Prof. Dr. Christoph Schommer

Head of ILIAS - Interdisciplinary Lab for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems

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Address: Campus Kirchberg, ILIAS Laboratory - MINE Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science and Communication, 6 Rue Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg. Email: FirstName.LastName @ uni.lu; Phone: 466644.5228@+352 - Building G, Room G108.

Leading the interest group 'Computational Finance' (with Prof. Grammatikos, LSF).
Faculty Member of SnT - Interdisciplinary Institute for Security and Trust
Founding Member of APUL - Association of the Professors of the University of Luxembourg
Member of Cognitive Science Society, Gesellschaft fuer Kognitionswissenschaft und ACM
Links: Academia.edu, ERCIM. European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics; ArnetMiner; linkedIn profile plus endorsements; Latest CV

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I am interested in the following disciplines: Data and Text Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Systems, Bio-inspired Computing, Anomaly Detection and Outliers, Artificial Companions.
I am interested in the life-cycle process of Data, Information, and Insights.

Current Projects:
- ESCAPE (2012-15; Efficiency, Spreading of Crisis and Algorithmic Policy Evolution / Project Lead by Prof. Grammatikos, LSF.

Former Projects:
- ADAM (2005-07; Adaptive Associative Memories) / Project Lead
- TRIAS (2005-08; Trust and Reliability in Agent Systems; with Prof. van der Torre, Dr. Weydert) / Project Lead
- ICC (2006-09; Inventing Communities of Communication; with Dr. Patrice Caire) / Project Lead
- Evo-Business (2005-08; Evolutionary Computing and e-Business) / Project Lead by Prof. Bouvry.
- Intra (2004-07; Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks) / Project Lead by Prof. Sorger + Prof. Malvetti.

consulere - nunc

Sviatlana Danilava (PhD candidate)
Mihail Minev (PhD candidate)
Fabien Bouleau (PhD candidate), in cooperation with SES Astra
Roxanna Bersan (PhD candidate)
Dimitrios Kampas (PhD candidate)

Co-supervision of Andreas Chouliaras (ESCAPE) PhD candidate, PhD candidate of Prof. Grammatikos and in cooperation with Luxembourg School of Finance.
Co-supervision of Dennis Shirnin, PhD candidate in the group of Prof. Zampunieris.
Co-supervision of Philippe Blanca, PhD candidate in the LCMI research group with Prof. Charles Max.
Co-Supervision of MSc. Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, working in the project between with SnT and CETREL (Project lead: Prof. Bjoern Ottersten).
Co-supervision of MSc. Llio Humphreys, working with Prof. Leon van der Torre and Prof. Guido Boella, University of Torino.

consulere - antea

Dr. Jayanta Poray
Dr. Sascha Kaufmann
Dr. Maria Biryukov
Dr. Michael Hilker
Dr. Patrice Caire (member of the group from 2005 until 2006)

MSc. Ben Schroeder (2005 - 2007), Dipl. Inf. (FH) Ralph Weires (2006 - 2008).
List of Master/Diploma/Bachelor Students in Luxembourg, Frankfurt/Main, and Potsdam.
see also FdSI - Freunde der Saarbruecker Informatik e.V.

Conference Organization

Seminar Series 2010 - sponsored by the FNR
Seminar Series 2007 - sponsored by the FNR
Seminar Series 2005- sponsored by the FNR

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Contacts

Member of Programme Committees

ECML/PKDD (2013)
CogSci 2013 - Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2011, '12, '13).
ICCM - International Conference on Cognitive Modelling 2013.
ICAART - International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2011, '12, '13, '14).
IEEE Conference on Computer-Based Medical Systems CBMS (2007, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13).
IEEE Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) - Special Track on Soft Computing (2010).
IEEE Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2010, '11, '12, '13).
IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2013)
ICNC - International Conference on Neural Computation (2010).
ECDM - European Conference on Data Mining (2012).
NCTA - International Conference on Neural Computation - Theory and Application (2011, '12, '13).
BNAIC - Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2010).
Evolve (2011, '12, '13).
ICAS - 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (2013).

Reviewer of Journals

IEEE Journal on Parallel and Distributed Systems. IEEE Society.

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Focal Point @ UL - IBM University Relations

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Founding Member of APUL - Association of the Professors of the University of Luxembourg
since 04/2011: Faculty Member/Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust, Luxembourg (SnT)
since 04/2009: Associate Professor, University of Luxembourg. Dept. of Computer Science and Communication.
since 2007: Jury member of Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science.
04/2004 - 03/2009: Director of Studies, Master of Science in Information and Computer Sciences (MICS)
11/2003 - 03/2009: Assistant Professor, University of Luxembourg. Dept. of Computer Science and Communication.
01/2004 - 12/2008: Committee of the GI eV - Regional Group Trier/Luxembourg.
07/1995 - 12/2008 Member of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V.
8 years industrial experience (1996 - 2003) - IBM Software Group Berlin (IT Architect), IBM R&D Boeblingen (Senior Consultant), and IBM Global Services, Frankfurt/Main (Consultant). International consultation in England, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Egypt, and China. Member of the IBM Patent Program and IBM Publication Program (IBM Research, Almaden).
Lecturer at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2001-2007).
Lecturer at the University of Potsdam (2002-2003).
doctor philosophiae naturalis in Computer Science from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main in 2000 (Roberto Zicari, Wolfgang Giere).
Research assistant at the Database group (Roberto Zicari) of the JW Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (1994-96).
Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Saarbruecken and DFKI (Wolfgang Wahlster, John Nerbonne) in 1993.
HiWi at the DFKI Saarbruecken: Graphical Explosion of Scenes (Wissensbasierte Informationspraesentation - WIP) and Design and Implementation of a Connectionist Architecture to foster Disambiguation on natural language (= Architectures for Speech and Language - ASL)