DWS Area: Data Science

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Reliable Evaluation of Generative AI University of Mannheim, Data and Web Science Group (DWS)Fixed-term position (1 year, full-time)Starting date: As soon as possible About the Project The Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim is seeking a ...

The Vector Foundation funds the project ZEGeKI (Zuverlässige Evaluation Generativer KI, English: Reliable Evaluation of Generative AI).  The motivation of this project lies in the observation that, following open science principles, benchmarks for evaluating AI systems (not limited to, but ...

Today, Franz Krause has defended his PhD thesis on Process-Driven RDF Knowledge Graphs as Semantic Digital Twins for Industry 5.0

Today, Andreea Iana has defended her PhD on “Multifaceted Neural News Recommendation: Common Componentes, Bias Mitigation, and Multilinguality”.

Two papers have been accepted at the European Semantic Web Conference 2026.

Andreea Iana and Martin Böckling receive a grant from the university's Open Science Office for the SpatialBenchRAG project.

The DWS group has two papers accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2025.

Four papers of the DWS group got accepted at the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference. This year, the acceptance rate was 22.4% for full papers in the research track.

On Thursday, September 26th, Michael Schlechtinger has defended his PhD thesis on “Investigating, Predicting, and Mitigating Collusive Behavior in Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Pricing AIs”, supervised by Prof. Heiko Paulheim. The thesis has been conducted in the KarekoKI project, an ...

Dr. Rita Sousa has achieved an Open Science Grant for providing up-to-date Knowledge Graph Embeddings