Efficient similarity search and data mining in high-dimensional multimedia databases

DBLP

Research:

• Earth Mover's Distance
• Subspace Clustering
• NSIS

Teaching:

• Advanced Data Mining Algorithms, SS 2008
• Exercises
  • Data Mining Algorithms, SS 2007
  • Models Of Data Exploration, WS 2006/07
  • Programming, WS 2005/06
  • Data Mining Algorithms, SS 2005
  • Models Of Data Exploration, WS 2004/05
  • Index Struktures, SS 2004
  • Algorithms and Data Structures, SS 2004
  • Data Mining Algorithms, WS 2003/04
  • Data Structures and Algorithms, SS 2003
• Lecture
  • Search techniques for image databases (lecture series medical image processing), WS 2006/07, WS 2005/06
• Regularly supervision of
  • Seminar theses
  • Proseminar theses

Reviews:

• International Conferences:
  • VLDB 2006 (International Conference on Very Large Databases)
  • ICDE 2006 (IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • SIGMOD 2006 (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data International Conference)
  • KDD 2005 (ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining International Conference)
  • VLDB 2005 (International Conference on Very Large Databases)
  • ICDE 2005 Demos (IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • SIGMOD 2004 (ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining International Conference)
  • KDD 2004 (ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining International Conference)
• International Journals:
  • TODS (IEEE Transactions on Database Systems)
  • TKDE (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering)
  • TVCG (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics)
  • IVS (Information Visualization Journal)
  • IJCA (International Journal of Computers and Their Applications)

Program committee:

• ICDM 2008 (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining)
• EDBT Demo 2009 (International Conference on Extending Database Technology)
• DEXA 2008 (International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Application)
• DEXA 2007 (International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Application)

Administration:

• Course guidance for technical major "Basic computer science" in the study course "Technical Communication" (2003-2008)
• Organisation of the computer science workshop for the Schnupperstudium (Introductory workshops for technical study courses for girls)
• Participation at Girls' Day (German Future Prospects for Girls Day)

Supervised Diplomarbeiten (Master theses):

• Corinna Baldauf (with Philipp Kranen)
• Stephan Günnemann (with Emmanuel Müller and Ralph Krieger)
• Hardy Kremer (with Ralph Krieger)
• Uwe Steinhausen (with Emmanuel Müller and Ralph Krieger)
• Jennifer Herrmann (with Ralph Krieger)
• Tobias Meisen (with Marc Wichterich)
• Christian Beecks (with Marc Wichterich)
• Philipp Kranen (with Marc Wichterich)
• Emmanuel Müller (with Ralph Krieger)
• Farzad Afschari (with Ralph Krieger)
• Eric Camen
• Boris Glavic (with Ralph Krieger)
• Andrea Wenning
• Liviu Munteanu
• Markus Peters
• Mladen Jovic

Background:

• Promotion (Ph.D.) March 2008, RWTH Aachen, With Distinction
• Research assistant at Lehrstuhl für Informatik 9 since 2003 (with six weeks research visit at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, 2006)
• Studied computer science at RWTH Aachen, Diplomarbeit (Master thesis) "Complexity of two-way las vegas automata and related models", 2003 (with semester at IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Languages:

• German
• English
• French
• Japanese (Basics)
• Spanish (Basics)
• Italian (Basics)
• Latin