. Since 1993 he is a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern here he holds the chair “Knowledge-Based Systems”. He received his Diploma in CS from the University of Kaiserslautern and his PhD from the University of Stuttgart. He also worked at IBM, Siemens, and Xerox Parc. Andreas is member of several international advisory boards, chaired major international conferences, and founded several successful start-up companies. Moreover, he is co-editor of international computer science journals and has written or edited 8 books. He is author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications and supervised more than 120 PhD and master theses. Andreas is a IAPR Fellow and received prominent international awards. His main scientific emphasis is in the areas of Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Document Understanding.

Current research topics include

• Document Analysis and Retrieval
  Collaborative Information Retrieval, Passage Retrieval, Contextual Retrieval, Music Re-trieval,
  Document Understanding, Document Image Analysis
  
• Organizational Memories
  Implicit Knowledge Gathering, Ontologie Learning, Document Management, Collaborative
  Portals, Onto-Societies
  
• Semantic Web
  Semantic Web Languages, Web Retrieval (TRIPLE), Rule Mark-Up Languages, Web Services
  
• Workflow Processing
  Weak Workflow, Contextual Information Supply, Expectation Handling, Dynamic Workflow
  Generation

• THESEUS – Research Project for a new Internet-based knowledge infrastructure funded by the BMBF, 20076-2010
  
• Nepomuk – The development of a „social semantic desktop“. Integrated
  Project (IP), funded by the EU, 2006-2008
  
• Mymory – Personal Memories with Attentive Documents for Knowledge Workers, funded by the BMBF, 2006-2008
  
• iAct, funded by the BMBF, 2007-2009
  
• Semantic eINK, funded by the State of RLP, 2008-2009
  
• IVIP - Intelligent integration of source of information for business specific, location based planning for the production of energy crops, funded by the State of RLP, 2007-2008
  
• Adaptive READ – reading and learning – extracting knowledge from documents, funded by the BMBF, 1999-2002

• VOF – Virtual Office of the Future, in cooperation with RICOH, 2004-2008
  
• LOFOS - Location Based Forecasts, in cooperation with SAP, since 2008
  
• PEEK - Personal and episodic knowledge retrieval in desktop search, in cooperation with Hitachi, 2005 - 2008
  
• NetVis, in cooperation with Lufthansa,since 2008
  

• Conference Chair, 31st annual German conference on Artificial Intelligence KI 2008
  
• Principal Investigator at the cluster of excellence on Dependable Adaptive Systems and Mathematical Modeling (DASMOD)
  
• Key note speaker at the International Conference on Knowledge, Science, Engineering, and Management (KSEM) 2007
  
• Executive Jury Member, IST Grand Prize (EURO-CASE)
  
• Advisory Board Member, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
  
• Editorial Board „International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition“, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Ltd. (since 1998)
  
• Patron of the Sun/Ricoh Student Java Platform Programming Contest (2005-2006)
  
• Sponsor of the Hugo-Ball-Gymnasiums Pirmasens (since 2003)

• 9th International Conference on
  Document Analysis and Recognition, Brazil 2007
  
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008 , Vancouver, Canada
  
• 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR2008 , Tampa, Florida
  
• International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS2008 Nara, Japan
  
• 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR09, Barcelona, Spain
  
• International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART2009 , Porto, Portugal
  
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), India 2007
  
• Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing , Korea 2007

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