CV

• currently on leave at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (01/2010-04/2011)
• since 01/2006: Research assistant at the database group
• 01/2003-12/2005: Postgraduate student at Graduiertenkolleg “Knowledge Representation”

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• 06/2008: Dr. (equiv. to PhD) in Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany (advisor: Erhard Rahm)
• 12/2002: Diploma (equiv. to Master) in Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany

Contact

E-Mail: thor@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Research

• PhD thesis “Automatic Mapping Processing on Web Data” (in German) (submitted 11/2007, defense talk 05/2008)
• Web Data Integration
• Citation Analysis
• Web Usage Mining and Online Recommendations (finished)

Teaching

Fall 2009/10

• Lecture Data Warehousing
• Exercises for lecture Database systems 1
• Advanced Seminar on Cloud Data Management

Spring 2009

• Lecture Data Integration
• Exercises for lecture Database systems 2
• Practical database course

Fall 2008/09

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 1
• Practical database course
• Practical data warehouse course
• Advanced Seminar on Ontology management

Spring 2008

• Lecture Data Integration
• Exercises for lecture Database systems 2
• Practical database course

Fall 2007/08

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 1
• Exercises for lecture Database systems 2
• Practical database course
• Advanced Seminar on Integration of Web Data

Spring 2007

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 1
• Practical database course
• Practical data warehouse course

Fall 2006/2007

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 2
• Practical database course
• Advanced Seminar on Data Cleaning

Spring 2006

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 1
• Practical database course

Fall 2005/2006

• Exercises for lecture Database systems 2
• Advanced Seminar on Schema Evolution

Students

• Frank Sander: Automatic Matching of hotel datasets (working title)
• Elina Jundin: A comparison of mySQL and CouchDB (working title)
• Michael Fiedler: PubMed-to-Database: A hybrid approach for storing XML data in a relational database (working title)
• Lars Kolb: A framework for fair comparison of match approaches, 2009
• Sven Schilling: Practicability analysis for Master Data Management, 2009
• Xavier Azagra Boronat: Comparison of HTML-aware tools for web data extraction, 2008
• Michael Schwipps: Development of a application framework for iFuice, 2007
• Michael Scherf: Extraction of semi-structured date for iFuice, 2007
• Sarah Gebhardt: Extraction of local data for iFuice, 2007
• Nico Heller: Integration of bibliographic data with iFuice, 2007
• Sebastian Stoll: Website Matching with COMA++, 2005

Service

• Publicity Co-Chair WAIM 2008
• External Reviewer ICDE 2008, VLDB 2007, SIGMOD 2006, BTW 2005
• Reviewer Data & Knowledge Engineering, IJSWIS Journal, Performance Evaluation

Scholarships

• CIDR graduate student scholarship (2007)
• Graduate student scholarship from the Germany Research Foundation (2003-2005)
• Undergraduate student scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation (2000-2002)

Publications

Endrullis, S.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Evaluation of Query Generators for Entity Search Engines Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management (USETIM) 2009-08

Köpcke, H.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Comparative evaluation of entity resolution approaches with FEVER Proc. 35th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Demo 2009-08

Thor, A.; Hartung, M.; Groß, A.; Kirsten, T.; Rahm, E. An Evolution-based Approach for Assessing Ontology Mappings - A Case Study in the Life Sciences Proc. of 13. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), 2009 2009-03

Bornmann, L.; Marx, W.; Schier, H.; Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Daniel, H.-D. Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry Journal of Informetrics, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 27-35 2009

Aumueller, D.; Thor, A. Mashup-Werkzeuge zur Ad-hoc-Datenintegration im Web Datenbank-Spektrum, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 26 2008-09

Thor, A. Automatische Mapping-Verarbeitung auf Webdaten Dissertation, Universität Leipzig 2008

Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Aumueller, D. Dynamic Fusion of Web Data Proc. XSym07, Vienna, LNCS, Sep. 2007 2007-09 [10 citations]

Thor, Andreas; Aumueller, David; Rahm, Erhard Data Integration Support for Mashups Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, IIWeb, 2007. Vancouver, Canada 2007-07 [11 citations]

Kirsten, T.; Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Instance-based matching of large life science ontologies Proc. DILS 2007, LNCS 2007-06 [14 citations]

Thor, A.; Kirsten, T.; Rahm, E. Instance-based matching of hierarchical ontologies Proc. of 12. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web 2007-03 [8 citations]

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. MOMA - A Mapping-based Object Matching System Proc. of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research 2007-01 [27 citations]

Rahm, E.; Thor, A. Citation analysis of database publications ACM Sigmod Record 2005-12 [32 citations]

Thor, A.; Golovin, N.; Rahm, E. Adaptive Website Recommendations with AWESOME VLDB Journal 14(4) 2005-11

Rahm, E.; Thor, A.; Aumueller, D.; Do, H.H.; Golovin, N.; Kirsten, T. iFuice - Information Fusion utilizing Instance Correspondences and Peer Mappings 8th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2005-06 [18 citations]

Kirsch, C.; Thor, A. Extra groß iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik, 11/2004 2004-11

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. AWESOME - A Data Warehouse-based System for Adaptive Website Recommendations Proc. 30th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2004-08 [13 citations]

Thor, A.; Rahm, E. Data-Warehouse-basierte Architektur für adaptive Online-Recommendations Proc. Workshop “Content- und Wissensmanagement”, Leipziger Informatiktage (LIT), Leipzig, 2003 2003-09