Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth
About
Manfred Hauswirth is the managing director (CEO) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) and a full professor for “Open Distributed Systems” at the Technical University Berlin. Before he had been deputy director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI, now DSI) and a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
His research is on distributed information systems, Internet of Things, data stream processing and Linked Data, semantics and AI. He has won several international awards for his work in these areas and is active in many scientific and political committees around digitization.
He is a director and principal investigator in the Weizenbaum Institute, the German Internet Institute, and a principal investigator in the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), in the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC), in the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) and in the Helmholtz-Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS). Manfred Hauswirth is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, a member of the IEEE Computer Society Conference Advisory Committee, partner in the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet), co-speaker of the area quantum computing in Fraunhofer, speaker of the competency network quantum computing of Fraunhofer, co-speaker of the Fraunhofer strategic research field quantum computing, speaker of the Fraunhofer Center for the Security of Socio-Technical Systems (Fraunhofer SIRIOS), speaker of Fraunhofer’s Berlin Center for Digital Transformation (2016-2018), a director of the Fraunhofer Academy, as well as a member in numerous boards, committees and expert networks around digitization.
Manfred Hauswirth is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the German Informatics Society (GI).
Born 1966 in St. Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, studied computer science the Technical University Vienna (Dipl.-Ing., 1993, Dr. techn., 1999), 2002-2006 senior researcher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2006-2014 professor National University of Ireland, Galway and deputy director Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI, now DSI). Since 2014 managing director (CEO) Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) and full professor for “Open Distributed Systems” at Technical University Berlin.
Positions
Manfred Hauswirth holds the following positions at the Weizenbaum Institute:
- Director
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Principal Investigator (PI), Research Group: Digitalization and Opening Up Science
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Fields of Research
Manfred Hauswirth conducts research on:
- Linked Data streams
- Big Data and analytics
- Semantic sensor networks
- Sensor networks middleware
- Cyber-physical systems
- Large-scale semantics-enabled distributed information systems and applications, Peer-to-peer systems
- Internet of Things
- Self-organization and self-management
- Service-oriented architectures
- Distributed systems security
More Projects
Selection
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2014-2017 FIESTA – Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/cloud Testbeds and Applications (principal investigator)
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2013-2019 INSIGHT – Ireland’s Big Data and Analytics Research Centre (Science Foundation Ireland)
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2013-2016 VITAL – Virtualized programmable InTerfAces for innovative cost
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effective IoT depLoyments in smart cities (STREP, FP 7)
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2013-2016 CityPulse – Real-Time IoT Stream Processing and Large-scale Data Analytics for Smart City Applications (STREP, FP 7)
Committees and functions
- Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
- Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Open Distributed Systems
- Principal Investigator at the Berlin Big Data Center
- Principal Investigator at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
- Principal Investigator at the Einstein Center Digital Future
- Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Daimler Center for Automotive Information Technology Innovations
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CONNECT, Ireland's National Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications
- Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Member of the German Informatics Society
- Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member of the IEEE Computer Society Conference Advisory Committee
- Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science
- Member of the Digital Economy Industry Committee of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- Advisory Board Salzburg Research
- Executive Committee of the Institute for Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen
- Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Internet Studies
Publications
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