Dr. Moritz Schubotz
Decentralized Information Infrastructure for Mathematics and beyond
BIOGRAPHY
Moritz Schubotz (Dr. rer. nat.) leads the “Research and Projects Mathematics” department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and is a substitute lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin. He closely collaborates with Gipplab and advises Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students at Gipplab.
He aims to establish a Decentralized Information Infrastructure for Mathematics research and beyond. In contrast to Centralized and Federated approaches, he investigates the potential of decentralized architectures to achieve better scalability, more resilience against censorship, disinformation, access barriers, and a more efficient and green execution. Together with the Gipplab Ph.D. students Cornelius Ihle and Dennis Trautwein, he analyzes peer-to-peer protocols in detail to develop a deep understanding of the decentralized technology stack. With his project team in Berlin, he started applying the findings to infrastructure projects in Germany and Europe.
In addition, he follows his passion for making mathematical research data AI-ready. André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Ankit Satpute, Maxence Azzouz, and Felix Petersen share this special interest and research methods and tools to make mathematical expressions more beneficial for humans and computers.
He has been an off-site collaborator at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S.A.) since 2014. He was a fellow at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, from July 2017 to August 2018. Earlier, he earned a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from TU Berlin, Germany.
He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to numerous successful grant applications at his former universities. He served for several years as an elected member in several commissions (Fakultätsrat (faculty board), Haushaltsausschuss (financial steering committee), Akademischer Senat (university board), and others) in the university self-administration.
He spends his spare time with his three kids. If time permits, he enjoys team sports in the water, such as canoe polo and water polo.
SHORT CV
10/2022 – 04/2023
10/2021 – 04/2022
Interim Professor
University of Wuppertal, Germany
04/2019 – 09/2024
Senior researcher
Department of Mathematics, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
09/2018 – 03/2019
Senior researcher
Data & Knowledge Engineering Group, University of Wuppertal, Germany
2017 – 2018
Postdoc
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
2016 – 2017
Research Associate
Information Science Group, University of Konstanz, Germany
2012 – 2016
Research Associate
Database and Information Management Group, TU Berlin, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The complete list of publications is available here.
1. Current publications (Mathematical Information Retrieval)
Improving the Representation and Conversion of Mathematical Formulae by Considering their Textual Context
M Schubotz, A Greiner-Petter, P Scharpf, N Meuschke, HS Cohl, B Gipp
Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2018, Fort Worth, TX, USA, June 03-07, 2018
DOI: 10.1145/3197026.3197058 Preprint Bibtex
Mathoid: Robust, Scalable, Fast and Accessible Math Rendering for Wikipedia
M Schubotz, G Wicke
Intelligent Computer Mathematics – International Conference, CICM 2014, Coimbra, Portugal, July 7-11, 2014. Proceedings
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08434-3_17 Bibtex
2. Vision papers
math.wikipedia.org: A vision for a collaborative semi-formal, language independent math(s) encyclopedia
J Corneli, M Schubotz
2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving, Obergurgl, Austria, March 26 -30, 2017
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A Vision for Performing Social and Economic Data Analysis using Wikipedia’s Edit History
E Dahm, M Schubotz, N Meuschke, B Gipp
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017
DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3053363 Preprint Bibtex