Fields of activity

Research Topics - Forschungsgebiete

• Data Mining: Subspace Clustering, Outlier Detection, Stream Data Mining, Anytime Mining Algorithms, Visual Data Mining.
• Database Technology: Similarity Search, Content-based Multimedia Retrieval, Relational Indexing, Energy Efficiency in Mobile Databases.

Memberships in Program Committees (peer reviews for full papers)

• BTW (GI) - 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007 (General co-chair)
• CIKM (ACM) - 2012 (Senior PC)
• DASFAA - 2006
• ECML PKDD - 2012, 2011
• EDBT - 2013, 2012 (Demos), 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2002
• ICDE (IEEE) - 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005 (Demos), 2002
• KDD (ACM) - 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2005, 2004
• MDM (IEEE) - 2012
• PAKDD - 2012, 2011
• SDM (SIAM) - 2011, 2010
• SIGMOD (ACM) - 2007, 2006, 2004
• SSDBM - 2012, 2010
• SSTD - 2011, 2009 (PC co-chair)
• VLDB - 2006, 2005
• Workshops: DBRank 2011, StreamKDD 2010, MultiClust 2010, VISIM 2001, IWOSS 1999

Reviewing for journals

• ACM TODS, VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TPAMI, DAMI/DMKD, Data Knowl. Eng., KAIS, IEEE TVCG, IPL, Information Systems

Further Memberships and Awards

• ECML PKDD 2011: Best Paper Award in Data Mining
• Outstanding Reviewer Award of IEEE ICDE 2010

• Member of the Editorial Board of The VLDB Journal (Associate Editor, 2009-2015)
• Member of the SSTD Endowment
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ArchaeoBioCenter at the University of Munich
• Member of ACM SIGMOD and of ACM SIGKDD
• Member of GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik
• Member of REGINA (Regional Industry Club Informatics Aachen)

Miscellaneous (degrees, former affiliations, etc.)

Short Bio

Thomas Seidl is a professor for computer science and head of the data management and data exploration group at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His research interests include data mining and database technology for multimedia and spatio-temporal databases in engineering, communication and life science applications. Prof. Seidl received his Diplom (MSc) in 1992 from TU Muenchen and his PhD (1997) and venia legendi (2001) from LMU Muenchen.

Curriculum Vitae

• 2002-, RWTH Aachen University: Full professor and head of the new Department for Computer Science 9 (Data Management and Data Exploration).
• 2001-2002, University of Constance: Substitute professor and head of the Department for Databases, Data Mining and Visualization.
• 2001, University of Augsburg: Guest lecturer at the Department of Computer Science.
• 1998-2002, University of Munich (LMU): Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science with Prof. Kriegel (Database Group); Venia legendi for Computer Science in 2001.
• 1993-1998, University of Munich (LMU): Research and teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science with Prof. Kriegel (Database Group); Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in 1997.
• 1987-1992, Technische Universität München (TUM): Study of Computer Science, MS thesis in databases with Prof. Bayer; Diplom (MS) in 1992.

Further Links

• [DBLP Trier] -- [DBLP Trier 2] -- [ACM Authorizer] -- [CiteSeer] -- [Google Scholar] -- [MS Academic Search] -- [MS Academic Search: Data Mining, last 5 years]
• My h-index is 24 according to Harzing's Publish or Perish result on Feb 23, 2012 to the query ("Seidl T", NOT "T* Seidl":eng)