Dr. Otthein Herzog, Professor

1966-1967           General Studies at the Leibniz Kolleg, Universitaet  Tuebingen

1967-1969           Studies of Electrical Engineering at the Universitaet Stuttgart

1969-1970           Studies of Informatics at the Universitaet Karlsruhe
1979-1972           Studies of Informatics and Mathematics at the Universitaet Bonn,
                               Diploma (MSc) in Applied Mathematics and Informatics
1976                      Dr. rer.nat. from the Informatics Department, Universitaet Dortmund

1977 - 1993        with IBM in several technical and managerial positions in
international software product development and research. His projects included mainframe operating systems, quality assurance (DOS/VSE and Unix), communications software, full-text information retrieval systems (IBM SearchManager), CIM repository systems, and a system for environmental impact analysis for the EXPO 2000.

1985 to 1991      Head of the IBM Institute for Knowledge-based Systems in the Scientific Center of IBM Germany, numerous AI research projects, the most important one being LILOG - Natural Language Processing and Text Understanding.

since 1999           he is an affiliate professor at the George Mason University, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, formerly directed by the late Dr. Ryszard Michalski, and now by Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak.

2000 - 2002         CTO at Lenze AG, responsible for hardware and software development.

1993 - 2009        Chair for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mathematics and Computer
 Science
at the Universitaet Bremen heading the Artificial Intelligence Research Group.

since 2009          supervising many PhD students, directing research projects, and acquiring new projects at Universitaet Bremen

since 2010          “Wisdom Professor for Visual Information Technologies” at  Jacobs University Bremen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he is also a founding member of the Research Centers "VisComX - Visual Communication and Expertise" and the “Humanities Research Center”

 

His current research interests at TZI/Universitaet Bremen include:

·         Multi-agent systems for modeling and simulating autonomous processes and integration of heterogeneous data sources, e.g., for production and logistics networks,

·         Data mining and knowledge discovery techniques with applications in, e.g., network security, and dynamic knowledge management in autonomous processes.

·         Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing for industrial and end user applications in production, logistics, maintenance, healthcare, and for first responders,

·         Automatic content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for content-driven multimedia archiving, retrieval, and video abstracting.


Within the Universitaet Bremen, Dr. Herzog continues to contribute to the interdisciplinary activities of the

·         the LogDynamics - Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics,

·         the Graduate School Advances in Digital Media,

·         the International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics,

·         the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology, and

·         Embedded Microsystems Bremen (EMB).

 

His current research interests at Jacobs University Bremen as a faculty member of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences include:

·         Automated semantic analysis of videos in cooperation with Prof. Peter Ludes, Mass Communications

·         Informatics for the Humanities.

 

Dr. Herzog is a Fellow of acatech – the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, where he is a
        member of the Executive Committee with the portfolio “International Relations” and
        Vice Coordinator of the acatech Topical Network “Information and Communication Technology”


Dr. Herzog is also a Fellow of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik, and member of the DAGM and the ACM.

 

He also serves as

        Trustee and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Birlinghoven,

        member of the IFIP Board of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik.

        member of the Advisory Board of InES -Institute for Enterprise Systems, an interdisciplinary Research Institute for Enterprise Systems at the University of Mannheim,

        member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Excellence Cluster “Intelligent Technical Systems Ostwestfalen-Lippe

 

Here you will find a recent list of his Publications.


Addresses:

Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog

 

SHSS

Jacobs University

P.O. Box 75 0561

28725 Bremen

 

TZI - FB 3
Universität Bremen
P.O. Box 33 0440

28334 Bremen, Germany

Offices:

Research IV - Campusring 1, 28759 Bremen

Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen

Phone SHSS: 

Phone TZI:

+49-421-200-3404

+49-421-218-64003

Fax:

+49-421-218-64047

eMail

herzog(at)tzi(dot)de