Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp
Professor for Scientific Information Analytics &
Scientific Director of the SUB (State and University Library Göttingen)
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Bela Gipp (Dr.-Ing.) holds the chair for Scientific Information Analytics at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and is the Scientific Director/Vice Director of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB).
His research interests lie at the intersection of Information Science and Data Science. His group’s research focuses on developing and applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and methods for retrieving, analyzing, and visualizing information in large datasets. The implications of blockchain technology—for the benefit of both industry and society—is another research domain that Bela is passionate about.
Previously, Bela was a full professor at the University of Wuppertal, where he held the chair for Data & Knowledge Engineering from 2018 to 2022. Before that, Bela served as a junior professor at the University of Konstanz, where he led the Information Science Group from 2015 to 2018. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science (summa cum laude) at the University of Magdeburg in 2013. He conducted the majority of his doctoral research abroad while on a 4-year research scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, he also made use of the proximity to the Silicon Valley to found the tech start-up SciPlore and co-found Docear. After his Ph.D., he received postdoctoral research fellowships at U.C. Berkeley and the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
In his youth, Bela participated in Jugend Forscht, Germany’s premier youth science competition. After winning 1st place at the state-level competition three times, he was honored by the German Chancellor and Germany’s Federal President. Scholarships allowed him to study semesters abroad in Sydney, Beijing, Staffordshire, and at UC Berkeley. Today, he is involved as a jury member and mentor for Jugend Forscht and tech startups.
Bela has published over 200 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, in addition to several books and patents, which have received more than 10,000 citations; his h-index is approximately 50. Currently, he is the PI of these DFG-funded projects. He has secured over 10 million EUR in third-party funding and venture capital investments for his research thus far. Additionally, he maintains active research collaborations with industry. For example, he founded OriginStamp AG, based in Switzerland.
Bela serves as a DFG-nominated member of the Digitality in Science Initiative of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany. He is a member of the scientific advisory board for the DAAD Program offering International Research Stays for Computer Scientists and the internationalization officer of the Institute for Computer Science. In his spare time, Bela enjoys photography, designing, building, and flying innovative drones, and he loves to paraglide in the Alps.
SHORT CV
Since April 2022
Full Professor (W3) for Scientific Information Analytics
University of Göttingen, Germany
and since June 2024:
Scientific Director / Vice Director of the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB)
University of Göttingen, Germany
2018 – 2022
Full Professor (W3) for Data & Knowledge Engineering
Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany
2018
2015 – 2018
Junior Professor (W1)
Head of the Information Science Group
University of Konstanz, Germany
2014 – 2015
Postdoc
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
2013 – 2014
Postdoc
University of California (UC) Berkeley, USA
2009 – 2013
Research Fellowship
UC Berkeley, School of Information & Department of Statistics, USA
Ph.D. defense in 2013 at the University of Magdeburg, Germany
1999 & 2001 & 2002
Jugend Forscht
1st place at the state level of the German research contest “Jugend Forscht” in the years 1999, 2001, and 2002. Read more in this STERN article or here & here.
CURRENT THIRD-PARTY PROJECTS
| Project Title | Begin – End | PI & (PM) at GippLab |
Funding Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism |
04/20 – 08/26 | Gipp, Schubotz (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Digitalization Professorship Scientific Information Analytics |
04/22 – 12/28 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
MWK |
| The Syrian and Arabic Ahiqar Manuscripts: Edition, Textual and Motif-Historical Analysis |
01/24 – 01/26 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Development of an Innovative AI-based Recommender System in the Chemical Process Industry Based on an Innovative Domain-Adaptive Multilingual Language Model (SPELL) |
01/24 – 08/26 | Gipp (Zhukova) (Meuschke) |
BMWE |
| Melchior Hoffman: Complete Works. Critical-Documentary Hybrid Edition |
01/24 – 09/26 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Hannah Arendt. Critical Complete Edition | 01/24 – 10/26 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Edition of the Ugaritic Poetic Text Corpus (EUPT). Web portal for philological and poetological analysis |
01/24 – 08/27 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| LibraryAI — Explorative Development and Testing of a Virtual Library Research Assistant Application |
12/25 – 11/28 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Researching with Derivatives: Solutions for Providing Rights-Protected Materials Online |
12/25 – 11/27 | Gipp (Kurzawe) |
DFG |
| Library Automation through AI Technologies | 12/25 – 11/28 | Gipp (Kurzawe) |
MWK |
| Establishment of a network and services for research information |
01/26 – 12/28 | Gipp (Meuschke) |
MWK |
| Digital Geochemical Data Infrastructure (DIGIS) for GEOROC 2.0 |
01/26 – 12/28 | Gipp (Kurzawe) |
DFG |
| AI in Museums | 12/25 – 11/27 | Gipp (Wahle)(Ruas) |
MWK |
| Edition, Artificial Intelligence, and Lexicography Interdisciplinary Approaches and Digital Methods for Working with Early New High German Texts |
12/25 – 11/29 | Gipp (Wahle)(Ruas) |
MWK |
| Paraphrase Types: A New Paradigm for Paraphrase Generation and Detection |
03/26 – 02/29 | Ruas
(Wahle) |
DFG |
| Development of a novel, user-centered, multimodal multi-agent assistance system for first-time plannable, descriptive, and reproducible workflows aimed at process optimization and the development of continuous improvement measures in the process industry. |
08/25 – 11/27 | Gipp (Wahle) |
BMWE |
| The Bias Analysis Research Infrastructure (BARI) | tbd 36 mo. |
Gipp (Spinde) |
DFG |
| TextLPG – Exploratory Research of Text as a Labeled Property Graph |
tbd 36 mo. |
Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
| Fake News Detection in Video and Text | 04/25 – 12/26 21 mo. |
Gipp (Wahle)(Ruas) |
KIPOT |
| Digital Media Workflow II: Cooperative Data Infrastructures for AI and TDM |
tbd 36 mo. |
Gipp (Meuschke) |
DFG |
NEWS
Interview of André Greiner-Petter about his research stays in Tokyo
In the latest issue of campusinform, our group member André Greiner-Petter reports on his research stays in Tokyo, experiences in Japan, and the DAAD scholarship programs he benefitted from and recommends to others. Visit this page to learn more about [...]
Bela serves as a DFG-nominated member of the Digitality in Science Initiative of the Alliance of Science Organizations
At the invitation of the DFG, Bela Gipp will participate in the Alliance focus area ‘Digitality in Science’ from 2024 onwards. The objectives are described here: Digital tools and their development, including artificial intelligence and machine learning Digital science depends [...]
Collaborative AI project with our industry partner eschbach wins Best of Industry Award
The Smart Search functionality our group helped to devise and integrate into the flagship product of our longstanding industry partner eschbach won the Best of Industry Award 2023 in the Artificial Intelligence category. Smart Search is integrated into Shiftconnector—eschbach's enterprise [...]
ACL 2023 – Neural Machine Translation for Mathematical Formulae
Authors: Felix Petersen, Moritz Schubotz, Andre Greiner-Petter, Bela Gipp Contact: Links: Paper The paper received the best video award: https://youtu.be/2JQSgrrltRM?si=f4gjVUvoIhNhj4Z1 Keywords: formula translation, equations, special functions, mathematical language processing, content language, presentation language, latex, semantic latex, mathematica
Faktor Magazine podcast interviews Bela Gipp
The podcast of Faktor Magazine released an episode with Bela Gipp discussing the opportunities and threats of AI, specifically of AI-generated text, in the context of academic research and education. In the interview, Bela touches on some of his current research [...]
Profile of Bela Gipp and his research group
The recently released 2022 Annual Report of Göttingen University introduces Prof. Bela Gipp and his newly established Professorship for Scientific Information Analytics (GippLab) at the Institute for Computer Science and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB). In the interview, [...]
Interview with Bela Gipp: “Fehlende Offenheit ist das Problem”
Read the full article as here or in the faktor magazin.
Talk: KI — Fluch & Segen at faktor Business Lounge
Norman Meuschke gave a talk on the Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence at the 39th faktor Business Lounge. Read the report about the talk here or in the faktor magazine.
We’re Hiring Ph.D. Students and Postdocs
Current Calls Two PhD Researchers - NLP-Reasoning for Low-Resource German (all genders welcome). Apply here. Two PhD Researchers — LLM Pre-Training & RAG (all genders welcome). Apply here. One Researcher — NLP Metadata Enrichment of Museum Texts Apply here. [...]
NDR Synapsen Podcast with Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke
Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke recently appeared on the ''Synapsen'' Science Podcast by NDR Info. Alternatively, you can listen to it on the NDR website. The topic of the episode was: Keine Angst vor Künstlicher Intelligenz? The podcast [...]
Interview of Bela Gipp on the Opportunities and Risks of AI for University Teaching
The local newspaper, Göttinger Tageblatt, interviewed Bela Gipp on the opportunities and risks of AI for university teaching. Read the article here or online.
Malte Ostendorff Receives his PhD
We are delighted to announce that Malte Ostendorff has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Aspect-based Document Similarity for Literature Recommender Systems’’ on April 25th, 2023. The research objective of Malte’s thesis was to improve literature recommendation systems by proposing [...]
Invitation to Meet-up on AI in Open Science
Our group will participate in the next Open Science Meet-up on the Role of AI in Open Science organized by the State and University Library Göttingen. Everyone is cordially invited to participate in this free hybrid event (online and in-person). [...]
Dennis Trautwein receives the Applied Networking Research Prize
Our PhD candidate Dennis Trautwein has received the prestigious Applied Networking Research Prize awarded by the Internet Research Taskforce. The prize recognizes the best recent results in applied networking and interesting new research ideas with potential relevance to the Internet [...]
Talk by Dr. Saif M. Mohammad (NRC) on Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language
We are delighted to announce the talk "The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language" by Dr. Saif M. Mohammad. When & where: December 14, 15:00-16:00 (sharp), Alfred-Hessel-Saal in the SUB's historic building (Campus Map | Google Maps) About the speaker: Dr. [...]
André Greiner-Petter reports from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Our group member, Dr. André Greiner-Petter was selected to visit the prestigious annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The HLF is a weeklong conference that gives young researchers the opportunity to connect with international research pioneers and Laureates from computer science [...]
Cornelius Ihle receives two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs
Our PhD candidate, Cornelius Ihle, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs. Cornelius investigates approaches to increase user privacy in the IPFS network.
Stern magazine reports on Bela Gipp’s inventions with ”Jugend Forscht”
The German magazine, Stern, just published an article about Bela’s research projects and his inventions while participating in the ‘Jugend Forscht’ competitions as a student. The article also describes one of Bela’s earliest inventions, the “GSM Schutzengel”, with which Bela [...]
Norman Meuschke receives the Airbus Research Award Claude Dornier
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Norman Meuschke was awarded this year’s Airbus Research Award ‘Claude Dornier’ for his outstanding research achievements during his Ph.D. research. The award ceremony took place on July 14th, 2022, at the University of [...]
Our research group moves to the University of Göttingen
Bela Gipp has recently accepted a new full professorship at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Website, Wikipedia page). The new position will be at the intersection of the Department of Computer Science and the research department of the State and University Library (Website, Wikipedia [...]
Felix Hamborg defends his PhD Thesis with ‘summa cum laude’
We are delighted to announce that Felix Hamborg has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards Automated Frame Analysis: Natural Language Processing Techniques to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles” on January 31st. The research objective of this thesis was [...]
André Greiner-Petter receives his PhD
We are delighted to announce that André Greiner-Petter has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Making Presentation Math Computable’’ this January, 2022. Congratulations, André! In his thesis, André researched and developed a context-sensitive approach for translating mathematical expressions from LATEX [...]
Dennis Trautwein receives prestigious PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs Research
Our PhD candidate, Dennis Trautwein, has been awarded a two-year PhD Fellowship from Protocol Labs featuring an $80,000 stipend and an annual travel allowance of $3,000. Designed to support early-stage researchers, the fellowship aligns with Protocol Labs' research interests. Dennis [...]
Panel Discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises
Bela Gipp participated in the panel discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises as an expert on New Technologies. Other participants were Marc Wagner (on the subject of New Work) and Simon Schnetzer (on the subject New Generations). The [...]
TV report on our plagiarism detection research
The regional TV station WDR reports on our plagiarism detection research and our system HyPlag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Xx5ZWDkbM
