Committee

The SEMANTiCS conference series is a joint effort of the European Semantic Web and Linked Data community, including people and organisations from industry, research, NGO and governmental sector.

Conference Chairs 2016

  • Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University) Conference Chair
  • Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St. Pölten) Conference Co-Chair
  • Anna Fensel (University of Innsbruck) Research & Innovation Chair
  • Amrapali Zaveri (Stanford University) Research & Innovation Chair
  • Bernhard Haslhofer (Austrian Institute of Technology) Research & Innovation Co-Chair
  • Artem Revenko (Semantic Web Company) Research & Innovation Co-Chair
  • Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer) Industry & Use Case Chair
  • Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) Industry & Use Case Co-Chair
  • Michael Martin (AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University) Poster & Demo Chair
  • Erwin Folmer (Kadaster, University of Twente) Co-Chair
  • Martí Cuquet (Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck) Poster & Demo Co-Chair
  • Thomas Moser (FH St. Pölten) Workshop & Satellite Chair
  • Kay Müller (AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University) Workshop & Satellite Co-Chair
  • Annette Weilandt (Eccence/Brox) Sponsoring Chair
  • Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University) Sponsoring Co-Chair
  • Sandra Bartsch (AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University) Promotion Chair and Proceedings Chair
  • Thomas Thurner (Semantic Web Company) Promotion Co-Chair and European Linked Data Contest
  • Julia Holze (AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University) Local Chair and Promotion Co-Chair
  • ​Christiane Wolf (FU-Confirm) Local Co-Chair

Programme Committee - Industry & Use Case

  • Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer, Chair
  • Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company, Co-Chair
  • Agis Papantoniou, Cognizone
  • Aleksandar Kapisoda, Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Ben Gardner, Linklaters
  • Bert van Nuffelen, Tenforce
  • Cathy Dolbear, Oxford University Press
  • Christian Opitz, Netresearch
  • Christoph Goller, IntraFind AG
  • Erwin Folmer, TNO Information and Communication Technology
  • Fabian Heinemann, Roche Diagnostics
  • Florian Bauer, REEEP
  • Fredric Landqvist, Findwise
  • Hans van Bruggen, Qdossier
  • Heimo Hänninen, Sparta Consulting
  • Holger Wollschläger, Lecos
  • Ian Piper, Tellura/Pearson
  • Ilian Uzuonov, Ontotext
  • Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company
  • Martin Voigt, Ontos
  • Mike Doane, Term Management
  • Mike Heininger, bee network & GfWM Austria
  • Phil Archer, W3C
  • Sebastian Tramp, Eccenca
  • Stephen Buxton, Marklogic
  • Thomas Kelly, Cognizant

Programme Committee - Posters and Demos

  • Michael Martin, AKSW, InfAI, Leipzig University, Chair
  • Erwin Folmer, Kadaster / University of Twente, Co-Chair
  • Martí Cuquet, Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck, Co-Chair
  • TBC

 

Permanent Advisory Board

Senior Programme Committee - Research & Innovation

  • Paul Buitelaar, Insight - National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Claudia D'Amato, University of Bari
  • Brian Davis, DERI NUIG
  • Victor de Boer, VU Amsterdam
  • Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Germany
  • Michel Dumontier, Stanford University
  • Agata Filipowska, Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics
  • Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology
  • Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, InfAI, Leipzig University
  • Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg
  • Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Universidad de Oviedo
  • Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research
  • Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig
  • Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich
  • Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
  • Tassilo Pellegrini, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
  • Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Technology
  • Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam
  • Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University - iMinds
  • Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science

Programme Committee - Research & Innovation

  • Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
  • Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute
  • Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp
  • Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid
  • Stefan Bischof, Siemens AG Österreich
  • Volha Bryl, Springer Nature
  • Irene Celino, CEFRIEL
  • Pierre-Antoine, Champin LIRIS
  • Roland Cornelissen, Metamatter
  • Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton
  • Roberta Cuel, University of Trento
  • Aba-Sah Dadzie, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
  • Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center
  • Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
  • Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
  • Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST
  • Samhaa El-Beltagy, Cairo University
  • Ingo Feinerer, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
  • Javier D. Fernández, Computer Science Department. University of Valladolid
  • Fabien Gandon, Inria
  • Jorge Garcia, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida
  • José María García, University of Seville
  • Alain Giboin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
  • Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Expert System
  • Michael Granitzer, University of Passau
  • Benjamin Heitmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center
  • Laura Hollink, CWI
  • Katja Hose, Aalborg University
  • Valentina Janev, Mihailo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade
  • Anja Jentzsch, Hasso Plattner Institut
  • Ali Khalili, VU University Amsterdam
  • Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien
  • Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig
  • Christoph Lange, University of Bonn
  • Nelia Lasierra Beamonte, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
  • Isaac Lera, University of the Balearic Islands
  • Steffen Lohmann, Fraunhofer IAIS
  • Vanessa Lopez, IBM Research
  • Sandra Lovrenčić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin
  • Markus Luczak-Roesch, University of Southampton
  • Elisa Marengo, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • John P. Mccrae, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Andras Micsik, SZTAKI
  • Andrea Moro Sapienza, Università di Roma
  • Dmitry Mouromtsev, NRU ITMO, Russia
  • Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Lyndon Nixon, MODUL University
  • Inna Novalija, Jozef Stefan Institute
  • Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab, ISTC-CNR
  • Leo Obrst, MITRE
  • Maryam Panahiazar, Stanford University
  • Alexander Panchenko, Université catholique de Louvain
  • Viviana Patti, University of Turin
  • Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna
  • Xiuquan Qiao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Achim Rettinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Giuseppe Rizzo, ISMB
  • Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University
  • Anisa Rula, University of Milano-Bicocca
  • Felix Sasaki, W3C
  • Vadim Savenkov, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
  • Francois Scharffe, 3Top
  • Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina
  • Nadine Steinmetz, TU Ilmenau
  • Holger Stenzhorn, Saarland University Hospital
  • Simon Steyskal, Siemens AG Austria
  • Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague
  • Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM
  • Ioan Toma, STI Innsbruck
  • Jürgen Umbrich, Vienna University of Economy and Business (WU)
  • Joerg Waitelonis, Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam
  • Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics
  • Eva Zangerle, Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck