Institute of Computer Science — Knowledge-Based Systems Research Group
	Professional CV of Joachim Hertzberg

Academic record

• Diploma in Computer Science, University of Bonn, 1982.
• Doctorate (Dr.rer.nat) in Computer Science, University of Bonn, 1986.
• Habilitation in Computer Science, Hamburg University, 1995.

Professional career

• 1982-1986: Scientific Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Bonn
• 1986-2001: Research Scientist at GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology) (GMD in Wikipedia)
• 1993: Guest Researcher, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, CA
• 1993-1994: Substitute Professor (C4-Lehrstuhlvertreter), Computer Science Faculty, Dortmund University
• 1996: Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 1998-2004: External lecturer (Privatdozent), University of Bonn, Computer Science Department
• 1999-2004: Head of Department Robot Control Architectures (ARC), AIS
• 2001-2004 (merger between GMD and Fraunhofer Society): Research Scientist at Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS, now IAIS)
• Since 09/2004: Professor for Computer Science (Knowledge-Based Systems) at the University of Osnabrück

Areas of scientific interest

Artificial Intelligence, knowledge-based systems, action planning (check out PLANET's planning repository and research database!), plan-based robot control, robot navigation and localization, semantic mapping, symbol grounding.

Applications of these. A focus in the past (AIS) was sewer robotics, but I haven't imported that to Osnabrück.

Publications

I have written or edited 9 books and published over 100 refereed or invited papers in books, journals or major conferences. A selection (complete starting Fall 2004) can be found at this link.

Awards etc.

• 2nd place (team member), SICK AG Robot Day, indoor competition (2007)
• Nomination for Hans-Mühlenhoff-Preis for outstanding teaching, Univ. Osnabück (2007)
• Best Mobility Award, Best Autonomy Award (team member), Robocup German Open (2005)
• Best Paper Award (co-author), SSRR'05, Kobe, Japan (2005)
• Vice World Champion (team member), RoboCup Rescue, Lisbon (2004)
• ICSI Award of GMD for outstanding scientific research (1992)
• PhD grant by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1983/84)

Research projects

Research community services

Current

• Co-editor, Special Issue Semantic Knowledge in Robotics of the J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Issue in print)
• PC member, KI-2008, Sep 23-26, 2008, Kaiserslautern (Germany).
• Dean of the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Universität Osnabrück (2007-2009)
• Co-editor of the book series DISKI – Dissertationen aus der Künstlichen Intelligenz of AKA-Verlag

Past (Some)

• Conference Co-Chair and local organization, KI-2007, September 10-13, 2007, Osnabrück.
• Co-Organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar No. 06231 Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control, Schloss Dagstuhl, June 5-9, 2006
• Member of the Comité de Pilotage (Steering Committee) of the Interdisciplinary National French Program in Robotics Robotique et Entités Artificielles (Robea).
• Co-organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents, June 22-27, 2003, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (See Proceedings of the previous seminar in 2001.)
• Member of the Executive Council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) (2002-2008).
• Co-chair 6th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems (AIPS2002), April 25-27, 2002, Toulouse (France)
• Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), member of the editorial committee for the area Planning and Scheduling.
• Member of the problem jury for the German National Contest in Informatics (Bundeswettbewerb Informatik).
• speaker of the SIG Planen und Konfigurieren of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik, 1989-1993
• Past involvements in conference organization are at this link.

Last changed: Sep 15, 2008