Dr. Otthein Herzog


	AI Research Professor Universitaet Bremen		Professor of AI Tongji University
	FB3 - Mathematics/ Informatics Bibliothekstrasse 5 28359 Bremen, Germany		Wenyuan Bldg, R206 1239, Siping Road Shanghai, PRC
	oherzog[at]uni-bremen[dot]de
	+49-421 218 63564		+86-132 6229 8836

Education

1966-1967:	General Studies at the Leibniz Kolleg, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
1967-1969:	Studies of Electrical Engineering at Universitaet Stuttgart
1969-1970:	Studies of Informatics at Universitaet Karlsruhe
1970-1972:	Studies of Informatics and Mathematics at Universitaet Bonn, Diploma (MSc) in Applied Mathematics and Informatics
1972-1977:	Researcher at the Computer Science Department, Universitaet Dortmund, research stays at the Technion, Haifa, and the CS Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
1976:	Dr. rer. nat. from the Computer Science Department, Universitaet Dortmund, with a thesis on the static semantics analysis of concurrent programs using Petri Nets

Professional Experience

1977-1993:	with IBM Germany, technical and managerial positions in international software product development, Software Engeneering, and AI research. Projects included mainframe operating systems, quality assurance (DOS/VSE and Unix), communications software, full-text information retrieval systems (IBM SearchManager), CIM repository systems, and a system for environmental impact analysis
1985-1991:	Head of the first German Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, the "IBM Institute for Knowledge-based Systems" in the Scientific Center of IBM Germany. Numerous AI research and application projects, the most important one being LILOG - Natural Language Processing and Text Understanding.
1991-1993:	Senior Manager at the IBM Germany Software Development Lab: Transfer of AI technologies into IBM products such as IBM Search Manager, and IBM Data Mining.
1993-2009:	Chaired professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Universitaet Bremen heading the Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
1995-2009:	Founder and Director of the TZI - Center for Information and Communication Technologies at Universitaet Bremen (except 2000-2002).
1997-1998:	Sabbatical: Research professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1998-2024:	Affiliate Research Professor at George Mason University, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, formerly directed by the late Dr. Ryszard Michalski, and now by Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak.
2000-2002:	CTO at Lenze AG, responsible for production automation hardware and software development: from gear boxes to automation software, also founder of the Lenze AG subsidiary encoway GmbH in Bremen, software provider of configuration systems for complex products.
2004-2009:	PI of the EU FRP4 Integrated Project WearIT@Work with 42 European partners on wearable technologies for production, maintenance, healthcare, and emergencies
2004-2015:	PI (together with Prof. Scholz-Reiter) of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Cooperating Autonomous Logistics Systems" at University of Bremen.
2004-2010:	Founder and Director of the MTRC - Mobile Technologies Research Center at University of Bremen.
2004-2009:	Founder, CEO and CTO of Mobile Solutions GmbH, Bremen
2009 - :	Research Professor at Universitaet Bremen advising PhD students.
2010-2016:	Founder, CEO and CTO of InnovationsKontor Bremen GmbH.
2010-2019:	Wisdom Professor of Visual Information Technologies at Jacobs University Bremen
2015 - :	Professor of Artificial Intelligence, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and CIUC - China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center for High Density Region (CIUC), Tongji University, Shanghai.

Current research interests at Universitaet Bremen:

Multi-agent systems for modeling and simulating autonomous processes and integration of heterogeneous data sources, e.g., for production and logistics networks, in the context of Industrie 4.0
Knowledge acquisition technologies including LLM training with applications in, e.g., network security, and dynamic knowledge management in autonomous processes.
Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing for work processes and Ambient Assisted Living
Automatic content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for content-driven multimedia archiving, retrieval, and video abstracting.

At Universitaet Bremen, Dr. Herzog contributes to the interdisciplinary activities of

LogDynamics - Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics,
International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics

Current research interests at the CIUC - Tongji University:

Big Data and Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning, together with Prof. WU Zhiqiang
Multiagent Simulation Systems supporting strategic Urban Planning,
Integration of Deep Learning Models with Digital Twins for spatio-temporal city structures, together with Prof. WU Zhiqiang
Societies of Agentic Small Language Models for modeling spatio-temporal city structures, together with Prof. WU Zhiqiang, Prof. Helge Ritter, Prof. Anthony G. Cohn, Prof. Max Muehlhaeuser, and Prof. Klaus-Dieter Thoben.

Honors

Fellow of acatech – National German Academy of Science and Engineering since 2006, where he contributed to numerous acatech projects and served as Coordinator/Vice Coordinator of the acatech Topical Network “Information and Communication Technology”.
From 2011-2013 he was a member of the acatech Executive Committee with the portfolio “International Relations” where he initiated the cooperations with the Indian Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
International Member of the CAE – National Chinese Academy of Engineering (2021).
Fellow of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik (2008), and member of the AAAI, DAGM and the ACM.
Dr. Herzog was elected by an independent jury as one of the ten most influential minds of Artificial Intelligence in Germany (2019).
Honorary Professor of Tongji University (2021).
Magnolia Silver Award by the City of Shanghai in recognition of the contributions to Shanghai's development and international cooperation (2021).
2024 Chinese Government's Friendship Award.
Shanghai 2025 Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

He also serves as

Member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Knowledge Center for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) in Beijing, China,
Member of the Academic Committee of the Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems,
Trustee and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Bonn-Birlinghoven,
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Technology Network it's OWL - Intelligent Technical Systems Ostwestfalen-Lippe,
Member of the IFIP Board of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Dr. Otthein Herzog

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