Rudi Studer

Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2008
Born1951 (age 7374)
Alma materUniversity of Stuttgart
Scientific career
FieldsSemantic Web
Knowledge Management
Intelligent Systems
Semantic Web Services
Linked Data
InstitutionsKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
IBM
Ontoprise GmbH
Forschungszentrum Informatik
Thesis Konzepte für die interaktive Entwicklung und Benutzung von Anwendersystemen
Doctoral advisorErich Neuhold
Rul Gunzenhäuser
Doctoral studentsDieter Fensel
Denny Vrandečić
Websitewww.aifb.kit.edu/web/Rudi_Studer/en

Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at KIT, Germany. He served as head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He is a former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, an STI International Fellow, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editors-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the "Semantic Wikipedia" proposal which led to the development of Wikidata.