Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Seidl    Professor
Phone:    +49-241-80-21900/01
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:    104 entrys

Fields of activity

Research Topics

• Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Databases: Demos - Proteins - Local User Guide
• (Object-) Relational Indexing - RI-Tree demo
• Molecular Bioinformatics
• CAD Databases
• Project on Visual Data Mining

recent invited talks

• Data Mining für Dokumenten-Datenbanken. AKM-Workshop Militärgeschichte, RWTH Aachen, 23.09.2004 [Slides]
• Nearest Neighbor Search on Multimedia Indexing Structures. Tutorial on 1st Int‘l Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases (CVDB) in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD, June 13, 2004, Paris, France [Slides]

Scientific Reviewing Service

• Membership in program committees (peer reviewed full papers)
  IEEE ICDE 2008,EDBT 2008,ACM SIGMOD 2007,GI BTW 2007,VLDB 2006,ACM SIGMOD 2006,IEEE ICDE 2006,DASFAA 2006,VLDB 2005,ACM KDD 2005,IEEE ICDE Demos 2005,ACM SIGMOD 2004,ACM KDD 2004,IEEE ICDE 2002,EDBT 2002.
• Reviews for journals
  ACM TODS,IEEE TKDE,VLDB Journal,KAIS,IEEE TVCG,IPL.

Miscellaneous (degrees, former affiliations, etc.)

• 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 (Database and Information Systems, 2002)
  • Technische Universität München (Bioinformatics, 2002)
  • Technische Universität Clausthal (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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