Name:Oliver Karras

Bio:

I am the Head of Curation & Community Building for Program Area D - Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. In this role, I work as a researcher and data scientist at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, as well as a lecturer at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Leibniz Universität Hannover. Furthermore, I am involved in the research projects Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences (NFDI4ING) consortium, National Research Data Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research (NFDI4Energy) consortium, both of which are part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), find.software: Foundations for INterdisciplinary Discovery of (Research) Software, CRC/TRR 298 SIIRI – Safety-Integrated and Infection-Reactive Implants, and SciD-QuESt - From Scientific Documents to Knowledge – Questionnaire-Based Extraction and Structuring.

As part of this work, my research focuses on the development of the ORKG and its application in diverse disciplines, such as computer science, engineering sciences, energy system research, and medicine. I focus on the human-centered, neuro-symbolic knowledge organization to improve the availability, discoverability, and accessibility of FAIR scientific data, information, and knowledge for humans and machines.

I am a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), and a regular reviewer and member of various program committees and organizing committees of workshops, conferences, and journals.

Before joining TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, I was a research associate and Ph.D. student at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I worked as project leader of the DFG research project ViViReq and researched the integration of videos as a complementary communication medium in requirements engineering. My research focused on supporting requirements communication between stakeholders and the development team to foster the development of a shared understanding of the project vision of the system under development among all project partners involved.

I have published my research in over 85 national and international publications on diverse topics, including requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, social software engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, research knowledge graphs, neuro-symbolic AI, and FAIR scientific data, information, and knowledge.

Country:Germany

Affiliation:TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

Research interests:Empirical Software Engineering, Neurosymbolic AI, Knowledge Graphs, Requirements Engineering