Leadership, Boards, and Service
[ leadership
| standardization impact
| conference organization
| program committees
| journals
| engagement
| project evaluator
| service
| memberships
]
Leadership
Past activities:
Standardization Impact
Currently I am active in these standards bodies, as initiator and creator of a series of international standards:
Past activities:
Conference Organization
- International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM 2022), Barcelona, Spain, 2022
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIs (SpatialAPI 2019), Chicago, USA -- Advisory Board member
- Fachsitzung "Big Earth Data – neue Herausforderungen durch große Fernerkundungsdatenmengen" at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Tübingen, Germany, 2017
- SSTDM 2016, Barcelona, Spain -- Program Co-Chair
- SSDBM 2016, Budapest -- General Chair
- Big Data from Space conference 2016 by ESA (European Space Agency) -- member, Organising Committee and Program Committee
- FOSS4G-Europe 2015 -- Academic Track chair
- Big Data From Space conference by ESA (European Space Agency) -- member, organizing committee
- FOSS4G-Europe 2014 -- General Conference Chair
- XLDB-Europe 2013 -- member, organizing committee
- Workshop on Array Databases (co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2011) -- workshop originator; chair, together with Bill Howe [proceedings]
- Seminario de Tecnologia de la Informacion en Geociencias (CGI-IUGS 2009), June 30 - July 01, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina -- organizing committee co-chair
Program Committees
- IEEE BigData, Macao, China, December 2025
- IEEE BigData, Washington DC, USA, December 2024
- LOD 10th Intl. Conf. on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, September 2024
- GEOProcessing 16th Intl. Conf. on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing), Barcelona, Spain, 2024
- SPACOMM 16th Intl. Conf. on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM), Barcelona, Spain, 2024
- SSDBM Research and Demo Program Committee, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
- International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Honolulu, USA, 2023
- Big Data 2023, Sorrento, Italy
- SSDBM 2023, Los Angeles, USA
- Machine Learning, Optimization & Data science (LOD), Lake District, UK, September 2023
- Big Data from Space (BiDS), Vienna, Austria, November 2023
- Big Data, 2022, Hawaii, USA
- IEEE Big Data, Kyoto, Japan
- IGARSS 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- SSDBM 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, Bonn, Germany
- ACM SpatialAPI Workshop 2021, Beijing, China
- SSDBM 2021, Tampa, Florida
- ESA Big Data from Space Conference (BiDS), 2021
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on APIs and Libraries for Geospatial Data Science (SpatialAPI 2021), Beijing / virtual, 2021-11-02
- 2020 International Conference on Big Data, virtual, 2020
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIs (SpatialAPI 2020), 2020, Seattle, USA
- IEEE Big Data, 2020, Atlanta, USA
- International conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE), 2020, Gran Canaria, Spain
- eScience 2020, 2020, Osaka, Japan
- Maritime Big Data Workshop (MBDW), 2020, Versailles, France
- SSDBM 2020, Vienna, Austria
- 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science (LOD), 2020, Certosa di Pontignano, Italy
- 6th Interdisciplinary International Conference on RISK Information Management, Risk Models and Applications (RIMMA), 2020, Berlin, Germany
- International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing), 2020, Barcelona, Spain
- International Conference on Big Data Management (ICBDM), 2020, Shenzen, China
- International Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD), 2019, Paris, France
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2019, Los Angeles, USA
- EARSeL Symposium 2019, Salzburg, Austria
- IGARSS 2019, Yokohama, Japan
- BigData Congress 2019, San Diego, USA
- 31st International Conference on Scientific & Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2019, Santa Cruz, USA
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018, Boston, USA, senior program committee member
- 12th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2018) & Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD@ECSA2018), 2018, Madrid, Spain
- 1st International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC), 2018, Seattle, USA
- 7th Intl. Congress on Big Data 2018, Seattle, USA
- SSDBM 2018
- Intl. Conf. on Big Data and Education (ICBDE), 2018, Chicago, USA
- IEEE 13th International Conference on eScience, 2017, Auckland, New Zealand
- ESA EO Open Science Conference, 2017, ESRIN, Italy
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2017, Boston, USA, senior program committee member
- XLDB 2017
- SSDBM 2017
- ANT-2017, Madeira, Portugal
- 12th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2016, Baltimore, USA
- IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2016), San Francisco, USA
- International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics (ITBAM 2016), Porto, Portugal
- ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016, Prague, Czechia
- EO Science 2.0 2015, ESRIN / Frascati, Italy
- 11th IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2015, Munich, Germany
- International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2015), Taormina, Italy
- Workshop "Big Data in Science" at BTW (German Annual Database Conference) 2015, Germany
- SciDataCon 2014, November 2 - 5, 2014, New Delhi, India
- IEEE BigData 2014, October 27 - 30, 2014, Washington, USA
- OGC Academic Summit 2014, Calgary, Canada
- European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Session ESSI2.6: Implications of Big Data to Earth Science Data Analysis (session co-convener)
- 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 20th - 24th October 2014, Brazil
- IEEE International Congress on Big Data, June 27 - July 2 2014, Anchorage, Alaska, US
- SSDBM 2014
- 10th IEEE International Conference on eScience (IEEE eScience 2014), Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 20th-24th, 2014
- NASA Worldwind Challenge Europe 2014
- ESSI2.6 Implications of Big Data to Earth Science Data Analysis, co-convener
- Intl. Workshop on Big Web Data (BigWebData2013), Oct 13th, 2013, Nanjing, China
- IEEE Conf. on Big Data and Distributed Systems (BDDS), December 3 - 5, 2013, Sydney, Australia
- IEEE 2013 Conference on BigData, October 6-9, 2013, Silicon Valley, US
- Big Data From Space 2013, European Space Agency, Frascati, Rome
- ADMS 2013 (Third International Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures), in conjunction with VLDB 2013
- Geoinformatik 2013, Heidelberg, DE
- BDMA 2013 First International DASFAA Workshop on Big Data Management and Analytics
CEGeoIC 2013 (Environmental Information and Communication - Achieving Sustainability Goals through Knowledge Sharing), Bogota, Colombia, 2013
- SSTDM (International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining), co-located with ICDM 2012
- CODATA 2012 (23rd CODATA International Conference)
- ACM BIGSPATIAL, Redondo Beach, 2012
- SSTDM, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
- Geoinformatik, Münster, Germany, 2012
- Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing, AGILE workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2011
- Geometric Objects in Databases and Information Systems (GeoDBIS) 2011
- Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing
- XLDB 2011, Edinburgh, 2011
- ITBAM 2011 (Intl Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics)
- SSTDM 2010 (Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
- ITBAM 2010 (Intl Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics)
- AST 2010 (Intl Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
- SSTDM 2009 (ICDM Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
- ICKM 2009 (Intl Conference on Knowledge Management)
- DEXA 2009 (Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
- DTA 2009 (Intl Conference on Database Theory and Application)
- DB 2009 (Intl Conference on Advances in Databases); Conference Advisory Chair and reviewer
- SSTDM 2008 (ICDM Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
- DTA 2008 (Intl Conference on Database Theory and Application)
- Workshop on Mining Multidimensional Data
- BIRD 2008 (Intl Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development)
- DEXA 2008 (Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
- dg.o 2008 (Intl Digital Government Research Conference)
- ICDE 2008 (Intl Conf on Data Engineering)
- DEXA 2007 (Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
- LCL Berlin, 2007
Journals
- Guest editor:
- Ryong Lee, Peter Baumann, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Xing Xie, Praveen Rao, Yukiko Kawai (guest eds): Multidimensional Geosocial Media Analytics
- P. Yue, R. Ramachandran, P. Baumann (eds.): Special issue on Intelligent GIServices Earth Science Informatics Journal, Springer
- Editorial Board:
Engagement
- Constructor University Vertrauensdozent der Gesellschaft für Informatik
- invited expert, Big.dota, an international virtual workshop organized by students for students, 2017-02-13
- talk and discussion about societal implications of Big Data, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regensburg, 2016-06-28
- talk and discussion about societal implications of Big Data, SPD Munich, 2016-11-11
- school class invitation to campus, talk and discussion about Big Data in Science, 2016-02-17
- "Big Earth Data" - a 1h TV documentary initiated and scientifically directed by me, broadcast 4x in German and 2x in French TV, available on youtube in several languages (including English)
- NASA World Wind Europe Challenge, Scientific Committee member
Project Evaluator
- EU H2020 EINFRA
- EU FP7 ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
- DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation)
University Service
- hiring committee, professorship for Data Science, Jacobs University, 2017
- hiring committee, professorship for Geoinformatics and Geomathematics, Technical University Freiberg, 2016
- principal architect of Data Engineering MSc program, Jacobs University, 2014-2016
- Co-founder and Vice Speaker, Executive Board, Jacobs Center for Advanced Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011-2015
- hiring committee, professorship for Computer Science, Jacobs University, 2008
- hiring committee, professorship for Computational Science / Computer Science, Jacobs University, 2006
- speaker, IT Committee, Jacobs University, 2004-2010
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