Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Paper accepted at SSDBM
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database...
JWS Article Accepted
Integrating Open Government Data with Stratosphere for more Transparency Arvid Heise and Felix...
LREC Paper Accepted
The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul,...
Daniel Rinser wins award for his masters thesis
IQ Best Master Degree Wettbewerb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informations- und Datenqualität e....
HPI TV releases video about GovWILD
See the new video about our Government Data Integration platform GovWILD.
Tool voidGen released
As part of our winning submission at the 2010 Billion Triple Challenge at the International...
ICDE Paper Accepted
28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Washington, DC, USA Adaptive...
Senior Researcher in Information Systems
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik
| Contact Information gjergji.kasneci(at)hpi.uni-potsdam.de Prof.-Dr.-Helmert Str. 2-3, 14482 Potsdam Phone: +49 331 5509 178 Schufa Lab |
Research Interests
- Knowledge Engineering
- Web Mining
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Crowdsourcing
Consultation Hours
- Thursdays: 14:00 -15:00 or by appointment
Recent Publications
- Michal Kosinski, Yoram Bachrach, Gjergji Kasneci, Jurgen Van Gael, Thore Graepel: Measuring the Intelligence of Crowdsourcing Platforms. Web Science 2012.
- Enkelejda Tafaj, Gjergji Kasneci, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Martin Bogdan: Bayesian Online Clustering of Eye-Tracking Data. ETRA 2012.
- Yoram Bachrach, Thore Graepel, Gjergji Kasneci, Michal Kosinski, Jurgen Van Gael: Crowd IQ - Aggregating Opinions to Boost Performance. AAMAS 2012.
- Weiwei Cheng, Gjergji Kasneci, Thore Graepel, David H. Stern, Ralf Herbrich: Automated Feature Generation from Structured Knowledge. CIKM 2011, p:1395-1404.
- Gjergji Kasneci, Jurgen Van Gael, David H. Stern, Thore Graepel: CoBayes: Bayesian Knowledge Corroboration with Assessors of Unknown Areas of Expertise. WSDM 2011, p:465-474.
Recent Professional Activities
- 2011: Committee member of WWW 2012
- 2011: Committee member of EDBT 2012
- 2011: Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering (TKDE)
- 2010: Committee member of EDBT 2011
- 2010: Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering (TKDE)
- 2010: Panel member for the ECIR Industry Day 2010, on leveraging semantics for better search experience
- 2010: Organizer of reading group on Information Extraction and Semantic Technologies at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, (12 weeks)
Presentations
- 2011: Invited talk at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Oxford: Knowledge from the Web: Understanding and Reasoning
- 2011: Invited talk at the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington: Bayesian Knowledge Corroboration with Logical Rules and User Feedback
- 2011: Lab Tutorial on large-scale information extraction, knowledge representation, and knowledge search at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
- 2010: Invited talk at the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge: Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages
- 2010: TAB talk at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK: Bayesian Knowledge Corroboration, Learning from Crowds
- 2010: Invited talk at True Knowledge, Cambridge, UK: Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages
- 2008: Invited talk at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK: The YAGO-NAGA Project: From Web Pages to Knowledge
- 2007: Invited talk at the Informatics Department of the University of Dortmund: The Complexity of Reasoning about Pattern-Based XML Schemas
Education & Professional Experience
- 2009 - 2011: Post-Doc Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
- 2009: 3-months internship with Microsoft Research Redmond, US
- 2006 - 2009: PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 2004: 3-months internship with Siemens Medical Solutions, Germany
- 2000 - 2005: Student of Computer Science and Math at the University of Marburg, Germany
Scholarships, Prizes & Awards
- 2011: Runner-Up for Best Poster Award at the 4th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011)
- 2010 - 2011: Grant of $130.000 by Microsoft Research for co-leading a research project on probabilistic inference and knowledge representation (with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani)
- 2006 - 2009: Scholarship from e-fellows.net (private sector online scholarship, supported by Deutsche Telekom, McKinsey et al.)
- 2006 - 2009: Fellowship from the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (full funding of PhD studies)
- 2003 - 2006: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Deutche Studienstiftung)