Advisory Board
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board (AB) is composed of senior researchers, entrepreneurs and decision makers with a high reputation in the project domain and project research fields. The representatives will bring to the project their considerable experience in the conduction and coordination of innovative research projects, but are not directly involved in the project. The AB will be informed on the project results and progress at regular intervals and will meet twice in the course of the project duration to provide suggestions with respect to the project strategic orientations, project research challenges, business and exploitation direction and project support of user needs.
The WeKnowIt Advisory Board cosists of the following members:
- Prof. Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Prof. Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Prof. Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Hildesheim, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Banzhaf, Dean of the Computer Sciences Faculty at St. John, Canada.
- Gerd Stumme, Full Professor of Computer Science. Leader of the Hertie Chair on Knowledge and Data Engineering at the University of Kassel and full member of the Research Center L3S.
- Ρon Kass, CEO of Pidgin Technologies
- Chris Baber, Reader in Interactive Systems Design, expert in user interaction
- Alexander G. Hauptmann, Senior Systems Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Shih-Fu Chang, Professor, Director Digital Video and Multimedia (DVMM) Lab
Electrical Engineering Department Columbia University - Paul Buitelaar, Senior Researcher -- Department of Language Technology, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany