Data Streams 2007 - Speaker

Dr. Michael Ley, University of Trier

Michael Ley was born in 1959. He grow up in Neuss near Düsseldorf (Germany). After finishing school he worked in hospital to fulfill his alternative civilian service (Zivildienst) as the system administrator of the hospital's central computer system. From 1979 to 1987 he studied computer science at Aachen University of Technology, the subsidiary subject first was electrical engineering, later he changed to medicine. In the diploma thesis the memory management of the Unix BSD 4.1 kernel was ported from VAX to MC68010 microprocessors. 1993 he finished his PhD at the University of Trier, since then his holds a position as a lecturer ('akad. Oberrat'). The PhD thesis was about implementation techniques for specialised database systems, the thesis was part of IBM project 'LILOG' in the field the field of computer linuistics.

Dr. Reza Razavi, Ambient Activity Systems Consulting

Software researcher and entrepreneur, the research interests of Dr. Reza RAZAVI include Networked Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. He published more than 10 articles in these areas. His current focus is on applications of Wireless Sensor Networks to full lifecycle traceability and sustainable development (http://www.atrace.eu). He received an MS degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Please contact him at razavi@acm.org

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg

• Oct 1980 - Mar 1983 study of Mathematics at TU Darmstadt
• Apr 1983 - Mar 1986 study of Mathematics at Uni Würzburg
• Apr 1986 - Mar 1990 assistant at TU Karlsruhe, Uni Würzburg, and Uni Bremen
• Jun 1989 PhD ( thesis thesis: "Design and Implementation of Multi-Dimensional Index Structures", in German)
• Apr 1990 - Sep 1991 PostDoc at University of Waterloo (Ontario)
• Okt 1991 - Mar 1995 Assistant Professor at Uni München
• Dec 1994 Habilitation ( thesis: "Low-Level Optimization in Database Systems: A Case for Multi-Page Requests")
• Apr 1995 - Jun 1999 Associate Professor at Uni Marburg
• Apr 1999 - Sep 1999 Visiting researcher at CMU
• since June 1999 Full Professor at Uni Marburg

Prof. Dr. El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille

Prof. Talbi is Head of the research team OPAC (Parallel Cooperative Optimization) and scientific leader of the INRIA Futurs project DOLPHIN (Discrete Multi-objective Optimization with Hybrid Distributed Techniques). Moreover, he heads the CIB (Bioinformatics Center) of the Genopole of Lille and SCOPE (PArallel Simulation, Computing, Optimisation Parallèles and Distributed Environments) of the LIFL Laboratory. Prof. Talbi is co-fondator et co-animator of the group META ( Metaheuristiques : Theory and Applications) of the association ROADEF (Recherche Opérationnelle et Aide à la Décision), GDR ALP and GDR MACS.

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