Timo Homburg
Computer Scientist into Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, GIS and Semantic Web Applications.
Education
- Apr 2015 -
Jul 2019 - PhD, Computer Science (expected); University Koblenz-Landau (Koblenz, Germany)
Phd Thesis in Semantic Quality Assement and Quality Prediction of OpenStreetMap areas.
- Jul 2013 -
Aug 2013 - Summer School: Doing Business in Africa; Polytechnic Of Namibia (Windhoek, Namibia) (Grade: B)
Summer School in the Business Department of the Polytechnic of Namibia on South African history and economics.
- Mar 2012 -
Mar 2015 - M.Sc., Computer Science; Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (Grade: 1,0 (A))
Minor: Chinese Studies Thesis title: Verfahren zur Wortsegmentierung nichtalphabetischer Schriften
- Jul 2010 -
Aug 2010 - Summer School: China Cultural Exchange; Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai, China)
Summer School in the language department for cultural exchange and language study.
- Oct 2008 -
Feb 2012 - B.Sc., Computer Science; RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (Wiesbaden, Germany) (Grade: 1,4 (A))
Thesis title: Entwicklung einer Androidanwendung zur Zustandsanzeige von Messstationen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes
Teaching Experience
- Oct 2019 -
Feb 2020 - Lecturer Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz/Germany
Industry: Research
Teaching experience as lecturer in the courses “Applicationbased Software Engineering in VB.NET”
- Oct 2018 -
Feb 2019 - Lecturer Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz/Germany
Industry: Research
Teaching experience as lecturer in the courses “Applicationbased Software Engineering in VB.NET”
- Oct 2017 -
Jul 2019 - Lecturer RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden/Germany
Industry: Research
Teaching experience as lecturer in the courses “Introduction to Computer Science”, “Algorithms and Data Structures”
Working Experience
- Oct 2017 -
Dez 2019 - Systemadministrator Mainz University Of Applied Sciences, Mainz/Germany
Industry: Research
System Administrator of the research group i3Mainz
- Apr 2015 -
Dez 2019 - Researcher Mainz University Of Applied Sciences, Mainz/Germany
Industry: Research
Taking part in the SemGIS project
Researching in GIS data quality and the geospatial Semantic Web
- May 2013 -
Mar 2015 - Assistant Scientist Research group Wirtschaftsinformatik/Goethe University,Frankfurt am Main/Germany
Industry: Research
*Taking part in the EVER project *
Detailed achievements:
- Implementing algorithms needed by the project
- Getting more detailed practical knowledge of Information Retrieval methods
- Nov 2011 -
Feb 2012 - Student Employee MeteoSolutions GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
Industry: Software Engineering
Development of an Android application to display status data for measuring monitors for weather stations as a part of my Bachelor Thesis
- Mar 2011 -
Aug 2011 - Trainee Sirona Dental Systems Foshan Co. Ltd., 佛山 Foshan, China
Industry: Medical Devices
Research of a solution to connect a Syteline Version 8 ERP System to an Oracle Agile PLM System, Taking part in the development of a Parts Tracking Database for the Research and Development department
- Feb 2011 -
Feb 2011 - Student Employee RheinMain University Of Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wiesbaden/Germany
Taking part in a feasibility study for the German weather forecast organisation (DWD)
- Dec 2010 -
Feb 2011 - Student Employee DOPSY Laboratory for Distributed Systems, Wiesbaden, Germany
Industry: Research
Development of a content management system for the homepage of the laboratory
- Oct 2010 -
Dec 2010 - Student work Alfred Wegener Institute, Wiesbaden, Helgoland/Germany
Taking part in the development of a web application for fish noise categorisation in the context of my Database/Web Engineering specialisation
- Jan 2010 -
Aug 2010 - Student Employee DOPSY Laboratory for Distributed Systems, Wiesbaden, Germany
Industry: Research
Development of a content management system for the homepage of the laboratory
- Sep 2007 - May 2008
- Alternative Service Main-Kinzig Hospital, Gelnhausen, Germany
Industry: Management of Information Systems
IT Support and Administration tasks in a hospital
Human Languages
- German
- C2, Native Speaker
- English
- C1, 13 years
- Mandarin Chinese
- B2 (汉语水平考试 HSK Level 4 Standard Chinese language proficiency Test (2013)), Score: 186/300
- French
- B1, 5 years
- Japanese
- A1, 0.5years
Technical Experience
Programming Languages
- Proficient Knowledge:
- Java 1.4-9
- Python2 and Python3
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- JSP/JSF
- Intermediate Knowledge:
- C, C++, C#
- Scala
- Bash Script
- PHP
- VB.NET
- Scalate
- Basic Knowledge:
- MIPS Assembly/x86 Assembly
- Haskell
- Matlab
- Powershell
- Markup Languages:
-
HTML5,GML,GraphML,KML,VRML,XML,XSD,XSLT
- Markdown
- LaTeX, XeTeX, BibTeX
- Query Languages:
-
Cypher
- SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- SPARQL, GeoSPARQL
- Technologies and Software:
-
Windows 95-10, Linux (CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu)
- Windows Domain Administrator Tools (GPO, Active Directory, WSUS)
- Microsoft Office 1998-2016, LibreOffice
- ArcGIS, QGIS, FME
- Git, SVN, CVS
- Maven, Gradle
- Software Development:
-
Scrum
- V-Modell
Awards
- Sep 2023
- GCH 2023 Best Paper Award
- Nov 2020
- ISWC Best Student Paper Award
- Oct 2020
- FIG Paper Of the Month
- Apr 2017
- WebIST Best Student Paper Award
- Jul 2016
- Valedictorian Award (Jahrgangsbester) Computer Science Master Of Science
- Mar 2015
- DARIAH-DE Digital Humanities Award 2015
- Apr 2013
- Nomination to take part in the Summer University of Namibia 2013
- Jun 2012
- Valedictorian Award (Jahrgangsbester) Computer Science Bachelor Of Science
- Jan 2011
- PROMOS-Scholarship for studying abroad
Peer Reviewing for Conferences and Journals
Volunteer Work
- Oct 2018
- Data Provider and Workshop Leader at Coding Da Vinci Rhein Main 2018
- Sep 2017
- Election official at the Federal Election 2017 in Germany
- Sep 2017
- Science Market Mainz
- Jun 2014
- Night of Science Frankfurt
- Since 2009
- OpenStreetMap Contributor
Soft Skills
- Dez 2017
- Media is changing universities (Copyright in Teaching) (Hochschule Mainz Qualifizierungskolleg)
- Nov 2017
- Case Studies in Teaching (Hochschule Mainz Qualifizierungskolleg)
- Nov 2016
- Public Speaking in Academics (Atlantic Language Dublin) Erasmus Plus Staff Training Mobility
- Mar 2013
- Innovationmanagement (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Feb 2013
- Careermanagement and Selfcoaching (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Dez 2012
- Analysing compliance strategies of companies (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Sep 2012
- Learning Strategies (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Aug 2012
- Intercultural Competence (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Aug 2012
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Aug 2012
- Selfpresentation (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- May 2012
- Time Management Skills (Soft Skills Uni Frankfurt)
- Nov 2007
- How to convince others (VHS Gelnhausen)
- Oct 2007
- Rhetorical Skills Basic Course (VHS Gelnhausen)
Side Projects
- 2017
- AdventOfCode - Solutions to some of the Advent Of Code Challenges (Java)
- 2017
- SemanticDictionary - Creation of a Semantic Dictionary for Ancient Languages (RDF)
- 2016
- CuneiPainter - An app to paint cuneiform characters on your Android phone (Java)
- 2015 - 2018
- tuxbot - Plugins for the Sopel chatbot (Python)
- 2014 - 2017
- webime - Port of an input method engine in JavaScript to support Akkadian Cuneiform (JavaScript, HTML)
- 2013
- Mafia Manager - An xml dataformat to formalize the creation of characters for the popular game Mafia (XML)
Student projects:
- 2014
- POSTagger - POSTagger for Ancient (cuneiform) languages (Java)
- 2010
- KochplattformWeb - Inverse recipe search engine as a web application (Scala, Scalate)
- 2010
- J2Latex - Java to LaTeX Compiler (JavaCC)
- 2009
- Quiz - Quiz Game with three different question types (C++)
- 2009
- Timtris - Tetris Game with Dr. Mario mod (Java)
- 2008
- ConnectFour - ConnectFour game for the console (C)
Member of Organisations/Committees
- Sep 2019 -
Sep 2020 - Member of the Working Group of Architecture, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany
- Since Apr 2019
- Participant in OGC Geosemantics DWG Special Interest Group
Miscellaneous
Driving Licenses
- Aug 2006
- European Motorbike Driving License, Class: A
- Apr 2006
- European Trailer Driving License, Class: BE
- Nov 2005
- European Car Driving License, Class: B
- Interests
- Travelling, Swimming, Biking
Contact Information
- Social Media
- Publications | ORCID profile | Google Scholar profile
timo.homburg@hs-mainz.de Wiesbaden Germany