Short CV

Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3).

In 1998 he received the ÖGAI Award of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI), and the Cor-Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in 2002. He has published numerous papers in refereed journals and international conferences and served as PC member and reviewer for several major journals, conferences and workshops. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI). He serves on the board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and was a member of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries as well as the MUSCLE Network of Excellence on Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning.

His research interests cover the broad scope of digital libraries and information spaces, including specifically text and music information retrieval and organization, information visualization, as well as data analysis, neural computation and digital preservation.

Contact Info

Dr. Andreas Rauber
Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
Favoritenstr. 9-11/188
A - 1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 58801 18826
Fax: +43 1 58801 18899
e-mail: rauber@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Homepage: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~andi

Activities

  • iPRES2010: General Chair 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, September 19 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria
  • ECDL2010: Programme Co-Chair 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Sep 6-10 2010, Glasgow, UK.
  • WEMIS09: Co-Chair Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces, held in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), October 1-2 2009, Corfu, Greece.
  • IWAW2009: Co-Chair 9th International Web Archiving Workshop, held in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), October 1-2 2009, Corfu, Greece.
  • ISMIR 2007: General Chair 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, September 23-30 2007, Vienna, Austria.
  • ICADL 2006: Program Co-Chair of the Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006), November 27-30 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
  • ECDL 2006: Panel Chair European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 17-22 2006, Alicante, Spain.
  • Prix Ars Electronica 2006: Member of the International Advisory Committee, August 31 - September 9 2006, Linz, Austria.
  • ECDL 2005: Program Co-Chair European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 18-23 2005, Vienna, Austria.
  • Prix Ars Electronica 2005: Member of the International Advisory Committee, September 1-6 2005, Linz, Austria.
  • Digital Repositories: PC Co-Chair DELOS Workshop on Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services, May 11-13 2005, Heraklion, Greece
  • ECDL 2003: Tutorial Chair European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, August 17-22 2003, Trondheim, Norway
  • WebArchiving 2003: Program Chair of the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving, August 21 2003, Trondheim, Norway
  • DLib 2001: Program Chair International Workshop on Digital Libraries, DEXA, September 3-7 2001, Munich, Germany.