Wolfgang Nejdl#
Short laudation by Hermann Maurer#
Wolfgang Nejdl, born 1960 in Vienna, Austria, has been full professor of computer science at the University of Hannover since 1995. He received his M.Sc. (1984) and Ph.D. degree (1988) at the Technical University of Vienna, was assistant professor in Vienna from 1988 to 1992, and associate professor at the RWTH Aachen from 1992 to 1995. He worked as visiting researcher / professor at Xerox PARC, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, EPFL Lausanne, and at PUC Rio.
Prof. Nejdl heads the L3S Research Center (http://www.L3S.de
) as well as the Distributed Systems Institute / Knowledge Based Systems (http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de), and does research in the areas of search and information retrieval, information systems, semantic web technologies, peer-to-peer infrastructures, databases, technology-enhanced learning and artificial intelligence. Some recent projects in the L3S context include the PHAROS Integrated Project on audio-visual search, the OKKAM IP focusing on entities on the Web, the Digital Library EU project LiWA, coordinated by L3S, which investigates Web archive management and advanced search in such an archive, and the FET IP project LivingKnowledge, which is developing algorithms and methods to handle and exploit diversity, bias and opinion on the Web.
Wolfgang Nejdl published more than 230 scientific articles, as listed at DBLP and ISI, and has been program chair, program committee and editorial board member of numerous international conferences and journals, most recently including the role of general chair for AH'08 in Hannover, and PC chair for WWW'09 in Madrid, see also http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~nejdl/.
In 2006 Wolfgang Nejdl started the iSearch IT Solutions company, HUhttp://www.isearch-it-solutions.de/UH, which focuses on commercializing research results from L3S projects in the area of digital libraries, search and web engineering.
Wolfgang Nejdl has influenced a large group of students, post-docs and colleagues with the foundation of the L3S center whose annual 5 million Euro budget is basically based on EU projects, most with Wolfgang Nejdl himself as main researcher. The fact that L3S is currently considered a prosepective Leibniz Center says it all: Wolfgang Nejdl has managed to turn a small research group into a powerful organization dedicted to state of the art “Web-Science” as one would summarize most recent research. The first nominator has been on the advisory board of L3S for a number of years and hence had the opportunity to deeply investigate research carried out by Wolfgang Nejdl and his associates.
Wolfgang Nejdl is a a super active and talented organizer, yet ranks around 2500 in Citeseer, and is listed as one of the most often cited authors both by ISI and DBLP. His international visibility, due to his many talks at conferences and in institutions is very high.
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