Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Seidl    Full Professor, Head of Group
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:    132 entrys

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.

Membership in Program Committees (peer reviews for full papers)

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

Reviewing for journals

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

Further Memberships and Awards

• Editorial Board of The VLDB Journal: Associate Editor (2009-2015)
• Scientific Advisory Board of the ArchaeoBio-Center, LMU München
• Outstanding Reviewer Award of IEEE ICDE 2010
• Member of ACM SIGMOD and GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik

Miscellaneous (degrees, former affiliations, etc.)

Short Bio

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 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 Universit�t M�nchen (TUM): Study of Computer Science, MS thesis in databases with Prof. Bayer; Diplom (MS) in 1992.

Miscellaneous

• A picture from the VLDB`98 banquet (New York)
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