Prof. Dr. Andreas Zell

Office hours (Sprechstunde):

  • Thursdays, 13:30 - 15:00, in my office Sand 1, A310, or after lectures

Research interests

  • Machine learning algorithms and their applications
  • Evolutionary algorithms (GA, ES) and their applications
  • Autonomous mobile robots, sensor integration, robot vision
  • Bioinformatics and computational chemistry

Scientific Curriculum Vitae

  • 1972-1980 F.-M.-Schwerd-Gymnasium (high school), Speyer/Rhine, Germany
  • 1980-1982 Undergraduate studies at Univ. Kaiserslautern
  • 1982 B.S. in mathematics, B.S. in computer science
  • 1982-1986 Graduate studies of computer science with minor in mathematics, Univ. Kaiserslautern
  • 1986 Diploma in computer science; thesis: Concepts of parallel logic programs and a compiler for their realization
  • 1986-1987 DAAD scholarship at Stanford University, USA
  • 1987 M.S. in Computer Science: Symbolic and Heuristic Computation, Stanford Univ., USA
  • 1986-1989 Research assistant, Univ. Stuttgart, Computer science (IfI), at the chair for programming languages (Prof. Dr. G. Barth)
  • 1989 Ph.D. in computer science, thesis: Metalevel architectures of logic programs
  • 1990-1994 Assistant professor, Univ. Stuttgart, IPVR, at the chair of applied computer science - image understanding (Prof. Dr. P. Levi)
  • 1991 German University Software Prize for the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS)
  • 1992 Int. MasPar Challenge Prize
  • 1994 Habilitation (venia legendi) in computer science, Univ. Stuttgart, Postdoc thesis: Simulation of Neural Networks (in German, available from Addison-Wesley, Germany)
  • since 10/1995 full professor, chair of computer architecture, University of Tuebingen, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science.
  • 10/2000 - 9/2002 Dean of the computer science dept., member of the Senate of the University of Tuebingen
  • 2001 founding director of the Centre for Bioinformatics Tübingen (ZBIT)

Publications

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