Chair, Head of Research Group

Office: 36/329
Email: stefan.dessloch (at) cs.rptu.de
Phone: +49-631-205-3275
Location: beaters.minds.turns
Office hours: On Appointment

Short Bio

Stefan Deßloch is a professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he is heading the research group Heterogeneous Information Systems. Until 2002, he was a database architect at the IBM Database Technology Institute in San Jose, California, where he conducted projects in the areas of information integration architecture and programming models, database & application server integration, and object-relational database extensions, whose outcome helped to shape database-related standards, directly contributed to IBM's product directions and implementations, and resulted in a number of patents. From 2001 to 2002, as a manager, he was responsible for IBM's database-related standardization efforts in the areas of SQL, XML, and Java.

Scientific Career

Research Interests

• information integration,
• (DB-) middleware technologies,
• databases and the web,
• XML and databases,
• database and application server integration,
• extensible and object-relational DBMS.

Activities, Responsibilities, and Memberships

• Editorial board member of the "Int. Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)", Idea Group Publishing/Information Science Publishing.
• Electronic proceedings chair and co-editor of the ACM SIGMOD 2004 conference.
• Held tutorials on database standards at BTW Datenbank Tutorientage in 2005, 2001, 1999.
• Program committee and organisation committee member of numerous national and international conferences.
• Head of the PhD Study Program, Dept. of Computer Science.
• Member of ACM SIGMOD and the German Informatics Society (GI).

Publications

• A full list of publications of our research group can be found in our publications page.
• A list of publications is also available at the DBLP Bibliography Server.

Patents

A list of issued patents and published patent applications can be found at the US Patent and Trademark Office web site.

Technical Support

Office: 36/325
Email: steffen.reithermann (at) cs.rptu.de
Phone: +49-631-205-3296
Office hours: On Appointment

Secretary

Office: 36/325
Email: heike.neu (at) cs.rptu.de
Phone: +49-631-205-2635
Fax: +49 631 205 3286
Office hours: On Appointment

Doctoral Research Assistant

Office: 36/332
Email: gajendra.doniparthi (at) cs.rptu.de
Location: qualified.reform.chairs
Office hours: On Appointment

Short Bio

Gajendra Doniparthi is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is part of the DataPLANT project, funded by NFDI. His research is on large-scale plant science data modeling, data integration, and solutions for indexing, search, and findability for interdisciplinary bio-science data analysis. He collaborates with the Computational Systems Biology group from RPTU and works on FAIR-RDM ideas, supporting tools, and solutions. Previously, he worked as a B2B Integration Specialist in the retail and manufacturing industries.

Career

Research Interests

• research data management
• application and data integration
• polystores
• electronic data interchange 

Publications

• A full list of publications of our research group can be found in our publications page.

Doctoral Research Assistant

Office: 36/340
Email: hohenstein (at) cs.uni-kl.de
Phone: +49-631-205-3281
Location: beaters.minds.turns

Doctoral Research Assistant

Office: 36/338
Email: tim.otto (at) cs.rptu.de
Phone: +49-631-205-2891
Location: private.puppets.left
Office hours: On Appointment

Short Bio

Tim Otto is currently pursuing his PhD in computer science. In addition to his own scientific work, he supervises the exercise for the lecture "Middleware for Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Systems" and the project "DB Schema Design and Programming". 

Career

Research Interests

• tbd

Publications

• A full list of publications of our research group can be found in our publications page.