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Prof. J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director of the HathiTrust research center and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to visit DKE

On September 9th, 2019, Prof. J. Stephen Downie will visit our research group and give a talk titled ‘‘Extracted Features: HathiTrust and Beyond’’. The talk will take place in our seminar room (FC 0.10) at 2 p.m. and is open to all students and faculty members. J. Stephen Downie is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of [...]

2022-03-28T16:12:54+02:00August 20th, 2019|

DAAD presents new stipend program and interviews Bela Gipp

The DAAD, or the German Academic Exchange Service, has recently announced a new Stipend Program called ''IFI'' (Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatikerinnen und Informatiker). The IFI Program is available to Master’s students, Ph.D. candidates, and Postdoctoral researchers enrolled at German Universities and studying or researching in the field of Computer Science. Participants of the IFI Program receive funding to research abroad for up to [...]

2024-01-13T14:27:30+01:00August 17th, 2019|

Bela Gipp to give a talk at ETH Zürich

ETH Zurich's DOI Desk is organizing a full-day event on "Persistent Identifiers in Research" to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) help ensure the discoverability of digital objects on the Internet. For example, the assignment of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for scientific publications has become a common practice in many disciplines. PIDs have become increasingly important to scientific research. [...]

2024-01-13T14:27:23+01:00July 15th, 2019|

Anastasia Zhukova wins Women’s STEM Award 2019

Anastasia Zhukova won the international competition for the Women’s STEM Award 2019 (prize money 3,000 EUR) for her master’s thesis compiled in our group.The thesis titled“Automated Identification of Framing by Word Choice and Labeling to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles”is available for download.German Telekom and the students’ magazine audimax jointly organize the competition, which in 2019 attracted 140 submissions of high-profile graduate theses [...]

2022-06-15T15:50:26+02:00July 5th, 2019|

Opportunities for research stays at NII Tokyo

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Planas, Director Global Liaison Office of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) presented opportunities for research stays at the NII in Tokyo for master students and researchers (Ph.D. / Postdoc) in computer science or related disciplines (e.g., IT, Electrical Eng., Mathematics, Physics, etc.). Visitors to the NII can complete their master’s thesis or part of their research while being [...]

2022-06-20T10:44:39+02:00June 18th, 2019|

BUW introduces Bela Gipp as new professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering

Dr. Bela Gipp, previously Junior-Professor of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, has been appointed Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal.   You can find the German press release here.   At the School of Electrical, Information and Media Engineering, Prof. Gipp focuses on data analysis, the extraction and visualization of information from large databases, [...]

2024-01-13T14:27:27+01:00April 3rd, 2019|

Monique Meuschke wins ISINA Best Poster Award

A poster summarizing Monique’s doctoral research won the first prize in a nationwide contest held by the Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in the MINT Field (ISINA). The winning poster is titled “Visualization, Classification and Interactive Exploration of Risk Criteria for Cerebral Aneurysms” (Download the poster). ISINA is a platform for knowledge transfer and exchange on topics such as interdisciplinary research, success strategies [...]

2022-06-20T10:21:40+02:00April 2nd, 2019|

Launch event of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD)

The Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD) has officially launched at the University of Wuppertal, on March 25th, 2019. Our group is excited to be closely associated with this newly founded center, and Bela Gipp is looking forward to serving as a member of the steering committee. The successful launch event was attended by over 270 members of [...]

2024-02-26T19:14:00+01:00March 28th, 2019|

Funding granted for a 3-year, interdisciplinary research project

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded us 3-year research grant for the project „Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media Bias“ The project aims to automatically identify specific instances of media bias, thus ultimately helping news consumers to more effectively and efficiently become aware of media bias in news coverage. The interdisciplinary research will be [...]

2022-06-17T12:05:19+02:00November 27th, 2018|
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