About

Wolfgang Nejdl (born 1960) 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, PUC Rio, Trento and Politecnico di Milano.

Prof. Nejdl heads the L3S Research Center, as well as the Data Science Institute / Knowledge Based Systems, and does research in the areas of Information Retrieval, Web Science, Artificial Intelligence, Social and Semantic Web, Digital Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning. He was PI of the ERC Advanced Grant ALEXANDRIA, from 2014 - 2019, working on foundations for temporal retrieval, exploration and analytics in Web archives. Current projects include NoBIAS, SoBigData++, the International Leibniz Future Lab on Artificial Intelligence, with a special focus on personalized medicine, and DAISEC, a European Digital Innovation Hub to innovate through AI and Cybersecurity, especially in the areas of production, mobility and skilled crafts. Wolfgang Nejdl published more than 420 scientific articles, as listed at DBLP, with an h-index (based on Google Scholar) of 78.