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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber

Chair of Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics

Call for Postdoc Position

You will be working on LLMs, KGs, etc.

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Photo. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber
E-Mail: michael.faerber@tu-dresden.de
Office: Strehlener Str. 12-14, Room 733, 01069 Dresden (Google Maps)
Secretary: Thomas Bruderrek, Jin Zhang
Phone: +49 (0)351 463 40900 (Secretary)

Research Spotlight

Professional Profile

  • Since April 2024, W3 Full Professor and head of the research group “Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics” at the AI Center ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig at TUD Dresden University of Technology (appointed at age 36).
  • From 2020 to 2024, Deputy Full Professor (“W3-Vertretungsprofessor”) for Web Science at the Institute AIFB of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany), leading a team of 7 PhD students, 1 KIT junior research group leader, and 1 postdoc.
  • Research in AI, particularly at the intersection of natural language processing (LLMs!), machine learning (GNNs!), and knowledge representation (KGs!), including explainable AI and machine learning on graph data.
  • 100+ publications at highly-ranked conferences (e.g., ACL, CIKM, ISWC, ECIR, ECML, NAACL) and in journals (e.g., SWJ, IJDL, Scientometrics) with international researchers as co-authors.
  • Princial Investigator (PI) in several projects (e.g., ChemKB, IIDI, KIGLIS, KIWI, TruthfulLM) and multi-million third-party funding.
  • Many years of teaching experience: Lectures with up to 600 students, receiving Faculty award.
  • Understanding of interdisciplinary research topics based on parallel studies in philosophy (B.A.).

News and Achievements

  • 06/2024: 2 Papers (AutoRDF2GML + KGPrompt) accepted at ISWC’24. See you in Baltimore!
  • 05/2024: Paper GNNavi accepted at Findings of ACL’24. See you in Bangkok!
  • 04/2024: Starting as full professor (W3) at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig / TU Dresden.
  • 11/2023: Best Paper Award (1000 USD) for SemOpenAlex at ISWC’23.

Online Presence

Online Demo Systems

  • RefBee: Tracks publications across bibliographic databases.
  • C-Rex: Recommends citations for texts.
  • PaperHunter: Searches citation contexts in papers.
  • ScholarSight: Explores scientific concept trends.
  • Linked Crunchbase: Queries startup and innovation data in RDF format.

Data Sets

Projects

Open Student Positions and Theses

… please ask. See also here for some first topics.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber has supervised over 50 Bachelor and Master theses and encourages both English and German-speaking students to apply. Many thesis topics are available for study abroad through partner institutions and DAAD funding.

funded by:
Gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
Gefördert vom Freistaat Sachsen.