Rudi Studer
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Rudi Studer

German computer scientist

Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at KIT, Germany. He served as head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI).2

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Born 1951.1

About

He is a former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, an STI International Fellow, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editors-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the "Semantic Wikipedia" proposal which led to the development of Wikidata.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Stuttgart3

He obtained a degree (1975) and a PhD (1982) in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, researcher, professor, computer scientist.7

  • Date not recordedWorked at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology4 5
  • Date not recordedFounded Ontoprise GmbH6

From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at IBM Germany, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems. In November 1989 he became professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He led his research group in Semantic Web technology, and was involved in establishing international conferences and journals in this area.

Rudi Studer was also director in the department Information Process Engineering at and one of the presidents of the Research Center for Information Technology as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that developed semantic applications.

He is a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and German Informatics Society.

His research interests span over the main topics important for semantic web technology, including knowledge management, knowledge engineering, ontology management, data and text mining, and semantic web services.

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Personal life

  • Born1951, Stuttgart8
  • CitizenshipGermany9
  • ResidenceKarlsruhe10