Name:Oliver Karras

Bio:

I am a researcher, data scientist, and lecturer at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and [Leibniz Universität Hannover}(https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/). I hold a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree, as well as a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Leibniz Universität Hannover. 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 is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and find.software: Foundations for INterdisciplinary Discovery of (Research) Software. As part of this work, my research addresses the development of the Open Research Knowledge Graph for application in various diciplines such 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 scientific data, information, and knowledge for humans and machines.

I am a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), the Special Interest Group Requirements Engineering (GIFGRE) spokesperson, 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 assistant 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 65 national and international publications on diverse topics such as requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, social software engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, research knowledge graphs, neuro-symbolic AI, 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