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
Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society
Scientific research does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, scientists and society both benefit from continuous and close collaboration. In this manner, new insights and solutions from academia can be directly applied to real-world problems, allowing innovation to be incrementally [...]
Newspaper FAZ reports on our research to detect and deter academic plagiarism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) describes how our research on novel plagiarism detection methods and blockchain-backed decentralized trusted timestamping facilitates combating plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. Read the article on the FAZ website or here (click on the article to enlarge):
Editorial for the KlarText Award reports on our research on plagiarism detection and trusted timestamping
The KlarText Award recognizes excellent achievements in understandably communicating scientific findings to a general audience. The editorial for the KlarText Award 2020 discusses the longstanding problem of plagiarism and fraud in academia and presents our research on plagiarism detection and [...]
Funding approved for 3-year research project by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
We are happy to announce that the DFG (German Research Foundation), has awarded our group a research grant for our project: “Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism”. The total funding sum of 633,000 Euro will be made available over a 3-year period [...]
DFG approves funding for Research Training Group: ‘Document – Text – Edition’
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the continuation application of the University of Wuppertal to fund a Research Training Group (DFG Graduiertenschule) centered around the topic of: "Document - Text – Edition. Conditions and Forms of Transformation and Modeling: a Transdisciplinary Perspective". Bela Gipp is among the scientific directors of this Research Training Group at the University of Wuppertal. The [...]
Newspaper WZ reports about Corinna Breitinger’s research in recommender systems for COVID-19 publications
The full article is available here.
Newspaper WZ reports on our plagiarism detection system HyPlag
The Westdeutsche Zeitung interviewed our group member Norman Meuschke about HyPlag and our other efforts to aid in the prevention and detection of academic plagiarism. Read the report (in German).
University of Wuppertal reports on our HyPlag project
A news post (in German) featured on the main page of the University of Wuppertal’s website reports on our plagiarism detection research as part of the HyPlag project.
Wikipedia rolls out our research on providing semantic information for mathematical formulae
As of January 9, Wikipedia allows semantically enhancing mathematical formulae with the definitions of the terms they contain. For example, the formula of the famous mass-energy equivalence E=mc² now contains information on the variables E, m, and c. Clicking on the formula opens an information [...]
Bela Gipp to give keynote at KO:MON Convention 2019
Bela Gipp will give a Keynote at the KO:MON convention in Bremen on September 19th. KO:MON is Germany’s largest industry forum for monitoring and control room technology. Due to the growing demand for intelligent systems in industry, infrastructure, and in many service sectors, monitoring and control tasks are becoming increasingly important. This year, the convention is in its 11th year. It [...]
New team member: Terry Ruas
We're happy to announce that this week, Terry Ruas (Ph.D.) joined our research group. Terry Ruas has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan – Dearborn (USA). His research interests lie at the intersection of [...]
Prof. J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director of the HathiTrust research center and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to visit DKE GalleryProf. J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director of the HathiTrust research center and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to visit DKE
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 [...]
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 [...]
Folge #036 – Blockchain für alle
To listen to the podcast by Bergisch.io (in German), please chose one of the following links: or on Bergisch.io
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Misconceptions about Trusted Timestamping
Trusted time-stamping can be very useful, but it is crucial to understand what it can prove and what it cannot prove. Timestamping can only prove that the time-stamped data, such as a photo, a video, pdf, etc. already existed [...]
OriginStamp and Südkurier collaborate
Our startup, the OriginStamp AG, now collaborates with the German Newspaper Südkurier to offer their readers our Trusted Timestamping Service. Here you find articles reporting about this collaboration: June 2019 „Die Blockchain ist ein digitales Notizbuch“ Source: Südkurier Read more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Article about our group member Felix Petersen
An article about our group member Felix Petersen appeared in campus.kn. Felix won several prizes at Jugend forscht and will complete his Bachelor in Computer Science at the age of 19. Full article about Felix is published in campus.kn.
