Professor Andreas Dengel is Managing Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern where he holds the chair “Knowledge-Based Systems”. Since 2009 he also holds a Honorary Professorship (Kyakuin) at the Dept. of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering of the Osaka Prefecture University. From 1980 to 1986 Andreas studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. He subsequently worked at the Siemens research lab in Munich and at the University of Stuttgart where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1989. In 1991 he worked as a guest researcher at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto.

Andreas is a member of the IT-Summit Working Group on “service and consumer-oriented information technology” consulting the German government on questions of future IT strategies. 2008 he co-founded the Institute on Document Analysis and Knowledge Science (IDAKS) at the Osaka Prefecture University in Japan. Andreas is an advisory board member of the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the NEC Computers and Communication Innovation Research Labs (CCIL), and the Int’l Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).

Andreas is and was program/technical chair of international conferences, such as ICPR, ICDAR, DAS, ICFHR, KES, KI, and KM. He is a editorial board member of international journals, like IJDAR and Future Internet. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies, In 2005 he received a “Pioneer Spirit Award” for one of his start-up concepts. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals and has written or edited 8 books and is author of more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He supervised more than 120 PhD and master theses.

In 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and has been honored for his work several times. Most prominent prizes are the ICDAR “Young Investigator Award”, the Nakano Award, the Technical Communication Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation, the Multi-Media Award as well as a Document Analysis Systems Achievement Award he received at Princeton University. His main scientific emphasis is in the areas of Knowledge Management, Semantic Technologies, Information Retrieval, and Document Understanding.