Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Seidl    Full Professor
Phone:    +49-241-80-21900 / 901 (Fr. Klee)
Consultation-hour:    Mo, 13.00 - 14.00 Uhr
Room:    6321 (Anmeldung 6320)
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Homepage:    http://www-i9.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/team/seidl/
Publications:    124 entrys

Fields of activity

Research Topics - Forschungsgebiete

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

Membership in Program Committees (peer reviewed full papers)

• ICDE 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005 (Demos), 2002
• EDBT 2010, 2009, 2008, 2002
• SSTD 2009 (PC co-chair)
• SSDBM 2010
• SIGMOD 2007, 2006, 2004
• VLDB 2006, 2005
• KDD 2009, 2005, 2004
• BTW 2009, 2007 (General co-chair)
• Others: DASFAA 2006, VISIM 2001, IWOSS 1999

Reviews for journals

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

Miscellaneous (degrees, former affiliations, etc.)

Short CV

Thomas Seidl is a full 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 MSc (Diplom) in 1992 from TU Muenchen and his PhD (1997) and venia legendi (2001) from LMU Muenchen.

Former Affiliations

• 1998-2002, University of Munich: Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, member of the Database Group with Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel.
• 2001-2002, University of Constance: Substitute Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Data Mining & Visualization Group substituting Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim.
• 2001, University of Augsburg: Guest Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science
• 1993-1998, University of Munich: Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Computer Science, member of the Database Group with Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel

Offers for Professorships

• Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Austria (full prof. Database and Information Systems, 2002)
• Technische Universität München (assoc. prof. Bioinformatics, 2002)
• Technische Universität Clausthal (assoc. prof. Database Systems, 2002)

Academic Degrees

• July 2001: Habilitation for Computer Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a thesis on Content-Based Retrieval in Multimedia Databases.
• Nov. 1997: Dr.rer.nat. (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a thesis on Adaptable Similarity Search in 3-D Spatial Database Systems (Herbert Utz Publishers) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel.
• Nov. 1992: Dipl.-Inform.Univ. (M.Sc. in CS) from the Technische Universität München with a thesis on Requirements of an Object Store (in German) under supervision of Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D.

Miscellaneous

• Member of ACM SIGMOD and of GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik
• A picture from the VLDB`98 banquet (New York)
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