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'.
In 2006 Prof. Dengel was appointed a member of the task force for 'service and
customer oriented IT' to counsel the German Federal Government on questions in
the field of Information Technologies. Prof. Dengel is also member of the
Advisory Board at the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From 2005 to 2007 he was a member and German
representative in the ICT Prize Executive Jury of the European Council of
Applied Science (Euro-CASE). He also acts as a Reviewer for the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF) as well as for the Dutch Research Council (NOW). He is a member of
the advisory boards of the Intl. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR) and the Intl. Conference on Knowledge, Science, Engineering and
Management (KSEM). He has also been appointed to the Center of Excellence for
Leadership and Learning (CELL) and he is a member of the board of INTERIM2000.
From 2003 to 2005 he was 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 Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) of the USA. He was program/technical chair of ICPR, ICDAR,
DAS, and KM conferences. Prof. Dengel is founder or initiator of several
successful start-up companies. 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 100 PhD and
master theses.
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Christian Reuschling studied Information Technology at the Berufsakademie
(University of Cooperative Education) Mosbach and received his diploma in 2001.
From 1998 until 2001 he developed Software for Corning Frequency Control Tele
Quarz GmbH , a leading worldwide manufacturer of frequency control devices for
the global electronics market. The diploma thesis in the context of production
of quartz crystal resonators investigated the use of Data Mining techniques
(Decision Trees, Neural Networks) for analysing the sharpening process of quartz
blanks.
He arrived at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in January 2002,
where he works as a Software Engineer in the Knowledge Management department.
His interests, covered in several projects, are about information retrieval,
data visualisation, usability, ontology-based CBR and ontology maintenance.
Christian manages and implements the desktop search engine project 'DynaQ'
(http://dynaq.opendfki.de),
which is offered to the world as open source
application, and is used in several DFKI projects as a central technology.
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