Ubbo Visser
Assoc. Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Fellow CNSA

Education
2003 | Habilitation Computer Science, Universitat Bremenn (GER) |
1995 | Ph.D. Geoinformatics, Universitat Munster (GER) |
1988 | M.Sc. Geography, Major: Ecology, Universitat Munster (GER) |
Professional Experience
2012 - | Associate Professor, University of Miami, Department of Computer Science |
2010 - 2012 | Research Associate Professor, University of Miami, Department of Computer Science |
2008 - 2010 | Visiting Associate Professor, University of Miami, Department of Computer Science |
2004 - 2008 | Privatdozent, Universitat Bremen, Department of Computer Science and Center for Computing Technologies |
1998 - 2003 | Assistant Professor, Universitat Bremen, Department of Computer Science and Center for Computing Technologies |
1997 - 1998 | Senior Researcher & Managing Director, Universitat Bremen, Department of Computer Science and Center for Computing Technologies |
1996 - 1997 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Neurocomputing Research Centre, School of Computer Science |
1996 - 1996 | Visiting Researcher, Queensland University of Technology, Neurocomputing Research Centre, School of Computer Science |
1991 - 1995 | Senior researcher, Universitat Munster, Institute for Agricultural Informatics |
2007 - 2011 | Co-Founder, CEO and Consultant, aitainment GmbH |
1995 - | Co-Founding team member, decided to stay in academics, proPlant GmbH |
1994 - | Co-Founding team member, decided to stay in academics, conterra GmbH |
Honors & Acknowledgements
ONLINESTAR 2009
Scientific Challenge Award
Best paper award (2nd place)
Best innovative regional software (2nd place)
Artificial Intelligence Award of the Society for Informatics (GI)
Final qualifier
Best new software prize
ACER award (2nd place)
Memberships
Internal Advisory Board of the RoboCup Federation
Trustee of the RoboCup Federation
Executive Member of the Media & IT Association (State of Bremen)
Executive Member of the RoboCup Federation
Co-Speaker of the German RoboCup Association (Arbeitskreis RoboCup)
Advisory Committee Member for RoboCup World Championships
RoboCup Symposium
FLAIRS-30
RoboCup Symposium
IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), workshop program committee
RoboCup Scientific Jury Simulation Leagues
RoboCup Symposium
AAAI’s Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
RoboCup Symposium
Humanoid Soccer Robots WS on Humanoids 2012 Conference
RoboCup Symposium
Humanoid Soccer Robots WS on Humanoids 2011 Conference
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
RoboCup Symposium
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
Humanoid-Soccer-Workshop, Humanoids
Research Projects
Integrated Knowledge Environment: Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC) for LINCS-BD2K
U. Visser is Co-Investigator, NIH U54 (1U54HL127624-01), 09/14- 04/19, approx.
$250,000 for U. Visser, $2,550,656 total.
RegenBase: A Searchable Database to Organize Regeneration Knowledge via Ontologies
U. Visser is Co-Investigator, NIH RO1 (1R01NS080145-01), 05/12 - 04/17,
approx. $230,000 for U. Visser, $2,128,230 total.
Currently extended to 04/2017
Education for high school and SPL
LIFE Bridge (LINCS)
Bridge funding from NIH-LINCS (3U01HL111561), 07/01/2013 - 06/30/2014,
$50,000 for U. Visser, U. Visser is Co-PI of LIFE, $325,000 total.
Simplifying encoding of bioassays to accelerate translational drug discovery
LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data Sets
U. Visser is Co-PI, NIH-LINCS Strategic Grant (U01HL111561), 09/11-08/13,
$100,000 for U. Visser, $750,000 total
BioAssay Ontology
Boosting the 3D SSL Simulator
Feasibility Study for Online Browser Games in the USA
Publications
Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, editors RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, volume 5001 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. (Berlin / Heidelberg / New York, Springer. 2008).
Ubbo Visser Intelligent Information Integration for the Semantic Web Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence volume 3159 (Berlin / Heidelberg / New York, Springer . 2005).
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