Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science University of Mannheim, Germany, 1995 – 1999
Dissertation (in German): “The digital lecture board – Concept, Design, and Implementation of a Whiteboard for Synchronous Teleteaching”
M.S. Information Technology University of Mannheim, Germany, 1990 – 1995
Master’s Thesis at Institut Eurécom, France: “Stream Synchronization in a Scalable Video Server Array”
Bank Trainee Program BfG Bank AG, Mannheim, Germany, 1987 – 1989
High School Diploma Lieselotte-Gymnasium, Mannheim, Germany, 1978 – 1987
Professional Experience
Research Manager, Social Software Solutions Group IBM T.J. Watson Research, Cambridge, MA, 2011 – present
Research Staff Member IBM T.J. Watson Research, Cambridge, MA, 2002 – 2010
Post-Doc IBM T.J. Watson Research, Hawthorne, NY, 2000 – 2001
Research Scientist Department for Applied Computer Science IV, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1995 – 2000
Summer Intern Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 1994
Summer Job Key West Marketing, Winnipeg, Canada, 1993
Research Assistant Department for Applied Computer Science IV, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1993 – 1994
Summer Intern F. Deininger GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, 1991
Contract Programmer Computer Center GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, 1989 – 1993
Financial Consultant BfG Bank AG, Mannheim, Germany, 1989
Teaching and Tutoring
Summer Intern Mentor IBM Research, USA, 2000 – present
- Mikhil Masli, University of Minnesota
- Hyungil Ahn, MIT Media Lab, now with IBM Research Almaden
- Jilin Chen, University of Minnesota
- Pavan Vatturi, Oregon State University
- Lida Li, Oregon State University, now with Microsoft
- Jianqiang Shen, Oregon State University, now Research Scientist at Pearson
- Shilad Sen, University of Minnesota, now assistant professor at Macalester College
- Roberto Silva Filho, University of California Irvine, now with Siemens Research
- Andrew Witt, Harvard University School of Design, now Director, Design Innovation at Gehry Technologies, Paris
- Juergen Vogel, University of Mannheim, Germany, now Researcher at SAP Research
- Heather Richter, Georgia Institute of Technology, now assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Student Supervisor (Master’s Thesis and undergraduate papers), Department for Applied Computer Science IV, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1996 – 1999
- Michael Grundel
- Tino von Roden
- Jochen Müller
- Jürgen Vogel
- Martin Grumann
- Volker Hilt
Teaching Assistant Department for Applied Computer Science IV, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1996 – 1999
Instructor Continuing Education Department, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1994 – 1995
Teaching Assistant Department for Applied Mathematics, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1992 – 1993
Service and Volunteer Activities
Organizing Committee
- IBM HCI PIC Chair (Professional Interest Community), since 10/2010
- Tutorial Chair, ACM RecSys’12, Dublin, Ireland
- Organizer ACM RecSys’12 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web
- Workshop Chair, ACM RecSys’11, Chicago, IL
- Organizer ACM RecSys’10 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web
- Organizer ACM RecSys’09 Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web
- Organzier ACM CSCW’08 Workshop on Social Networking in Organizations
Program Committee
- ACM Recommender Systems RecSys 2008 – 2012
- International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2009, 2011, 2012
- International Workshop on Groupware CRIWG, 2005 – 2011
- IW3C2 International World Wide Web conference WWW, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2010
- Autonomous Agent 2001 Workshop on Agent Supported Cooperative Work (WASCW’2001)
Reviewer
- NSF Grant Proposal Reviewer, 2011
- UMAP User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2011
- Interact IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI, 2003 – 2012
- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work CSCW 2002 -2012
- International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2010 – 2012
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo ICME, 2008 – 2009
- ACM Conference on Groupware Group, 2005
- Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal (MTAP), Springer, 2003 – 2008
- IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom, 2003
Memberships
- Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Member of the editorial board of Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Springer
- Member of the alumni organization of the University of Mannheim, AbsolventUM e.V., Germany
- Member of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), VA, USA (June 1997 – July 1999)
Publications
Check out my separate publications page.
Patents
Awarded
- US20050165859 – Method and apparatus for persistent real-time collaboration
- US20050114781 – Multi-column user interface for managing on-line threaded conversations
Filed
- US20060167901 – Live collections
- US20050138566 – User interface, method, system and program product for managing collaboration data
- US20050165891 – Method and system for sensing and communicating the recent social networking activities of a remote user
- US20050166154 – Enhanced instant message status message area containing time/date stamped entries and editable by others
- US20060031332 – Logging external events in a persistent human-to-human conversational space
- US20050165880 – Method and system for sensing and communicating updated status information for remote users accessible through an instant messaging system
- US20080104173 – Third-party application chat integration
- US20080134080 – Contextual alert bubbles for alert management
- US20050131714 – Method, system and program product for hierarchically managing a meeting
- US20080159286 – Contextualized broadcast message channel for activity-centric collaborative computing
- US20090119293 – Computer Method and System for Determining Individual Priorities of Shared Activities
- US20090172573 – Activity centric resource recommendations in a computing environment
- US20080157960 – Alert log activity thread integration
- US20060041440 – Method, system and program product for managing a project
- US20070174768 – Adaptive alert management
- US20090106680 – Drag and drop object attribute assignment for objects in a graphical user interface (GUI)
- US20090172026 – Personalized information filter based on social tags
- US20090186330 – Reusable ad hoc self-posed questions and answers for social network profiles
- US20090187829 – Aggregation and visualization of reused shared lists</
- US20080141144 – Activity objectification for non-activity objects in an activity-centric collaboration
- US20090187865 – Site-wide navigation element for user activity in a social networking site
- US20090187624 – User pivot navigation of shared social media
- US20080120545 – Interactive alert bubbles for alert management
- US20060190555 – Wrapping non-live objects for liveness
- US20070168885 – Sorting and filtering activities in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment
Awards and Scholarships
- IBM Research Science Accomplishment, 2012
- IBM Performance Award, 2009
- IBM Research Accomplishhment Award (Lotus Connections), 2009
- 7 IBM Patent Plateau Awards, 2004 – 2012
- IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, 2007
- IBM Leadership Excellence Program, 2005
- IBM Performance Award, 2005
- AACE Best Paper Award, World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 1998
- IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems 1996
- Research scholarship granted by IBM Research Heidelberg, Germany, and the Ministry of Science and Education of Baden Württemberg, 1996 – 1998
- Met the requirements for high school scholarships for gifted students funded by the German Ministry of Science and Education, 1985
IT Skills
- Web App Dev : J2EE, HTML, HTTP, Javascript, CSS, XML, SQL, Hibernate, MyBatis, Postgres, DB2 on Windows and Linux servers
- Desktop App Dev : Java, SWT, JFACE, Swing, Eclipse-based Applications
- Less recent experience (alphabetic order): Basic, C / C++, COBOL, Estelle, Gauss, Pascal, IP Multicast, RTP / RTCP, SIP, Tcl/Tk, TCP, UDP, Visual Studio
Languages
- German: native
- English: fluent written and spoken
- French: good knowledge
