Ulf Leser, Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics

Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser

Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics
Telephone: ++49 (0) 30 2093 3902
Fax: ++49 (0) 30 2093 5484
Mail: leser(at)informatik.hu-berlin.de

Visiting address

Institute for Computer Science

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Rudower Chaussee 25

12489 Berlin

Mail address

Institute for Computer Science

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin

Research Teaching Memberships Publications Curriculum Vitae

Research

Data integration
Text mining
Complex databases: modeling, scalability, interfaces
Knowledge representation
A more detailed list

Memberships

Member of the Coordination Board of the Berlin Centre for Genome-Based Bioinformatics
Board member of the Center for Biophysics and Bioinformatics at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Board member of the "Zentrum für Sprachliche Bedeutung" at Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Member of the "Zentrum für Ubiquitäre Informationssysteme" at Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Member of the International Society for Computational Biology
Member of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik
Founding member of the interdisciplinary network on Linguistics, Computer Science, and Bioinformatics
Board member of the Verein "Berliner Centrum für genombasierte Bioinformatik e.v." (in Gründung)
Member of the scientific advisory board of the SMP Bioinformatics, NGFN-II

Professional activities

Reviewer for Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), SIGMOD Record, VLDB Journal, Web Semantics Journal, Nature Reviews Genetics, Trends in Biotechnology, Genome Biology, Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCCB), Journal of Cooperative information Systems (IJCIS), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research (GIF), Dutch Science Council (DSC)
Member of the editorial advisory board of The Open Applied Informatics Journal
Programm committee member of (as of 2005)
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2005
- Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2005
- Workshop on Data and Information Quality (DIQ) 2005
- Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMDB) 2005
- Computational Life Sciences (CompLife) 2005
- Inf. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2006
- Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). PhD Workshop 2006
- World-Wide-Web conference (WWW) 2006
- 3rd Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2006 (Chair)
- Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2006
- European Conference on Machine Learning & Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2006
- Inf. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007
- Int. Conf. on Databases and Expert Systems (DEXA) 2007
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Data Mining Track 2007
- Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM) 2007
- Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) 2007
- 4th Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2007
- Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2007
- ECML/PKDD 2007
- CompLife 2007
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Data Mining Track 2008
- ACM SIGMOD Conference on the Management of Data, 2008
- Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS) 2008 (co-chair)
- Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). PhD Workshop 2008
- Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2008
- 5th Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2008, Evry, France
- German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2008, Dresden
- Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
- ACM SIGMOD Conference on the Management of Data, 2009
- Workshop on Semantic Web, Datenbanken & Corporate Semantic Web (CSWDB-08), Berlin

Curriculum Vitae

Diploma in Computer Science at the Technische Universität München, 1995
Database developer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, 1995-1997
Ph.D. on "Query Planning in Mediator-based Information Systems" at the Technical University Berlin and the Graduate School for "Distributed Information Systems", 1997-2000
Project manager at UBIS AG, 2000-2002
Professor for Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics, 2002 - now

Last Change: 2/2004