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Name

Ulrich Norbisrath

Address

see contact (http://contact.ulno.net)

Homepage

http://ulno.net

Birthday

22.07.1973

Place of birth

Aachen, Germany

Marital status

married

Parents

Uschi Norbisrath (geb. Geller, *10.09.1951)
Walter Norbisrath (*15.01.1950)

Siblings

Hendrik Norbisrath (*12.06.1980)

26.06.2007

PhD Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
Research areas: Component based programming, model driven engineering, software architectures, smart home systems
Dissertation title: Configuring eHome Systems
Grade: magna cum laude (1.0)
Advisors: Professor Dr.-Ing. M. Nagl, RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), Professor Dr. rer.-nat. Albert Zündorf, University of Kassel (Kassel, Germany)

14.07.2000

Diploma Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
Research areas: Functional programming languages, networks
Thesis title: Port Based Distributed Haskell (in German)

28.08.1995

Intermediate diploma (Vordiplom) Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)

15.02.1995

Begin in 2nd semester Computer Science,
Focus on Software Engineering and Mathematics

01.10.1992

Begin in Mathematics, focus on practical Mathematics and Computer Science

11.06.1992

Diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation (Abitur), Grade: 1.7 (German grades: 1.0 (best) to 6.0 (worst) 1.7 was third best grade in my year)

1983-1992

Inda-Gymnasium Kornelimünster

1979-1983

Primary-School Aachen-Walheim

31.08.2009 -
present

Senior research fellow in Distributed Systems group at University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)

06.11.2006 -
present

Lecturer and researcher for Software Engineering and Distributed Computing at University of Tartu, see also my teaching and advising oriented pages

08.10.2009 -
30.10.2009

Visiting researcher at Prof. Lisa Singh's group at Georgetown University (http://georgetown.edu), Washington, DC, USA

01.07.2007 -
30.08.2009

Postdoc in Distributed Systems group at University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia)

24.09.2007 -
22.10.2007

Visiting researcher at Prof. M. Brian Blake's group at Georgetown University (http://georgetown.edu), Washington, DC, USA

01.04.2004 -
31.10.2006

Consultant of the Department of Computer Science (Fachgruppenreferent)

01.04.2002 -
27.6.2007

PhD student lecturer and system administrator at RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), RWTH Aachen University, Department of Computer Science 3
Teaching: Supervision, lectures, seminars and lab courses
Additional: Linux administration, web-server administration

01.07.1994 -
31.03.1999

Studentische Hilfskraft (similar to research assistant), aps GmbH, European Center for Mechatronik(Aachen, Germany)
Projects:
- 3D robotic and milling simulation
- Application design of Lotus Notes applications
- Administration of heterogeneous development environments (SGI IRIX, PC Linux, PC WIN NT, SUN SUN-OS, SUN Linux, PPC Parallel Computer VXWorks, Lotus Domino-Server)
- Preparation of and participation in international meetings (IECON '98)

01/2002 -
present

For current projects and research look at my project and research pages.

03/2008 -
present

Representative of University of Tartu (Dept. of Computer Science) for Mobile Computing (i.e. on Mobile Monday Estonia events)

13.03.2009 -
30.09.2009

Mentor in the Google Summer of Code 2009 (project: sip-communicator)

17.03.2008 -
30.09.2008

Mentor in the Google Summer of Code 2008 (project: sip-communicator)

16.-19.09.2008

Course on Supervision, Sagadi, Estonia

11/2007 -
04/2008

Course on Gaming: Situated and Action Learning, Cultural Institute in Viljandi, Estonia

05/1999 - 10/2004

Management Director of the company WeSolv'IT (Specialization in network and integrating Linux solutions
Projects:
- pengaway - Linux Gateway (In beginning of 2001 in 30 Schools and 5 offices -> approx. 1000 Computers connected to the Internet)
- pengaworker - Linux desktop solution (Application in three offices and one school "Realschule Alsdorf")
- pengasurf - Linux-Terminal just for surfing the web (Mayersche Deutschland, Förderverein Kunst und Internet)
- Datawarehouse Solution for Düker Sanitär
- Reengineering and extension of the Linux solution for the Mayersche Deutschland
- Accelerated email accounting at schools for ePost (15000 mail-accounts created from 2001/07 to 2002/01)
Experience: Network administration (pharmacies, churches, architects, insurance offices, movie production office, travel agencies, schools), web design, experience in teaching and customer care
Research: virtualization, system security, network deployment strategies, requirements analysis, functional filters for databases

05/1999 - 02/2000

Developer, Multidata GmbH, Prüm
Projects: Application development for the health area
- Consulting and support migrating SCO servers to Linux
Experience: Migration of Windows 9x applications to Linux
- Network administration

03/1992 - 11/1993

Game developer, Trifle Softworx
Project: Development of the computer game McMinos for the Atari ST computer

Languages

German

native

English

fluent

Estonian

basic

French

basic

Operating Systems

Windows Vista/XP/2k/NT, Linux, Dos

expert

BSD, SUN OS/Solaris, IRIX, VX Works

extensive

Applications

MS Office, Openoffice.org, Eclipse, VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU

expert

Programming languages

C/C++, Java, Python, Unix Shell Scripts, Perl, StarBasic, Assembler 68k, Haskell

expert

Tcl/Tk, VBasic, Modula 3, Pascal, SQL, Fortran

extensive

ADA, Ruby, Lua, Prolog

basic

05/2009

Best paper award with DougFlow — Offering Scientific Applications via Web Services on The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services – ICIW2009, Venice, Italy

01.03.2002 - 28.02.2004

Enhanced scholarship for Graduate College Software for Communication Systems, RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)

15.07.1991 - 27.07.1991

Course for students with outstanding performance in natural sciences in high school: High school Students' (Schülerakademie) II in Braunschweig, Germany (for highly talented students): Mathematic Methods in Neurophysics

03/2009

Feasibilty study for research initiative Multidimensional Contextual Graph Databases, Enterprise Estonia: $20,000 for 3 months (one of the project leaders)

11/2008

Scholarship for visiting PhD student, DoRa European Social Fund: $3,000 (acquired myself)|

11/2007

4 supporting student scholarships for 4 years, Estonian Science Foundation: $20,000/annum (acquired together with Eero Vainikko)

10/2007

Playstation Computing Engine (16 Sony Playstation 3), Tiger University Estonia: $15,000 (acquired myself)

03/2008

High Performance Computing Center, University Base Funding: $250,000 (acquired in team)

04/2008

Centre of Excellence in Computer Science (EXCS), European Union, Centers of Excellence: $1,000,000/annum ($300,000 for computer science) for 7 years (acquired in team)

03/2004

3 Scholarships for students as research students, Graduate College Software for Communication Systems, support for 2 years, total $36,000 (acquired myself)

24-28.05.2009

Committee member of SLAECE and ICIW 2009 conference (Venice, Italy)

09/2008 - present

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

12.06.2008

Session chair: ICIW 2008 - IWAS - Web Technologies, Frameworks, Languages, Mechanisms (Athens, Greece)

26.09.2003

Session chair: ONLINE 2003 - Symposium VI-4 Web-Services: Neue Strategien und Techniken für EAI, ONLINE 2003 (Düsseldorf, Germany)

dancing (competitive ballroom standard + salsa), singing, reading, cooking, swiming, cycling