CODIS LAB - Key Persons
Aleksandar's dissertation topic is 'Enhancing the Information Retrieval Processes using Network Analytics' which is a research collaboration with CERN. As part of his research, he investigates how the combination of network techniques and retrieval techniques impacts the information retrieval process, new ways of introducing additional context to data using network techniques and approaches for investigating network structures generated from retrieved documents using various network concepts to identify meaningful connections between documents or concepts.
Alexander's dissertation topic is 'Engaging Learning in Computer Science Education. Within his thesis he designing and evaluating engaging learning approaches in various areas of computer science such as higher education (programming education) or secondary school level (game-based learning approaches, gamification, or adaptive learning).
Indian PhD student Chetna Madan gives an insight into her stay as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology at TU Graz.
Christian Eckhardt, PhD, is a computer scientist, physicist, and software developer, Entrepeneur, founder of the Mixed Reality Lab (MRL) at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2017. The MRL is an graduate research facility emphasizing Christian Eckhardt's main research topics: Mixed Reality, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Physics Simulations.
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- Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems
Christopher Cheong is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University. His research interest involves the application of computational techniques to address issues in various domains, such as business and education. His current research focus is on analytics, persuasive systems, and educational technologies. In recognition of his teaching excellence and technology-enhanced learning research, he was awarded an Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2016 and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018.
David's dissertation topic is "Educational Data Mining In Computer Science Courses", where he investigates how students learn to program in computer science courses, employing advanced source code analysis techniques. The goal is to enhance the teaching and learning process by leveraging data-driven insights to optimize programming education and prepare students well for their future careers.
Sylvia graduated in psychology and educational science; her research interests include digital learning, digital literacy, cognitive processes, development of motivation and interest of young people in the STEM field as well as the evaluation of learning and research environments.
Elias's dissertation topic is ‘"Enhancing Systematic Reviews in Medical Research using Natural Language Processing (NWP)" which is a research collaboration with CERN. His research focuses on the practical application of NLP for more efficient information retrieval, enabling the identification of relevant scientific papers and the automatic extraction of insights for specific research questions. The primary aim is to streamline the process of conducting systematic reviews in the realm of medical research.
TU Graz researcher Elisabeth Lex wants to use artificial intelligence and machine learning not only to understand people better, but also to improve their very personal music suggestions.
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- Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems
France Cheong is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain at RMIT University. His current research interest is on enterprise artificial intelligence as well educational technologies.
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- Years at the Head of TU Graz
Twelve years, three terms of office - no one before Harald Kainz can look back on such a long period of activity as Rector at TU Graz. He sums up his time in an interview with TU Graz people.
His Thesis Title is 'User Navigation and Information Retrieval in Multidimensional Information Space for Push Notification Systems' which is a research collaboration with CERN. The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to research and prototype an information retrieval and user navigation approach and system that will be used by the CERN Push Notification System.
Katya Alvarez-Molina, PhD is an audio/sonic interaction designer and an enthusiast of music with 10+ years in music technology. Katya has been involved in different electronic art projects. Her research areas include algorithmic creation, embodied music cognition, design of interactive music systems, and HCI tools and techniques in music.
David is a University Assistant with a diploma in computer science; His research interests include educational data mining, computer science education, data science, and code analysis. In addition, he holds courses at TU Graz, with a particular focus on learning to program and object-oriented programming.
Krzysztof Pietroszek is a Polish/Canadian computer scientists and filmmaker. His research and art projects involve designing volumetric capture equipment, telemedicine technologies, persuasive virtual and augmented reality, interaction techniques for artificial reality continuum, applications of machine learning to animation and volumetric capture, and interactive narrative and montage in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.
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- Research Assistant at Saarland
Lea Marie Müller, M.Ed., is a research assistant at Saarland university for mathematics primary school education. Her research areas include learning and teaching with digital media in the field of mathematics, immersive learning with technologies like Augmented Reality, the development and the evaluation of learning environments.
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- Co - Founder of TIMEULAR GmbH
At TU Graz, I was able to formulate my start-up idea while carrying out my master's thesis work and, with the support of my teachers, take the first steps towards assessing the market maturity for this idea.
In the Start-up Garage (Gündungsgarage), mentors supported me when I had to tackle complex questions. In addition, the four-month accelerator programme with like-minded people created a challenging and supportive group dynamic, enabling all of us to move forward more rapidly and learn from each other. Universities need hands-on initiatives like the Start-up Garage to spark the students' entrepreneurial interests, regardless of whether they are able to pursue these interests or not. As in academia, we learn the most from making mistakes in entrepreneurship.
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- Researcher
- Sustainable Hydrogen Systems With a Future
At the TU Graz Science for Future Science Day, fuel cell researcher Merit Bodner will give one of the two keynote lectures. The main topic here is the replacement of substances of concern in hydrogen systems.
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- Founder of Invenium Data Insights
In 2013, together with my co-founders, I had the idea to create a basis for the digitalisation of the mobility survey by using newly developed analyses. Thus, I founded the company Invenium Data Insights.
I'm convinced that you also have revolutionary ideas. An idea is the starting point of the journey, which will require a great deal of perseverance and stamina from you and will demand business-related soft skills, as well as strategic planning and vision.
Michaela Vesela is a Czech Ph.D. student in automation control and informatics with a diploma in system engineering and informatics, and accounting and taxes. Her research focuses on language large models in the context of emotion. Her dissertation topic is "Answer whisperer based on the nature of the user's previous conversations".
He was working on his thesis with the title 'Virtual Director - A Concept for Automatic Vision Mixing of Live Video Streams'. Rene developed this concept in the realm of several European research projects and applied and evaluated it in use cases for group video communication, live event broadcast and theatre performance.
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- Chief Scientific Officer at the Know
Roman Kern > About on Roman Kern https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/ Recent content in Roman Kern > About on Roman Kern Hugo -- gohugo.io en-uk About https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/about/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:56:27 +0200 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/about/About Roman Kern is the head of Knowledge Discovery at the Know-Center (competence centre for Big Data analytics and data-driven business) and works at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Technical University of Graz. 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. https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/schedule/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/schedule/Schedule Overview of the topics presented and discussed at the reading group: Date Title Citation Category Presenter 06.05.2021 Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates $\rightarrow$ [Keith2020] [@Keith2020] Causal Inference, NLP Roman 29.04.2021 A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls [@cinelli2020crash] Causal Inference Michael 22.04.2021 Mechanisms, Modularity and Constitutive Explanation [@Kuorikoski2012MechanismsMA] Representations Houssam 15.04.2021 Learning Representations of Semantic Concepts and their Causal Relationships Video, Slides Representations, ML, NLP Philipp 01.Roman Kern > Courses https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/courses/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/courses/Courses Lectures Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 1 (INP.31101UF/INP.31202UF) More information in TechCenter Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2 (706.715), Homepage Natural Language Processing (706.715), Homepage Introduction to Scientific Working (706.015), Homepage More information about the courses can be found on TUGOnline, as well as the TechCenter. All courses can be conducted remotely with lectures in the lecture hall, which are recorded and made available on TUbe. Thesis, Seminars, & Projects Bachelor Project Bachelor’s Thesis DiplomandInnen Seminar Seminar/Project (various catalogues) Master Project Master’s Thesis For all the presentations of the seminars/projects/thesis please see the calendar of the seminar.Roman Kern > Curriculum Vitae https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/cv/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/cv/About Roman Kern is the chief scientific officer at the Know-Center (competence centre for Big Data analytics and data-driven business) and works at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Technical University of Graz. 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 Kern > Projects https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/projects/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/projects/Research Projects Running Projects REWAI Topic: Improve the resource consumption in a use case in the textile industry. Here methods from causal discovery and explainability are applied to gain a deeper understanding in the production process and reduce waste and energy consumption. Description Europlanet The Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (EPN-2024-RI) will provide the pan-EU infrastructure needed to address the major scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science and strengthen Europe's position at the forefront of space exploration.Roman Kern > Publications https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/publications/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/publications/Publications Roman is a multi-disciplinary researcher and combines fundamental research (conducted on the University of Technology in Graz) and applied research (conducted on the Know-Center). Here just a subset of all publications are listed to provide an initial overview. A list of all publications is available via: Google Scholar Roman Kern > Seminar https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/seminar/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/seminar/Seminar In the seminar, presentation are given for Master’s/Bachelor’s thesis, and Master/Bachelor projects. The audience are mostly fellow students. To participate consider to subscribe to the mailing list: rktalks.isds Calender You can access the calender also via TU Graz Cloud ICS File The number of speakers and the topics (once confirmed) are found within the calender entries. Book a slot There are regular announcements on the mailing list with links to register for an upcoming presentation slot.Roman Kern > Thesis https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/thesis/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://courses.isds.tugraz.at/rkern/about/thesis/Thesis Options There are mainly three options for the thesis: Choose a topic, or propose an own topic and work on your own (see list below for options) (this is the default option) Collaboration with local start-ups, or companies (paid Master’s thesis) Work together with a research partner organisation Template Feel free to use the Latex thesis template (based on input from Karl Voit and Keith Andrews): Template, and preview
Roman Kern is the chief scientific officer at the Know-Center (competence centre for Big Data analytics and data-driven business) and works at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Technical University of Graz. 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, data science, and machine learning - with a focus on causal inference and discovery. 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 served 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.
Researcher; Chiara graduated in psychology and is currently studying adult and continuing education; her research interests include digital learning, digital literacy, cognitive and motivational processes and the evaluation of learning and research environments.
Her dissertation topic is 'Automatic Summary Generation of Scientific and Information Repositories', which is a research collaboration with CERN. For this, she investigates different ways of extracting the main points of information from a variety of inputs, and explores the possibilities for further processing into a singular information source.
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- CEO & Founder of Doro Turbinen GmbH
My mechanical engineering studies at TU Graz provided me with the expertise to ask the right questions and find technically applicable answers for these.
The Start-up Garage (Gründungsgarage) was the crucial contact point for actually pursuing my start-up idea. I had been carrying the idea and the knowledge about the technical implementation around with me for a long time. However, I lacked the economic know-how and the contacts to partners and networks, which would allow me to commercialise the product. The Start-up Garage gave me a lot of support here, saved me a great deal of time and money and served as the springboard to the Science Park Graz.
Today, doro Turbinen GmbH is internationally active and is in contact with turbine producers from India and Southeast Asia. The decentralised supply of rural areas with small power plants is an attractive option for many emerging countries, helping them to counteract the rising demand for electricity.
doro-C is a plug and play (PnP) small hydropower plant that was developed to exploit the potential of unused shallow water in ways that are simple to develop and environmentally friendly.
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- Christoph GRIMMER and Florian GEBETSROITHER, Founders of EET GmbH
When you begin to develop your start-up idea, you often don't know how to take the first step. At this point, we were supported by two departments at TU Graz: In the Research & Technology House, we received fantastic support on the entire topic of intellectual property (IP) and, in the Science Park Graz, we received great support that helped us turn our business idea into reality.
Looking back, we can safely say that two out of three necessary forms of support came directly from TU Graz. We recommend every founder to get in touch with TU Graz in order to set off on the exciting journey of founding a company.
I'm an associate professor at Graz University of Technology and research area manager at the Know-Center.
His dissertation topic is 'Devising Prototype Model for Assessing the Digital Competencies Based on DigComp Framework'. The research investigates methods and frameworks for assessing digital skills and competencies in order to devise an assessment model. Moreover, it focuses on integrating the digital skills framework for learning, teaching, and assessing digital skills with an adaptive learning strategy.
Student Project Assistant; she studies Softwareengineering and Management at TU Graz, while also visiting psychology courses. Stefanie is assisting the CoDis Team with the editorial activities on the Journal of Universal Computer Science and she is writing her bachelor thesis on the Collaboration Spotting Tool from CERN.