Alumni
Former members of our group, with the title of their dissertation, the year they completed it, and where they went afterwards.
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Doctoral researchers
2024
- Dr. Satya Almasian — Quantity-centric Search and Retrieval. Now applied scientist at Amazon. LinkedIn
- Dr. Ghadeer Mobasher — WeLT: Weighted Loss Trainer for Biomedical Joint Entity and Relation Extraction. Now Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at SRH University. LinkedIn
- Dr. Dennis Aumiller — Towards a Unified Framework for Aspect-based Multi-document Text Summarization. Now Senior Member of Technical Staff at Cohere. LinkedIn
- Dr. John Ziegler — Temporal, Network-Based Media Analytics: From Model to Application.
- Dr. Subhash Chandra Pujari — Neural Patent Classification beyond Title and Abstract: Leveraging Patent Text and Metadata. Now AI Tech Lead at Bosch Center for AI. LinkedIn
2019
- Dr. Andreas Spitz — Implicit Entity Networks: A Versatile Document Model. Now Junior Professor at University of Konstanz. Homepage
- Dr. Sergei Yakneen — Modern Systems for Large-scale Genomics Data Analysis in the Cloud. CTO at Isomorphic Labs, now strategic advisor. LinkedIn
2018
- Dr. Hui Li — Social Network Extraction and Exploration of Historical Correspondences.
2017
- Dr. Ajinkya Prabhune — Generic and Adaptive Metadata Management Framework for Scientific Repositories. Now Professor of Computer Science and Business Analytics at SRH University. LinkedIn
2016
- Dr. Hamed Abdelhaq — Localized Events in Social Media Streams: Detection, Tracking, and Recommendation. Assistant Professor of Computer Science at An-Najah National University, Palestine. Homepage · LinkedIn
- Dr. Florian Flatow — Feature-based Vector Field Representation and Comparison. Senior Data Management Specialist & Lead Data Scientist in Manufacturing at Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart. LinkedIn
2015
- Dr. Jannik Strötgen — Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Event-centric Information Retrieval. Professor at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Homepage
- Dr. Ayser Armiti — Geometric Graphs: Matching, Similarity, and Indexing. Lead Data Scientist at Transit, Stuttgart. LinkedIn
- Dr. Christian Sengstock — Geographic Feature Mining: Framework and Fundamental Tasks for Geographic Knowledge Discovery from User-generated Data. Head of Product Management at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG, Walldorf. LinkedIn
2014
- Dr. Van Canh Tran — Learning Social Links and Communities from Interaction, Topical, and Spatio-Temporal Information. Senior Data Scientist at Mercedes-Benz Mobility. LinkedIn
- Dr. Le Van Quoc Anh — Pattern Discovery from Event Data. Professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport.
Further former doctoral students
Doctoral students who were part of the group during the years given.
- Jayson Salazar — 2021–2024. Security Engineering and IT Lead at EngFlow, LinkedIn
- Philip Hausner-Nguyen — 2020–2021. Senior Software Engineer at Vector Informatik. LinkedIn
- Sebastian Lackner — 2018–2020. Co-founder and CTO of Sysmagine GmbH. LinkedIn
- Gerrit Kazmaier — external doctoral student, 2013–2015. Was Vice President and General Manager for Database, Data Analytics and Looker at Google. LinkedIn
- Thomas Weßling — 2013–2015. Head of Corporate AI Office at Atruvia AG. LinkedIn
- Katarina de Jong-Gavric — 2012–2015. Engineering Manager at TicketSwap. LinkedIn
Postdoctoral researchers
- Prof. Dr. Erich Schubert — 2016–2018. Professor of Data Mining at TU Dortmund University. Homepage
- Dr. Johanna Geiß — 2014–2018. Data Scientist at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg. LinkedIn
- Dr. Conny Junghans — 2009–2011. Dissertation Adaptive Data Mining Techniques for Streaming Data (as Conny Franke, University of California, Davis, 2009). Head of Mail Data Products at 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH. LinkedIn