Short Biography Ulrich Norbisrath

Ulrich Norbisrath is a senior research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has been working in Estonia since the end of 2006. He teaches courses on agile and visual software development and systems administration. He is involved in research projects from the areas of Ubiquitous Computing and Information Management. His research groups are part of the Distributed Systems group in Tartu. He invented the concept of Friend-to-Friend (F2F) Computing (http://f2f.ulno.net) and is one of the founders of the Search-Logger project (http://www.search-logger.com). He is currently working on creating a biometric technologies broker framework, and researching new ways to support complex search. In his PhD (2006) at the RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) he researched a way to enable the easy deployment of smart home services in random physical environments. In his free time Ulrich Norbisrath enjoys cycling, dancing, swimming, cooking and reading.  

Longer Biography Ulrich Norbisrath

Ulrich Norbisrath is a senior research fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has been working in Estonia since the end of 2006. He teaches courses on agile and visual software development and systems administration. He is involved in research projects from the areas of Ubiquitous Computing and Information Management. In Ubiquitous Computing he is working on ad-hoc networks and spontanous private clouds as well as a biometric technology broker framework. This framework allows simple intgration of biometric and other authentication methods into industrial applications. He invented the concept of Friend-to-Friend (F2F) Computing (http://f2f.ulno.net) which allows ad-hoc establishment of scientific or service based networks or private clouds. He has developed methods and tools supporting migrating legacy desktop and server environments to the cloud and calculating respective costs. For three years now he is active in the area of analyzing the search behavior of today's Internet users. He is especially focusing on complex search tasks not being fulfilled by a simple look-up but needing to explore several sources and demanding manual aggregation of information. For this purpose he and his group developed the Search-Logger (http://www.search-logger.com) project. Search-Logger monitors entire search sessions related to specific information needs. The Search-Logger project is currently extended with the ability to publish a personal search strategy for a specific search task enabling new ways of social search. His vision is to use graph storage and visualization techniques to enable explorative search as one solution to the ever growing information overload problem. Ulrich Norbisrath teaches courses on agile software development, graph transformation, systems administration, and mobile computing. He likes supervising students and has successfully supervised more than 40 master and bachelor students. He currently employs in his group four PhD students supporting his research. He is the organizer of the Fujabadays 2011 and member in several reviewing committees. In his PhD (2006) at the RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) he researched a way to enable the easy deployment of smart home services in random physical environments. He used a contract and graph transformation based approach to simplify the domain specific software composition and configuration process in the smart home domain. In his free time Ulrich Norbisrath enjoys cycling, dancing, swimming, cooking and reading.