:-) Ulrich Thiel

FhG-IPSI

Dolivostr. 15
D-64293 Darmstadt
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)6151 869-855
Fax: +49 (0)6151 869-6968
E-mail: thiel@ipsi.fraunhofer.de

Homepage: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~thiel
 

  • Dr. Ulrich Thiel is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer  Integrated Publication and information Systems Institute (IPSI) in Darmstadt. Within FhG IPSI (formerly GMD IPSI) he is in the ORION division, which is concerned with metadata applications in publishing processes (eg content syndication, single source publishing), intelligent information retrieval, pro-active agent-based user interfaces, and collaboration systems.
  • He received his diploma in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund, and his Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Konstanz. Until 1988 he was a researcher and lecturer at the Information Science department at the University of Konstanz. Since 1990 he has been a researcher and manager of several projects and research groups within Fraunhofer IPSI. His primary research interests are in intelligent multimedia information retrieval, logic-based retrieval mechanisms, intelligent user interfaces, and dialogue and user modelling. He has been coordinator of several European R&D projects (e.g., COGITO) and program committee member of several national and international conferences and workshops (eg. ACMSIGIR, ECIR, CIKM, ADL, ECDL).
  • His current research activities are in the areas of information retrieval (multimedia retrieval, logic-based retrieval models, context-based retrieval), digital libraries, conversational interfaces for information retrieval and e-commerce, and dialogue and user modeling.
  • Currently, he is in charge of the division's competence group "Search and  Retrieval Technologies"
  • In addition, he is technical co-coordinator of the COLLATE Project since September 2000, and
  • project manager of the VIPAdvisor Project since January 2002.
  • Before, he was Head Coordinator  of the COGITO Project ( 2000 - 2002).
  • Among the former EU projects he headed are HERMES , ProCORDIS , TREVI , and AUTOSOFT
  • and IPSI research projects MIRACLE and MERIT .

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    Last modified on Oct 10, 2003, thiel@ipsi.fraunhofer.de