General Information
Professor of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
Profiles: Google Scholar, DBLP, bibsonomy, LinkedIn
Office Address
Institut für Informatik III
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8
53115 Bonn
Germany
e-mail: elena.demidova at cs.uni-bonn dot de
phone: +49 (0)228 / 73-69560
www: https://demidova.wordpress.com
Professional Experience
- from 10.2020: Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, Germany.
- 08.2018 – 09.2020 Research Group Leader, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany.
- 01.2017 – 07.2018 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
- Poster co-chair, The Web Conference 2021.
- Editorial board member of the Semantic Web Journal (SWJ), IOS Press.
- Doctoral consortium co-chair, TPDL 2020.
- Workshop & Tutorial co-chair, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018.
- Advisory Board Member of the WDAqua ITN 2017-2018.
- Member of the W3C Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data Community Group.
- Organizer of the Cleopatra workshop series: International Workshop on Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics
- Cleopatra 2021 @ The Web Conference 2021
- Cleopatra 2020 @ ESWC 2020
- Organizer of the PROFILES workshop series: International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Web Data.
- PROFILES 2020 @ The 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2020
- PROFILES 2019 @ The 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2019
- PROFILES & DATA:SEARCH @ TheWebConf 2018 (former WWW)
- PROFILES 2017 @ The 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017
- PROFILES 2016 @ The 13th ESWC Conference 2016
- PROFILES 2015 @ The 12th ESWC Conference 2015
- PROFILES 2014 @ The 11th ESWC Conference 2014
- Guest editor for the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality. Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri.
- 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)
- Senior Programme Committee Member
- Programme Committee Member
- SIGKDD 2021, Applied Data Science Track
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021)
- ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM 2021)
- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)
- International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2020, TPDL 2021)
- ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020, CIKM 2013)
- ESWC 2020 PhD Symposium
- International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2019)
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2019, ACM SIGIR 2020, ACM SIGIR 2021).
- The Web Conference 2018, 2019, 2021 (WWW 2018, WWW 2019, WWW 2021).
- The International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2016-2019 (ISWC 2016, ISWC 2017, ISWC 2018, ISWC 2019, ISWC 2020, ISWC 2021).
- International Conference on Semantic Systems 2016-2019 (SEMANTiCS 2016, SEMANTiCS 2017, SEMANTiCS 2018, SEMANTiCS 2019, SEMANTiCS 2020).
- ACM WebSci 2017 (poster track).
- The International KEYSTONE Conference 2015, 2017 (IKC2015, IKC 2017).
- Extended Semantic Web Conference 2015, 2016, 2019 (ESWC 2015, ESWC 2016, ESWC 2019, ESWC 2020, ESWC 2021).
- International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (KESW 2017, KESW 2016, KESW 2015).
- KOGPIT 2019 Workshop “Best Practices for (IoT) Knowledge Graphs”
- QALD Challenge 2017, Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-7), ESWC 2017
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), 2015
- Research Proposal Reviewing
- Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2019
- Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 2019
Awards
- Best demo award, 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009).
Acquired Project Funding
- WorldKG. World-Scale Completion of Geographic Knowledge (DFG, SPP-VGIscience, 2019-2020), PI.
- smashHit: Smart Dispatcher for Secure and Controlled Sharing of Distributed Personal and Industrial Data (EU H2020, 2020-2022), PI.
- d-E-mand: Vorhersage von Ladebedarf bei Elektromobilität als Business Enabler (BMWi, 01/2020-12/2022, pending), PI.
- CampaNeo, 07/2019-06/2022. Plattform für Echtzeit Fahrzeugdaten Kampagnen. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Germany, PI.
- Cleopatra, 01/019-12/2022. Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN). EU H2020. PI, Coordinator.
- Simple-ML, 08/2018-07/2021. “Big Data Machine Learning Workflows leicht gemacht”. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. PI, Coordinator.
- Data4UrbanMobility, 03/2017-04/2020. Data-Driven Mobility Services for the City of the Future. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. PI, Coordinator.
- QROWD, 2016–2019. Crowdsourcing Big Data. EU H2020. Proposal coordination.
- KEYSTONE COST Action, 2013-2017. Semantic Search in Structured Data. COST EU. 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.