Short Biography:

• I studied computer science at the RWTH Aachen University and received my diploma (master) degree in June 2002
• From June, 2002 on I worked as a system developer for Micos Security Systems (now Bosch Security Systems)
• I started as a research assistant at the Chair for Computer Science 9 at April 2003

Research Interests:

Efficient Density Estimation for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, including:

• anytime classification by efficient density estimation
• clustering sequence databases
• density based subspace clustering

Projects:

• Subspace Clustering
• NISIS

Teaching:

• Exercises
  • Data Mining Algorithms, SS 2007
  • Models of Data Exploration, WS 2006/07
  • Index Structures, WS 2005/06
  • Data Mining Algorithms, SS 2005
  • Models of Data Exploration, WS 2004/05
  • Index Structures, SS 2004
  • Algorithms and Data Structures, SS 2004
  • Programming, WS 2003/04
  • Data Structures and Algorithms, SS 2003

• Regularly supervision of
  • Seminar theses
  • Proseminar theses
  • Practical courses

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)
  • IPL (Information Processing Letters)
  • VLDB Journal (The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases)
  • KAIS (Knowledge and Information Systems)

Supervised Diploma Thesis:

• Hardy Kremer: Time Warping-basierte Ähnlichkeitssuche in großen Videodatenbanken
• Uwe Steinhausen:  Outlier Detektion in heterogenen Sensordaten
• Jennifer Herrmann: Effiziente Bayes Klassifikation mit Hilfe von  hierarchischen Indexstrukturen
• Till Schulte-Coerne: Strukturorientierte Analyse von Internetströmen
• Emmanuel Müller: Effizientes dichtebasiertes Subspaceclustering
• Farzad Afschari: Indexbasierte Ähnlichkeitssuche in Sequenzdatenbanken für das Dynamic Time Warping Distanzmaß
• Petra Welter: Lokal selektive Klassifikation mit Subspace-Clustern
• Boris Glavic: Subspace Clustering for Sequences of Ordered Categorical Data
• Boris Kaiser: Modulares Konzept zur Datenbereitstellung für den E-Commerce im Mittelstand