Alumni
Researchers
Dr. rer. nat. Conny Junghans, post-doctoral researcher 2009-2011
Adaptive Data Mining Techniques for Streaming Data, PhD Thesis, Conny Franke, University of California, Davis, 2009.
Head of Mail Data Products at 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH
Prof. Dr. Erich Schubert
, post-doctoral researcher 2016-2018
Professor, Informatik VIII Group at Computer Science Department of the University of Dortmund, Germany
Dr. Johanna Geiß, post-doctoral researcher 2014-2018
Data Scientist at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. Sergei Yakneen, external PhD student 2015 - 2019
Modern Systems for Large-scale Genomics Data Analysis in the Cloud, PhD Thesis, April 2019
Chief Technology Officer at Isomorphic Labs
Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Spitz
, PhD student 2015 - 2019Implicit Entity Networks: A Versatile Document Model, PhD Thesis, April 2019
Junior professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Konstanz University
Dennis Aumiller, PhD student 2019-2023
Member of Technical Staff at Cohere's Data and Evaluation team, Philadelphia, USA
John Ziegler, PhD student 2020-2024
Jayson Salazar, PhD student 2021-2024
Dr. rer. nat. Tran Van Canh, PhD student 2010-2014
Data Scientist at Daimler Mobility, Germany.
Dr. rer. nat. Le Van Quoc Anh, PhD student 2010-2014
Pattern Discovery from Event Data, PhD Thesis, September 2014
Dr. rer. nat. Ayser Armiti, PhD student 2010-2015.
Geometric Graphs: Matching, Similarity, and Indexing, PhD Thesis, February 2015.
Data Scientist at Transit, Stuttgart, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. Hui Li, PhD student 2013-2018 
Social Network Extraction and Exploration of Historical Correspondences, PhD Thesis, February 2018
Data Scientist at TrustYou, Munich Area, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Sengstock, PhD student 2009-2015
Geographic Feature Mining: Framework and Fundamental Tasks for Geographic Knowledge Discovery from User-generated Data, PhD Thesis, February 2015
Head of Product Management at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG, Walldorf, Germany
Dr. rer. nat. Jannik Strötgen, PhD student 2009-2015
Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Event-centric Information Retrieval, PhD Thesis, March 2015
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe (prev. BCAI, MPI-Inf, Heidelberg University)
Dr. rer. nat. Hamed Abdelhaq, PhD student 2011-2015
Localized Events in Social Media Streams: Detection, Tracking, and Recommendation, PhD Thesis, February 2016.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at An-Najah National University, Palestine
Dr. rer. nat. Florian Flatow, PhD student 2010-2013
Feature-based Vector Field Representation and Comparison, PhD Thesis, February 2016
Senior Data Management Specialist at Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
Philip Hausner, PhD student 2020-2021
Software Engineer at Vector Informatik, Heidelberg
Sebastian Lackner, PhD student 2018-2020
Co-Founder and CTO Sysmagine GmbH
Gerrit Kazmaier, external PhD student 2013-2015
Vice President & General Manager for Database, Data Analytics & Looker at Google
Thomas (Bögel) Weßling, PhD student 2013-2015
Katarina de Jong - Gavric, PhD student 2012-2015
Chapter Lead Data EngineeringChapter Lead Data Engineering at ING
Former Student Assistants
Holger Wünsche (system administration)
Marina Walther (project related software development)
Satya Almasian (news article data acquisition)
Niels Bernöhr (project related system administration)n)
Matthias Brandt (project related system administration)
Mohammad Dawas (NLP pipeline maintenance)
Carine Dengler (Wikipedia data extraction)
Leonard Henger (project related system administration)
Christian Kromm (event repository maintenance)
Julian Libor (historic letter data)
Moritz Mock (historic letter data)
Ludwig Richter (event repository maintenance)
David Stronczek (NLP pipeline maintenance)
Julian Zell (HeidelTime temporal tagger)