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Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann HellwagnerHead of Institute
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Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu ProdanFull Professor
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Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Klaus SchöffmannAssociate Professor
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Assoc. Prof. DI Dr. Christian TimmererAssociate Professor
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Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Mathias LuxAssociate Professor
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Dr. Dragi Kimovski, MScPostdoctoral Assistant
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Dr. Anatoliy ZabrovskiyPostdoctoral Researcher
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Dr. Farzad TashtarianPostdoctoral Researcher
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Dr. Prateek AgrawalPostdoctoral Researcher
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Univ.-Ass. Samira Hayat MSc.Project Assistant
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Natalia Sokolova, MScProject Assistant
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DI Josef HammerUniversity Assistant
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DI Andreas LeibetsederProject Assistant
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Negin Ghamsarian, MScProject Assistant
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Zahra Najafabadi Samani, MScProject Assistant
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Vladislav Kashanskii, MScProject Assistant
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Nishant Saurabh, MScProject Assistant
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Roland Mathá, MScProject Assistant
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Narges Mehran, MScUniversity Assistant
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Mohammad GhanbariEmeritus Professor
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Vignesh V Menon, MSc.Project Assistant
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Babak Taraghi MSc.Project Assistant
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Alireza Erfanian, MScProject Assistant
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Reza Farahani, MScProject Assistant
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Hadi Amirpourazarian, MScProject Assistant
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Ekrem Cetinkaya, MScProject Assistant
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Minh Nguyen, MScProject Assistant
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Jesus Aguilar, MScProject Assistant
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DI Fabian SchoberProject Assistant
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Daniela MeinhardtStudent Research Assistant
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Nina StillerSecretary
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Margit Letter, BASecretary
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Rudolf MessnerSystem Administrator
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Mag. Dr. Mario TaschwerSystem Administrator
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Martina SteinbacherSecretary
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Nicolas BossiResearch Assistant
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Selina IsakStudent Research Assistant
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Manuel Herold, BSc.Student Research Assistant
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Bogdan Mihai, BSc.Student Research Assistant
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Alexander Lercher, BSc.Student Research Assistant
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Shivi VatsStudent Research Assistant
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Markus FoxStudent Research Assistant
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David LangmeierStudent Assistant
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Luca BraunStudent Research Assitant
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Daniela StefanicsStudent Assistant
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Manuel SeywaldStudent Research Assistant

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann Hellwagner
Head of Institute
Office hours
MO 15:00-16:00
Room
S.2.60
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993612
Short CV
Office hours
Room
S.2.62
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993616

Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Klaus Schöffmann
Associate Professor
Office hours
On appointment
Room
S.2.58
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993620

Assoc. Prof. DI Dr. Christian Timmerer
Associate Professor
Office hours
MO 15:00-16:00
Room
S.2.53
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993621
Short CV

Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Mathias Lux
Associate Professor
Office hours
on appointment by e-mail
Room
S.2.59
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993615
Short CV
He is working on user intentions in multimedia retrieval and production and emergent semantics in social multimedia computing. In his scientific career he has (co-) authored more than 60 scientific publications, has served in multiple program committees and reviewer of international conferences, journals and magazines, and has organized several scientific events. He is also well known for managing the development of the award winning and popular open source tools Caliph & Emir and LIRe (http://www.semanticmetadata.net/) for multimedia information retrieval. Dr. Mathias Lux received his M.S. in Mathematics 2004 and his Ph.D. in Telematics 2006 from Graz University of Technology, both with distinction. He worked in industry on web-based applications, then as a junior researcher at a research center for knowledge-based applications. He was research and teaching assistant at the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) of Graz University of Technology and in 2006 he started working in a post doc position at Klagenfurt University, at the Institute for Information Technology.
Teaching
Computer Games, Multimedia Information Systems, Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
Projects
Automatisierte Generierung von Unternehmenslogos (FFG), Entwicklung einer Applikation für Mobiltelefone (FFG), CodeMM, Echtzeitnahe multimediale Visualisierung bei Simulationen an Fahrzeugprüfständen (FFG), UniKluHiStories, SOMA I.T., SOMA, Code-MM, Konzeptuelle und prototypische Entwicklung verschiedener Spielvarianten (FFG)
Room
S.2.51
Phone
Website
Projects
Aspide, AtomicFOG

Dr. Anatoliy Zabrovskiy
Postdoctoral Researcher
Room
S.2.55
Phone
anatoliy.zabrovskiy@itec.aau.at
Projects
PROMETHEUS, DASHEval

Dr. Farzad Tashtarian
Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Prateek Agrawal
Postdoctoral Researcher

Univ.-Ass. Samira Hayat MSc.
Project Assistant
Room
B.02.106
Projects
cDronez

Natalia Sokolova, MSc
Project Assistant

DI Josef Hammer
University Assistant

DI Andreas Leibetseder
Project Assistant

Negin Ghamsarian, MSc
Project Assistant

Zahra Najafabadi Samani, MSc
Project Assistant
Room
S.2.55
Website
Projects
ARTICONF

Vladislav Kashanskii, MSc
Project Assistant
Room
S.2.55
Phone
Room
S.1.41
Phone
Website
Projects
Articonf
Room
S.1.41
Phone
Website
Projects
Apollo, Aspide, Adapt
Room
S.2.50
Phone
Website
Projects

Mohammad Ghanbari
Emeritus Professor
Projects
ATHENA

Vignesh V Menon, MSc.
Project Assistant
Projects
ATHENA

Babak Taraghi MSc.
Project Assistant

Alireza Erfanian, MSc
Project Assistant

Reza Farahani, MSc
Project Assistant

Hadi Amirpourazarian, MSc
Project Assistant

Ekrem Cetinkaya, MSc
Project Assistant

Minh Nguyen, MSc
Project Assistant

Jesus Aguilar, MSc
Project Assistant

DI Fabian Schober
Project Assistant

Daniela Meinhardt
Student Research Assistant

Nina Stiller
Secretary

Margit Letter, BA
Secretary
Room
S.2.61
Phone
Fax
+43 (0)463 2700 993602
Short CV
Margit Letter (Pertl) graduated from the business school in 1995. After working in the hotel business for several years she switched to the public health sector and worked in various hospitals in Carinthia and Styria as administration secretary.
In 2006 she started with the studies of healthcare management. One semester she spent abroad at the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven in Belgium and finished 2009 (bachelor of arts in business). The last two years she managed the office in a center for complementary medicine.

Rudolf Messner
System Administrator

Mag. Dr. Mario Taschwer
System Administrator
Room
S.2.52
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993619
Short CV
Mario Taschwer completed his master´s degree in mathematics and physics at Vienna University in 1996. Between 1998 and 2001 he worked as a university assistant for the System Security research group at Klagenfurt University´s Institute of Applied Informatics. After a year of working as a free RTLinux consultant and developer for FSMLabs Inc. in Austria, he was employed by Quant-X GmbH, St. Veit/Glan, as an HPC (High Performance Computing) consultant in 2002. Since 2003 he has been responsible for managing the server systems and networking infrastructure at ITEC, where he also assists in teaching and research. In 2017, he received a PhD degree in computer science from Klagenfurt University, enabling him to intensify his collaboration with ITEC researchers.
Teaching
Computer Organization, Compiler Construction
Office hours
Monday 9 – 10 am
Projects
OVID

Martina Steinbacher
Secretary
Room
S.2.61
Phone
Fax
+43 463 2700 993603
Short CV
Martina Steinbacher graduated from the business school Feldkirchen in 1996. In the years following she served as the front-office-manager in a hotel. During winter seasons she was responsible for the administration of a ski school and also worked as a skiing instructor. She joined the Distributed Multimedia Systems group in 2001 and since then has handled the various administrative activities of the research group and of ITEC. In particular, she is in charge of project management, conference organization and graphic design activities.

Nicolas Bossi
Research Assistant

Selina Isak
Student Research Assistant

Manuel Herold, BSc.
Student Research Assistant
Projects
ARTICONF

Bogdan Mihai, BSc.
Student Research Assistant

Alexander Lercher, BSc.
Student Research Assistant

Shivi Vats
Student Research Assistant

Markus Fox
Student Research Assistant

David Langmeier
Student Assistant

Luca Braun
Student Research Assitant

Daniela Stefanics
Student Assistant
Room
S.2.49

Manuel Seywald
Student Research Assistant