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Stefan Rüger is a Professor of Knowledge Media at the
Knowledge Media Institute
of
The Open University,
a Honorary Professor (2009-2014) at the
Department of Computer Science,
University of Waikato, and used to
be a Visiting Principal Research Fellow (2006-2009) at the
Department of Computing,
Imperial College
London. He holds a diploma in Theoretical Physics (equiv to MSc) and
received his PhD in the field of computing for his work on the theory of
artificial neural networks. Between 1999 and 2004 he held a prestigious
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowhip at Imperial College London, where he
carved out his academic career from PostDoc (1997) to Reader in Multimedia
and Information Systems (2005). His research has evolved over the years
from theory of artificial neural networks over data mining and knowledge
management to applications in multimedia search engines. At the Knowledge Media Institute
he is responsible for the
Multimedia and
Information Systems area; he chairs the
UK Multimedia Knowledge Management research network and
was Principal Investigator for The Open University in the European funded
Pharos
project (2007-2009) amongst other projects.
Research Interests
- Multimedia and Information Systems
- Video, image and music search engines
- Information Retrieval & Text Mining
- Clustering & Classification
- Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
- Machine Learning
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