Guest researcher
This page lists all visiting scientists involved in the key profile area "Intelligent Methods for Earth System Sciences". The KPA supports research stays of visiting scientists in Cologne - also through the Global Faculty Program of the University of Cologne.
Name | Institute | Faculty | Homepage | Over a period of |
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Artur Czumaj | University of Warwick, UK | Algorithmic Data Analysis | https://portal.uni-koeln.de/tr/international/uoc-global/gf/global-faculty/prof-dr-artur-czumaj | 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 |
Rita Borgo | King's College London, UK | Data Visualisation, Visual Analytics,... | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rita-borgo | 20.08.2023 - 20.09.2023 |
Artur Czumaj is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Director of Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) - University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
- PhD (1995), Habilitation (1999) from the University of Paderborn
- President of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
- past Chair of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Computer Science Committee
- Research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Royal Society, European Union, the Simons Foundation, and IBM
His research interest is fundamental computer science:
- design of randomized algorithms and
- analysis of large data
with the settings:
- parallel and distributed computing
- streaming and sublinear algorithms
- game theory/economic
Dr Rita Borgo is Head of Human Centred Computing Group (HCC), Informatics Department, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science. Thesis title “Dealing with Massive Volumetric Visualization: Progressive Algorithms and Data Structures”. Università di Pisa, Pisa,IT
- HEA Fellowship, awarded on May 9, 2019
- Champion of Urban Living Hub. Informatics Department, King’s College London, London , UK.
- Deputy Director Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) - London. King’s College London, London , UK.
- Reader in Data Visualization. Informatics Department, King’s College London, London , UK.
Research Interests:
- Data analytics with emphasis on mining and visualisation of large multidimensional/multivariate time series
- Visualization for explainable AI
- Urban informatics,visualization design promoting human-data interaction with focus on perception, cognition and usability
- High Performance Computing applied to Big Data analytics
- Augmented Reality and multimedia visualisation
- Applications in theoretical physics, environmental sciences and climatology, digital humanities and healthcare