Leadership, Boards, and Service

Scientific Leadership

• board member, United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UNGGIM) Private Sector Network
• co-chair, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics (ESI)
• member, Technical Interoperability of Data and Services, European Open Science Cloud
• member, Geodateninfrastruktur Deutschlang (GDI-DE)
• member, INSPIRE Arbeitskreis (Working Group), Germany

Past activities:

• member, advisory board, GDI-HB (state geo data infrastructure for Bremen)
• chair, Earth Observation Expert Group, Geoinformation Domain Germany, GAIA-X

Standardization Impact

Currently I am active in these standards bodies, as initiator and creator of currently 26 international standards:

• ISO:
  • initiator and co-editor, ISO IS 9075-15:2023 Multi-Dimensional Arrays (SQL/MDA) (Technical Report);
  • editor, ISO IS 19123-1 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions — Part 1: Fundamentals
  • editor, ISO IS 19123-2 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions — Part 2: Coverage implementation schema
  • editor, ISO IS 19123-3 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions — Part 1: Processing Fundamentals
• Open Geospatial Consortium:
  • editor, Abstract Topic 6 Part 1 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions — Part 1: Fundamentals
  • editor, Abstract Topic 6 Part 3 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions — Part 1: Fundamentals
  • editor, Coverage / datacube standards suite consisting of 20 data and service specifications
  • co-founder and co-chair, Big Data Domain Working Group (BigData.DWG)
  • chair, Coverages Standards Working Group (Coverages.SWG)
  • chair, Coverages Domain Working Group (Coverages.DWG)
  • co-founder, Temporal Domain Working Group (Temporal.DWG)
• INSPIRE: German delegate, WCS drafting team member
• DIN:
  • initiator and editor, DIN SPEC 18114:2019-04 Geoinformationen - Schema für Coverage und Funktionen - Grundlagen

Past activities:

• Research Data Alliance (RDA):
  • co-chair, Big Data Interest Group
  • co-chair, Geospatial Interest Group
  • chair, Array Database Assessment Working Group
  • member, RDA Europe Industry Advisory Board
• member, ERCIM Expert Group Big Data
• World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
  • member, Spatial Data on the Web Working Group
• member,Open Geospatial Consortium Architecture Board (OAB)
• council member, Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• member, OHBM (International Organization of Human Brain Mapping) Task Force on Neuroinformatics
• member, EC-US Steering Committee on Neuroinformatics

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:
  • Section Computer Science & Engineering of Electronics
  • Scientific Research and Essays
  • Sensors
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • International Journal On Advances in Software
  • Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)
  • IEEE Internet Computing

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

Memberships

• senior member, IEEE
• member, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS)
• member, EGU (European Geosciences Union) - member number 301747
• member, GI e.V. (German Informatics Society) - member number 12210
• Associated Member, FORWISS (as former assistant head of the Knowledge Bases research group)
• INI Graphics Alumnus