CV

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General Information 

Research Group Leader 
L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany

Profiles: Google Scholar, DBLP, bibsonomy, LinkedIn

Office Address
L3S Research Center
Appelstr. 9a
30167 Hannover
Germany

e-mail: demidova at l3s dot de
phone: +49 511 762 17776
www: https://demidova.wordpress.com

Professional Experience

• 01.2017 –  Research Group Leader (from 08.2018), Senior Researcher, Project Coordinator, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany.
• 01.2016 – 12.2016 Senior Research Fellow, WAIS Group, ECS, University of Southampton, UK.
• 06.2006 – 12.2015  Post-Doc researcher (02.2013 – 12.2015), Project leader (01.2014 – 12.2014), Research fellow, PhD student (06.2006-01.2013). L3S Research Center and Institute of Distributed Systems, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
• 12.2003 – 12.2005 Research / student assistant. University of Osnabrück, Germany. CASHMERE-int project.
• 09.2002 – 08.2003 Intern in software development. MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mosbach, Germany. Development of data mining software.
• 12.2000 – 08.2002 Student assistant. Osnabrück University of Applied Science, Germany. Development of software for mathematical analysis.

Qualifications

• 04.2017 Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK.
• 01.2013 PhD in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.) Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. Grade “very good”. PhD Thesis: “Usability and Expressiveness in Database Keyword Search: Bridging the Gap”. [pdf] [TIB catalogue]
• 03.2006 M.Sc. in Information Engineering, University of Osnabrück, Germany and University of Twente, The Netherlands. Grade “very good”.
• 06.2003 Computer Science Engineer (Media Informatics, Dipl.-Inf. (FH)) German grade: 1.58 (in the top 30% of the year). Osnabrück University of Applied Science, Germany.

Languages

• Russian: mother tongue
• German: business fluent
• English: business fluent
• Spanish: basic knowledge

Memberships in professional organisations

• ACM – Association for Computing Machinery (from 2016)
• GI – German Association for Informatics (2014 – 2015)

Community Activities

• Workshop & Tutorial co-chair, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018.
• Advisory Board Member of the WDAqua ITN from 2017.
• Member of the W3C Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data Community Group.
• Main organizer of the PROFILES workshop series: International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Web Data.
  • PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH @ TheWebConf 2018 (former WWW)
  • PROFILES 2017 @ International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017
  • PROFILES 2014-2016 @ Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014-2016
• Guest editor for the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality. Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs.
• Guest editor for The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Special Issue on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data, 12(3), 2016.
• Journal Reviewing
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer)
  • Semantic Web Journal (IOS Press)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases (Springer)
  • International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer)
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier)
  • Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge Journals)
  • Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (LNCS Springer)
• Programme Committees
  • The Web Conference (WWW), 2019
  • Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2019
  • KOGPIT 2019 Workshop “Best Practices for (IoT) Knowledge Graphs”
  • The Web Conference (WWW), 2018
  • International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2016-2018
  • International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS), 2017, 2018
  • ACM Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci), Poster Track, 2017
  • International KEYSTONE Conference (IKC), 2017
  • International Conference on Semantic Systems, Posters & Demos, (SEMANTiCS), 2016
  • QALD Challenge 2017, Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-7), ESWC 2017
  • Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2015-2016
  • International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (KESW), 2015-2016
  • International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), 2015
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013

Awards

Best demo award, 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009).

Acquired Project Funding 

• Cleopatra, 2019-2022. Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN). EU H2020. PI.
• Simple-ML, 2018-2021. “Big Data Machine Learning Workflows leicht gemacht”. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. PI.
• Data4UrbanMobility, 2017-2020. Data Driven Mobility Services for the City of the Future. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. PI.
• QROWD, 2016–2019. Crowdsourcing Big Data. EU H2020. Proposal coordination.
• KEYSTONE COST Action, 2013-2017. Semantic Search in Structured Data. COST EU. Co-PI.

Networking and Travel Grants

• Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) “Interlingual Information Extraction in Temporal Web Collections”, ISST Laboratory, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2017.
• ACM SIGIR Travel grant, 2010.

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