User:Andreas Harth

Andreas Harth works as post-doctoral researcher at Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology after pursuing a Ph.D. with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds a Dipl.-Inf. (FH) (a nearby equivalent to the U.S.-style M.Sc.) from Fachhochschule Würzburg. Andreas worked as intern at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Würzburg (1998/1999) and at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, CA (2001). He visited USC's Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey, CA as a research assistant (2003/2004). His research interests are large-scale data interoperation on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, knowledge representation, computational logic and user interaction on web data. Andreas has published over a dozen papers in these areas, and is author of several open source software systems. Two of his systems were awarded prizes at the Semantic Web Challenge co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference. In addition, he has participated in numerous EU and national projects, participated in various program committees, and has served in the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment and Rules Interchange Format working groups. Andreas served as programm committee member of numerous conferences and is one of the co-organisers of the Consuming Linked Data (COLD) workshop.