Harald Sack is Professor of Information Service Engineering at FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). After graduating in computer science at the University of the Federal Forces Munich, he worked as network engineer and project manager in the signal intelligence corps of the German Air Force. In 1997 he became an associated member of the graduate program ‘mathematical optimization’ at the University of Trier and obtained a PhD in computer science in 2002. From 2002–2008 he worked as postdoc at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. From 2009 to 2016 he was working as head of the research group Semantic Technologies and Multimedia Retrieval at Hasso Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam. His current areas of research include semantic technologies, knowledge discovery as well as multimedia analysis & retrieval. He has served as General Chair, PC Chair, Senior PC member or PC member of numerous international conferences and workshops. Harald Sack has published more than 140 scientific papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences including several standard textbooks.
He is founding member of the German IPv6 council and serves as its general secretary since 2009. He has initiated the academic video search engine yovisto.com and is CEO at yovisto. Since 2014 he complements his university teaching with MOOCs on Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs at OpenHPI.
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