Alexander Paar

Alexander Paar

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Professor of Computer Science at Berufsakademie Sachsen, Studienakademie Leipzig

  • Education

    • Technische Universität Clausthal

      1997 - 1999
      Vordiplom Computer Science
    • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

      1999 - 2002
      Diplom-Informatiker Computer Science

      Microsoft Official Curriculum. Completed the requirements to be recognized as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition. Received the second place team award for the project “The Universal BTRC Remote Control System”.Outstanding Student Scholarship. Received a two-year scholarship from the “Industrielles Stipendienprogramm des FFI (Freundeskreis der Fakultät für Informatik) und der Fakultät für Informatik” granted by IBM Global… Show more Microsoft Official Curriculum. Completed the requirements to be recognized as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition. Received the second place team award for the project “The Universal BTRC Remote Control System”.Outstanding Student Scholarship. Received a two-year scholarship from the “Industrielles Stipendienprogramm des FFI (Freundeskreis der Fakultät für Informatik) und der Fakultät für Informatik” granted by IBM Global Services, which included mentoring by an IBM senior employee and a monthly grant of €500. Show less

    • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

      2002 - 2009
      Dr.-Ing. Computer Science summa cum laude

      ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2008). Received a silver and a bronze medal for coaching teams “KAmaeleon” and “Keine Ahnung”.ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2004). Received the thirteenth place team award for coaching team “BiK”.Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages And Applications (OOPSLA 2004). Selected to be a Student Volunteer on the Gold Plan.ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2003)… Show more ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2008). Received a silver and a bronze medal for coaching teams “KAmaeleon” and “Keine Ahnung”.ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2004). Received the thirteenth place team award for coaching team “BiK”.Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages And Applications (OOPSLA 2004). Selected to be a Student Volunteer on the Gold Plan.ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2003). Received the eighth place team award for coaching team “BiK”.Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages And Applications (OOPSLA 2003). Selected to be a Student Volunteer on the Silver Plan. Show less

    • UC Irvine

      2001 - 2002
      Computer Science

      Contributed to the MorphoSys research project. Extended the MorphoSys reconfigurable SIMD computer architecture with predicated instructions. Devised and implemented a component-oriented simulator of the MorphoSys HW/SW co-design that has been utilized by several research group members in course of the following years.

  • Experience

    • Universität Karlsruhe (TH)

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2009
      Research Assistant

      Contributed as a doctoral student to the European CORDIS FP6 research project “Computers in the Human Interaction Loop”.Initiated and conducted an “ACM ICPC” programming lab (2005-2008).Conducted graduate seminars on software and ontology engineering topics.Assisted in teaching a graduate software engineering course (instructed graduate students and created materials for lectures and for final exams).Devised problem sets and judged submissions to the annual nationwide “informatiCup” programming contest of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (2005-present). Show less

    • Plath GmbH

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
      Software Architect

      Contributed to the international EDA-funded MEDUSA research project and product development.Revised and implemented the ModoCom programming language for the detection of communication models in large-scale radio emission databases. Most used tools include the ANTLR parser generator, Allegro Common LISP, and the Screamer constraint programming library.Designed and implemented a parser for the Terse RDF Triple Language.Surveyed the state of the art of spatiotemporal data on the Semantic Web. Show less

    • University of Pretoria

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
      Post-doctoral Research Fellow

      Conducted the ZHILANG research project.Integrated the SPARQL RDF query language into a research programming language.Developed SPARQL graph pattern processing with MapReduce frameworks.

    • TWT GmbH

      Jan 2011 - Jan 2014
      Software Architect

      Software development and project management for the automotive industry, applied research, and scientific transfer.

    • TWT GmbH

      Feb 2014 - Jan 2019
      • Business Unit Manager Digital Transformation

        Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
      • Member of the Executive Board, Personnel Manager

        Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
      • Head of Data Analytics & Learning, Head of Enterprise Data Solutions

        Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
      • Head of Data Management, Portals & Processes

        Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
      • Head of Enterprise Software & Information Systems

        Feb 2014 - Dec 2014
    • Duale Hochschule Schleswig-Holstein (DHSH)

      Sept 2019 - Mar 2024
      Professor of Computer Science
    • Berufsakademie Sachsen

      Apr 2024 - now
      Professor of Computer Science
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      Professor an einer Fachhochschule Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Schleswig-Holstein Mar 2020
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      Dr.-Ing. Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Jul 2009
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      ACM ICPC SWERC Silver & Bronze Medal Association for Computing Machinery 2008 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2008). Received a silver and a bronze medal for coaching teams "KAmaeleon" and "Keine Ahnung".
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      ACM ICPC SWERC Eighth Place Team Award Association for Computing Machinery 2003 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (SWERC 2003). Received the eighth place team award for coaching team "BiK".
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      IEEE CSIDC Second Place Team Award IEEE Computer Society 2001 IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition (June 2001). Received the second place team award for the project "The Universal BTRC Remote Control System".
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      Microsoft Certified Trainer Microsoft Corporation 2001 Microsoft Official Curriculum (July 2001). Completed the requirements to be recognized as a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
    • Awarded to Alexander Paar
      Outstanding Student Scholarship IBM Global Services 2000 Outstanding Student Scholarship (July 2000 - June 2002). Received a two-year scholarship from the "Industrielles Stipendienprogramm des FFI (Freundeskreis der Fakultät für Informatik) und der Fakultät für Informatik" granted by IBM Global Services, which included mentoring by an IBM senior employee and a monthly grant of €500.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Spokesman & supervisor of the InformatiCup programming contest

      Issued by German Informatics Society on Mar 2005
      German Informatics SocietyAssociated with Alexander Paar