Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz University
Professor
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl has been a full professor of computer science at Leibniz Universität Hannover since 1995. He studied Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology (Dipl.Ing. 1984, Dr.techn. 1988), was Assistant Professor in Vienna and Associate Professor at RWTH Aachen. He worked as a visiting researcher / professor at Xerox PARC, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, EPFL Lausanne, PUC Rio, Uni Trento and Politecnico di Milano.
Prof. Nejdl heads the L3S research center, www.L3S.de, and conducts research in the fields of information retrieval, web science, artificial intelligence, social and semantic web, digital libraries and technology enhanced learning. From 2014 to 2019, he was Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant ALEXANDRIA, where he worked on foundations for temporal search, exploration and analytics in web archives. Current projects include NoBIAS, SoBigData++, the International Leibniz Future Lab on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular focus on personalized medicine, and DAISEC, a European Digital Innovation Hub for innovation through AI and cybersecurity. He is also involved in the Leibniz AI Academy, which introduces AI into various degree programs at Leibniz University, including mechanical engineering, geoscience and education, and is a member of the interdisciplinary Leibniz Research Initiative on Digital Education.
Wolfgang Nejdl has published more than 440 scientific articles listed at DBLP, with an h-index (based on Google Scholar) of 78.
