Dr. Roman Kern#

Vitae#

Senior researcher and project coordinator at Knowledge Technologies Institute, Graz University of Technology.

Roman Kern Born: July 6, 1973, in Graz, Citizen of Austria , Inffeldgasse 13/8010 Graz, Know-Center GmbH , romankern@acm.org, Tel: 0676 5143125, http://kti.tugraz.at/staff/rkern/about/

Short CV#

Roman Kern works as Ass.Prof. (Laufbahnstelle) at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Technical University of Graz and is the head of Knowledge Discovery at the Know-Center (competence centre for Big Data analytics and data-driven business). He was awarded his Ph.D. by the Graz University of Technology. Before working in research he gained experience in industry projects as project manager, software architect and software engineer ranging from big and medium sized companies to small start-ups.

Roman’s research interest are multi-disciplinary and include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval - with a focus on Data Science and Big Data Analytics. He applies these methods in fields like Scientific Publication Mining, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Smart Production. His work includes writing of proposals for national and international research projects; He serves as coordinator, work package lead, scientist in charge and national contact point for numerous research projects, ranging from small national projects to big European projects.

In his work his mission is to close the gap between science and industry via research projects, consulting and knowledge transfer. The demand in skills from real-world application scenariosalso influences his teaching activities at the Graz University of Technology.

Main Achievements#

• Managed to grow a team from 4 people in 2012 to 30 people in 2020 – Incubator for highly skilled experts, including successful spin-offs/start-ups ∗ e.g. http://invenium.io/en/ (spin-off), https://www.itranslate.com/ – Multi-disciplinary team ∗ e.g. computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, … Developed multi-year research agendas (2x funding periods of 4 years), – Reviewed and approved by international experts ∗ Each funding periods is associated with a budget of 6 million Euro, • Lecturing and supervision in computer science and software engineering, – Responsible for 5 courses (2x bachelor, 3x master) ∗ Finalist of the bi-annual TU Graz award of excellent teaching (2018), – Supervise and advise students (40+ finished bachelor and master thesis since 2014), – Founding & leading the TU Graz Data Team (participation at challenges, e.g., Kaggle) • Proposal writing & research project management – Initiated and participated in numerous proposal (14 in 2016, 16 in 2017, 18 in 2018) ∗ Success rate of 16% in 2016, 24% in 2017 (budget of 900k avg. per year) – Coordinator and work package leader for international research projects ∗ From 3 partners up to 80 partners (total budget up to 62 million Euro) • Publication count & invited talks – 100+ publications, including 3 best paper awards – Successful participation at scientific challenges ∗ e.g. best team at Social Book Search Shared Task @ INEX/CLEF 2016 - Keynote speaker and invited talks for academia and industry • Organising conferences & workshops – 2 workshops in 2016, 2 workshops in 2017, 1 workshop in 2019 – Co-organiser of i-KNOW conference series starting in 2015

Research#

Natural language processing, machine learning,information retrieval, data science: ORCiD 0000-0003-0202-6100

Experience#

2015–Now Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria, ivovliung reserch, teaching and student supervision Obtained a numer of awards and pariticipated/organized numerous large projects, became Area Head (Knowledge Discovery) http://www.know-center.tugraz.at/en/research/areas/knowledge-discovery/ as a Leader of a team of 20+ researchers, data scientists and developers; Invited talks and presentations for academia and business, Coordinator for a EU Marie Curie project (TEAM, IAPP), software developer and software architect, 2001–2006 with Hyperwave R&D, 1996–2001 wiht Daimler / DaimlerChrysler as software architect (web-based enterprise applications)

Publications (as of April 2020) #

File with all publications with Kern as co-author