Professor at Freie Universitiät Berlin, Germany

Prof. Adrian Paschke is head of the Corporate Semantic Web group (AG-CSW) at the institute of computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). He is also director of RuleML Inc., vice director of the Semantics Technologies Institute Berlin (STI Berlin) and leads the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup Group. He received his Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technical University Munich (TUM, German Elite University) with a thesis on Rule-based IT Service Management and Service Level Agreements. His academic carrier has let him to the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU, German Elite University), the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen/Nuernberg (FAU), the Technical University Munich (TUM, Germany Elite University), the Technical University Dresden (TUD), and the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB, German Elite University). He was also working as a research staff member at the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada, and the Biotec Innovation Centre Dresden in Germany. Adrian was involved in multiple industrial software development und business engineering projects and has led several knowledge and business/service engineering projects. He is project leader of several open-source projects such as RBSLA, Rule Responder, Prova, project leader of national projects such as the BMBF project Corporate Semantic Web, and project leader of international projects such as the Transatlantic BPM Education Network. He is steering-committee chair of the RuleML Web Rule Standardization Initiative, co-chair of the Reaction RuleML technical group, founding member of the Event Processing Technology Society (EPTS) and chair of the EPTS Reference Architecture working group, voting member of OMG, and member of several W3C groups such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group, where he is editor of several W3C Semantic Web standards.