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Curriculum Vitae Name: Allan George Hanbury Born: 5 March 1974 in George, South Africa Citizenship: Irish / South African dual citizenship E-mail: [email protected] www: http://allan.hanbury.eu LinkedIn: http://at.linkedin.com/pub/allan-hanbury/6/3a2/948 Twitter: https://twitter.com/allanhanbury Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7149-5843/ Allan Hanbury is Professor for Data Intelligence and head of the E-Commerce Research Unit in the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria. He is also faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. He was scientific coordinator of the EU-funded Khresmoi Project on medical and health information search and analysis, and is co-founder of contextflow, the spin- off company commercialising the radiology image search technology developed in the Khresmoi project. He is coordinator of DoSSIER, a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, educating 15 doctoral students on domain-specific systems for information extraction and retrieval. He also coordinated the EU-funded VISCERAL project on evaluation of algorithms on big data, and the EU-funded KConnect project on technology for analysing medical text. He is author or co-author of over 160 publications in refereed journals and refereed international conferences. He contributes to research and innovation strategy development in Austria and Europe, and regularly gives talks on topics related to his research. He was born in George, South Africa in 1974. He was awarded the B.Sc. degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics in 1994, the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physics in 1995, and the M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1999, all from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 2002 from the Mines ParisTech, France, and the Habilitation in Practical Informatics from the TU Wien, Austria, in 2008. Education: 2008 TU Wien, Austria: Habilitation in practical informatics 1998–2002 MINES ParisTech, France: Doctorate in applied mathematics (with honours – très honorable avec les félicitations du jury) Thesis title: Morphologie Mathématique sur le Cercle Unité : avec applications aux teintes et aux textures orientées (Mathematical Morphology on the Unit Circle: with applications to hues and to directional textures), Advisor: Prof. Jean Serra 1996–1998 University of Cape Town, South Africa: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in physics Thesis title: Generalised Fourier Analysis of Human Chromosome Images, Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Gerald Robertson 1995 University of Cape Town, South Africa: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in physics 1992–1994 University of Cape Town, South Africa: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in physics and applied mathematics 1979–1991 Primary and High School in South Africa Professional Career: Since 3.2020 Head of the E-Commerce Research Unit in the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria Since 12.2017 Faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria Since 11.2017 Professor of Data Intelligence at the TU Wien, Austria (professor endowed by Deutsche Telekom) 10.2016–10.2017 Leader of the Data Science Research Studio at the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Since 7.2016 Co-founder at contextflow GmbH, a spin-off of the Khresmoi EU project and incubee at the TU Wien i²ncubator 10.2014–9.2016 Consultant on Data Science for the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH 5.2011–10.2017 Senior Researcher in the Information and Software Engineering Group, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, TU Wien, Austria 5.2009–4.2011 Senior Scientific Officer at the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Vienna Since 11.2008 Privatdozent at the TU Wien 11.2008–4.2009 Senior Scientist & Consultant at CogVis GmbH, Vienna (a spin-off company of the TU Wien) 1.2009–4.2009 Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Sensory Information Systems Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 10.2002–10.2008 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computer-Aided Automation, TU Wien, Austria 5. 2002–9. 2002 Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the TU Wien, Austria 4. 2002 Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Centre for Mathematical Morphology, MINES ParisTech, France 1994–1998 Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Physics, University of Cape Town Job Responsibilities: Research; teaching; research team leadership; participation in various university committees; research project management; research project acquisition; research strategy development; innovation management; reviewing for journals, conferences and funding agencies; and staff development. Further Courses: 28.10–29.10.2020 Conflicts in daily leadership – handling conflicts successfully with a solution-oriented approach, 2 day course 14.5–15.5.2016 Electric Public Speaking, 2 day course by Avocet Consulting 1.12–2.12.2014 Successful Negotiation, 2 day course by Coverdale Austria 2.6.–3.6.2014 Leadership and Management in Science, 2 day course by Coverdale Austria 2.2013–3.2013 Management of Research and Development Projects, 8 day course by Roland Gareis Consulting, Vienna Principal Investigator in Projects: 4.2020–3.2021 Synthesis of Disease Spread and Network Reduction Data for COVID- 19 Simulation: Wiener Wissenschafts- and Technologiefonds (WWTF). The project collects data from mobile phone operators as well as sources of epidemiological data for analyses related to the spread and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Total project budget and own institute funding: €50.000 2 9.2019–8.2022 Building Regulations Information for Submission Envolvement – Vienna (BRISE-Vienna): Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) of the European Regional Development Fund. This project, with the City of Vienna and 3 further partners, deals with the digitalisation of building regulation information and processes. I lead the research on machine learning and reasoning. Total project budget: €6.1 million. Own institute funding: €569.640. 11.2019–10.2023 Domain Specific Systems for Information Extraction and Retrieval (DoSSIER): EU Marie Curie International Training Network. This project with 8 partners trains 15 PhD students on Domain-Specific Search, in particular in the domains of innovation, law, and medicine. I am coordinator of this project. Total project budget: €4.1 million. Own institute funding: €759.700. 1.2019–12.2022 Visual History of the Holocaust (VHH): EU Innovation Action 822670. This project develops search and analysis tools for multimodal documentary material from the holocaust, and fits the tools to the research workflows of historians. Total project budget: €5.3 million, of which €5 million funded by the EU. Own institute funding: €220.000. 10.2016–9.2019 Data Market Austria (DMA): Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Lighthouse Project 855404. This project of 17 Austrian partners is developing the technology and environment for a Data-Services Ecosystem in Austria, which makes possible the straightforward exchange of data, services and computational infrastructure between members of the Ecosystem. I coordinated this project until October 2017, and advised after this date. Total project budget: €3.8 million. Own institute funding: €360.000. 1.2016–9.2017 HISNI: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) BRIDGE project 689189, Harnessing Information from Social Networks in Industry 4.0. This project analyses messages that are exchanged between employees in a factory-internal social network, with the goal of developing techniques to better target messages at the employee most qualified to respond to a message. Total project budget: €151.376. Own institute funding: €121.112. This project was done in collaboration with the company Tieto in Austria. 9.2015–10.2017 Self-Optimizer: Eurostars project 9867. This project optimises semantic matching performance to provide a new automated approach for retrieving prior art documentation for patent search and efficiently support decisions in patent information workflows. Total project budget: €1.130.600. Own institute funding: €276.320. This project was done in collaboration with the company Uppdragshuset in Sweden. 2.2015–7.2017 KConnect: EU H2020 Innovation Action 644753, Khresmoi Multilingual Medical Text Analysis, Search and Machine Translation Connected in a Thriving Data-Value Chain. This project takes the medical text analysis and search technologies resulting from the Khresmoi project (see below), develops them further, adapts them to the electronic medical record domain, and builds an ecosystem of end-users around the technology. I was coordinator of this project. Total project budget: €3.9 million of which €3.0 million funded by the EU. Own institute funding: €677.000. 10.2013–12.2017 ADmIRE: Austrian Science Fund (FWF) single partner project, Abstracting Domain-Specific Information Retrieval and Evaluation (P25905-N23). This project researched the use of systematic reviews for Information Retrieval evaluation. Total funding: €343.200. 3 6.2013–12.2013 RSDD: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) project, Roadmap Study on the topic of Conquering Data, with 2 partners (Project 840200). This project wrote the 10-year research roadmap for research in Intelligent Data Analytics in Austria. Total funding: €80.000. Own institute funding: €30.000. 11.2012–4.2015 VISCERAL: EU Support Action ICT-FP7-318068, Visual Concept Extraction Challenge in Radiology. This project built a cloud-based infrastructure for the evaluation of search and analysis algorithms on big data, and used this infrastructure in running benchmarks. The use case is the analysis and search