Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp
Professor for Scientific Information Analytics
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BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Bela Gipp (Dr.-Ing.) holds the chair for Scientific Information Analytics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research interests lie at the intersection of Information Science and Data Science. His group’s research focuses on developing and applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and methods for retrieving, analyzing, and visualizing information in large datasets. The implications of blockchain technology – for the benefit of both industry and society – is another research domain that Bela is passionate about.
Previously, Bela was full professor at the University of Wuppertal, where he held the chair for Data & Knowledge Engineering from 2018 to 2022. Before that, Bela served as junior professor at the University of Konstanz, where he led the Information Science Group from 2015 to 2018. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science (summa cum laude) at the University of Magdeburg in 2013. He conducted the majority of his doctoral research abroad, while on a 4-year research scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, he also made use of the proximity to the Silicon Valley to found the tech start-up SciPlore and co-found Docear. After his Ph.D., he received postdoctoral research fellowships at U.C. Berkeley and at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
In his youth, Bela participated in Jugend Forscht, Germany’s premier youth science competition. After winning 1st place at the state-level competition three times, he was honored by the German Chancellor and Germany’s Federal President. Scholarships allowed him to study semesters abroad in Sydney, Beijing, Staffordshire and at UC Berkeley. Today, he is involved as a jury member and mentor for Jugend Forscht.
Bela has published over 150 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, in addition to three books and several patents. He has a h-index of 45. Currently, he is the head of these DFG-funded projects and is a member of the DFG Graduate School 2196 Dokument – Text – Edition. He has secured over 5 million EUR in third-party funding and venture capital investments for his research thus far. Additionally, he maintains active research collaborations with industry. For example, he founded and is the acting CIO of the OriginStamp AG based in Switzerland.
Bela serves as a board member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. He is a member of the scientific advisory board for the DAAD Program offering International Research Stays for Computer Scientists and the internationalization officer of the institute for computer science. In his spare time, Bela enjoys photography, designing, building and flying innovative drones and loves to paraglide in the Alps.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp
Papendiek 14
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Office: SUB Historic Building 0.212
Mail: gipp@uni-goettingen.de
Schedule Appointment: here
Project websites
▸ Originstamp.org – Trusted Timestamping using Bitcoin
▸ My DFG-funded Projects
▸ Docear/Sciplore Mindmapping Software
▸ Der GSM-Schutzengel
▸ Der High-Tech-Bernhardiner
▸ AccessAngel (Software)
▸ Book about the Epass
Personal
▸ Google Scholar
▸ My personal photo website
▸ ResearchGate
▸ LinkedIn
▸ X
▸ YouTube
▸ Instagram
▸ Facebook
SHORT CV
Since April 2022
Full Professor (W3) for Scientific Information Analytics
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2018 – 2022
Full Professor (W3) for Data & Knowledge Engineering
Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany
2015 – 2018
Junior Professor (W1)
Head of the Information Science Group
University of Konstanz, Germany
2014 – 2015
Postdoc
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
2013 – 2014
Postdoc
University of California (UC) Berkeley, USA
2009 – 2013
Research Fellowship
UC Berkeley, School of Information & Department of Statistics, USA
Ph.D. defense in 2013 at the University of Magdeburg, Germany
NEWS
Faktor Magazine podcast interviews Bela Gipp
The podcast of Faktor Magazine released an episode with Bela Gipp discussing the opportunities and threats of AI, specifically of AI-generated text, in the context of academic research and education. In the interview, Bela touches on some of his current research [...]
Profile of Bela Gipp and his research group
The recently released 2022 Annual Report of Göttingen University introduces Prof. Bela Gipp and his newly established Professorship for Scientific Information Analytics (GippLab) at the Institute for Computer Science and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB). In the interview, [...]
Interview with Bela Gipp: “Fehlende Offenheit ist das Problem”
Read the full article as here or in the faktor magazin.
NDR Synapsen Podcast with Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke
Bela Gipp and Norman Meuschke recently appeared on the ''Synapsen'' Science Podcast by NDR Info. Alternatively, you can listen to it on the NDR website. The topic of the episode was: Keine Angst vor Künstlicher Intelligenz? The podcast [...]
Interview of Bela Gipp on the Opportunities and Risks of AI for University Teaching
The local newspaper, Göttinger Tageblatt, interviewed Bela Gipp on the opportunities and risks of AI for university teaching. Read the article here or online.
Stern magazine reports on Bela Gipp’s inventions with ”Jugend Forscht”
The German magazine, Stern, just published an article about Bela’s research projects and his inventions while participating in the ‘Jugend Forscht’ competitions as a student. The article also describes one of Bela’s earliest inventions, the “GSM Schutzengel”, with which Bela [...]
Our research group moves to the University of Göttingen
Bela Gipp has recently accepted a new full professorship at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Website, Wikipedia page). The new position will be at the intersection of the Department of Computer Science and the research department of the State and University Library (Website, Wikipedia [...]
Panel Discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises
Bela Gipp participated in the panel discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises as an expert on New Technologies. Other participants were Marc Wagner (on the subject of New Work) and Simon Schnetzer (on the subject New Generations). The [...]
Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society
Scientific research does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, scientists and society both benefit from continuous and close collaboration. In this manner, new insights and solutions from academia can be directly applied to real-world problems, allowing innovation to be incrementally [...]
Newspaper FAZ reports on our research to detect and deter academic plagiarism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) describes how our research on novel plagiarism detection methods and blockchain-backed decentralized trusted timestamping facilitates combating plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. Read the article on the FAZ website or here (click on the article to enlarge):
Funding approved for 3-year research project by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
We are happy to announce that the DFG (German Research Foundation), has awarded our group a research grant for our project: “Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism”. The total funding sum of 633,000 Euro will be made available over a 3-year period [...]
Wikipedia rolls out our research on providing semantic information for mathematical formulae
As of January 9, Wikipedia allows semantically enhancing mathematical formulae with the definitions of the terms they contain. For example, the formula of the famous mass-energy equivalence E=mc² now contains information on the variables E, m, and c. Clicking on the formula opens an information [...]
DAAD presents new stipend program and interviews Bela Gipp
The DAAD, or the German Academic Exchange Service, has recently announced a new Stipend Program called ''IFI'' (Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatikerinnen und Informatiker). The IFI Program is available to Master’s students, Ph.D. candidates, and Postdoctoral researchers enrolled at German Universities and studying or [...]
Bela Gipp to give a talk at ETH Zürich
ETH Zurich's DOI Desk is organizing a full-day event on "Persistent Identifiers in Research" to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) help ensure the discoverability of digital objects on the Internet. For example, the assignment of DOIs (Digital Object [...]
Misconceptions about Trusted Timestamping
Trusted time-stamping can be very useful, but it is crucial to understand what it can prove and what it cannot prove. Timestamping can only prove that the time-stamped data, such as a photo, a video, pdf, etc. already existed [...]
OriginStamp and Südkurier collaborate
Our startup, the OriginStamp AG, now collaborates with the German Newspaper Südkurier to offer their readers our Trusted Timestamping Service. Here you find articles reporting about this collaboration: June 2019 „Die Blockchain ist ein digitales Notizbuch“ Source: Südkurier Read more [...]
BUW introduces Bela Gipp as new professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering
Dr. Bela Gipp, previously Junior-Professor of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, has been appointed Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal. You can find the German press release here. At the School of [...]
Article in Südkurier
The Südkurier reports on our Decentralized Trusted Timestamping project Originstamp.org.
German supreme court cites our research in its ruling on dashcam recordings
If you have ever browsed viral videos, chances are, you have come across accident footage recorded by dashcams. Dashboard cameras, or Dashcams, have become increasingly wide-spread among motorists. Especially in countries where drivers are more likely to ignore the rules [...]
Talk on blockchain technologies at the ‘Bodensee Mittelstand 4.0’ talk series
Bela Gipp will give a talk on blockchain technologies and visions at the event 'Blockchain – eine Kette an Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen' organized by the Wirtschaftsförderung Bodenseekreis and the competence centre cyberLAGO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fxb6QgHIDg
Talk on the immutable research data trail at conference on Blockchain for Science
Bela Gipp gave a talk about the immutable research data trail at the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation held on 5-6 November in Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNVXc_2uJc More information about the conference is available here.
Our blockchain-based Dashcam App in the news
An article about the Dashcam App in BTC-ECHO based on OriginStamp project. Read the article here. To learn more about the Dashcam-APP, you may want to read our paper that we’ve published in 2016: B. Gipp, J. Kosti, and C. Breitinger, [...]
Interview: Blockchain technology research in “Die Welt” & “NDR Info”
Click here to open the online version of the interview in "Die Welt". Bela Gipp was also interviewed by NDR Info (audio download).
New DFG Project about math retrieval
The DFG, Germany’s organization for research funding, has awarded our group a 3-year research grant for our project: “Methods and Tools to Advance the Retrieval of Mathematical Knowledge from Digital Libraries for Search-, Recommendation- and Assistance-Systems” (Click here for more [...]