Hi, I am

Andreas Emrich

Senior Consultant & Researcher

Work experience

08/2008-German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Institute for Information Systems (IWi) im Saarbrücken

Senior Consultant & Researcher

Acquisition, Execution und Management of research and industri-

al projects in the areas of

• Business Process Management (BPM), esp. Process Mining
• Big Data & Recommender Systems
• Deep Learning & Knowledge Graphs
• Mobile and Ambient Assistance Systems
• Logistics
• Connected living
• Financial services
• Production

Research projects

09/2020-Racket,BMBF

• Acquisition & Management
•  Development of algorithms and system approaches for learning rare and known errors in production
• Application in a cyber-physical digital twin environment of production
• Development of process-related algorithms for rare and unknown class learning

04/2016-Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum & Mittelstand Digital Zentrum Kaiserslautern, BMWi

• Acquisition & Management of topic area „Business models“

•  Knowledge Transfer & Network Support for the topics AI, Industry 4.0 and Business Models for SMEs in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
• Founder and Leader of the National Work Group „Business Models“ spanning 28 competence centers all over Germany

06/2021 – 11/2023-ErgoBest, BMBF

•  Acquisition & Management
• Development of a sensor-based approach for the detection and prognosis of body malpostures in production and quality control
• Development of process mining algorithms for sensor data abstraction for process data, semi-supervised online labelling and best practice extraction
• Evaluation in laboratory trials and field tests at manufacturer Bosch

03/2021 – 02/2023-SensoBike, BMWi

• Acquisition & Management
•  Development of a sensor-based approach to detect and forecast malpostures of the knee in post-rehabilitation
•  Development of recommender algorithms for training adjustment

04/2019 – 09/2022-AKKORD, BMBF

• Acquisition & Management
• Development of a toolbox for AI based on RapidMiner
• Development of AI algorithms for the data-based analysis of business models

01/2020 – 12/2020-TransferHub, BMWi

• Acquisition & Management
• Conducting a Demand and Feasability study for the creation of an AI-based transformation hub for Germany, that should connect demands and offerings for AI on a national level

01/2020 – 12/2020-Move to 4.0, EIT Manufacturing

• Acquisition & Management
• Development of an AI readiness model for SMEs and startups
• Workshops to help production-based startups to create a technology and business roadmap for AI

01/2018 – 12/2019-DaSoMan, BMBF

• Acquisition & Management
• Privacy-preserving recommender systems

11/2015 – 03/2017-PREFLOW, BMBF

• Management

• Tracking of human work processes with body area networks
•  Assessment of ergonomic malpostures

09/2015 – 08/2017-iPRODICT, BMBF

• Management of a project consortium of 7 partners
• Linking big data analytics, semantic recommender sytems and process mining algorithms
• Analyzing more than 40TB of data from a steel casting plant for error analysis and subsequent process recommendations
• Joined a business delegation of the federal ministry to present the project in Singapore, China and Japan

07/2014 – 09/2015-EXPORT, BMWi

•  Technical Management
•  Development of NLP-based process identification and assignment of emails

02/2012 – 01/2014-Linked Data Analytics (LINDA), BMBF

•  Acquisition & Management
• Development of a Hybrid AI approach to interlink media recommendation approaches with knowledge graphs

02/2012 – 08/2014-MENTORbike, BMBF

• Acquisition & Management
• Development of service-based recommendations for cyclists to adjust their training intensity and training routes

01/2010 – 12/2011-Business 4 High-Performance Computing (B-HiP), MWW

• Acquisition & Management
•  Foundational research fort he application of HPC technology in the domain of BPM

07/2009 – 04/2012-uService, BMBF / ITEA (EU)

• Acquisition & Management
• Development of semantic recommendation mechanisms for mobile service users in the mHealth domain

11/2008 – 2/2010-m:Ciudad - a metropolis of ubiquitous services, FP7 ICT (EU)

• Internal project lead & work package leader
• Development of semantic recommender mechanisms in the tourism domain

08/2008 – 11/2012-SmartTruck, BMWi

• Internal project lead
•  Development of process automation components
•  Quality control & test management lead

Student assistant

10/2003 – 02/2007-Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern

Development of Software and Algorithms for

• Requirements Engineering
• Information Retrieval
• Software Organization
•  Experience Management

Lehrerfahrung

10/2017-Hochschule für Technik & Wirtschaft Saar, Saarbrücken

Lecturer

Lecturer in the courses „Geschäftsprozessmanagement“ (Busi-

ness Process Management) und „E-Business & neue Medien“(„E-Business & new media“)

08/2018-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Lecturer & Seminar Leader

Organization and Moderation of the Bachelor and Master seminars, Lectures about scientific conduct

08/2008 Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Supervisor of student work

Supervision of > 70 internships, software projects, student research projects and bachelor and master theses

09/2016 – 08/2018-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Tutor in „Wirtschaftsinformatik III“

Organization, Tutorials for students regarding enterprise modeling and work organization

04/2014 – 08/2016-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Tutor im Fach Wirtschaftsinformatik I

Organization, Tutorials for students regarding information systems basics and conceptual modeling, tutoring in the online learning platform WINFOLINE

09/2013 – 03/2014-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Lecturer & Tutor in “Advanced Enterprise Systems”

Organization, Tutor and occasional lecturer for enterprise integration patterns

08/2010 – 07/2012-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Tutor in „Enterprise Resource Planning I, II & III“

Organization, Tutorials for students regarding ERP systems with hands-on practices in SAP R/3

10/2011 – 02/201- Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Lecturer in „Enterprise Software-as-a-Service“

Course Design and Lecturing of software-as-a-service concepts with hands-on practices in SAP Business ByDesign

04/2011 – 07/2011-Institute for Information Systems

Universität Hildesheim

Lecturer in „Wirtschaftsinformatik IV“

External Lecturer mainly in ERP systems theory and applications

04/2009 – 07/2010-Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Tutor in „Wirtschaftsinformatik II“

Organization, Tutorials for students regarding conceptual modeling and data modeling, tutoring in the online learning platform WINFOLINE

08/2008 – 03/2009 Institute for Information Systems

Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Tutor im Fach Wirtschaftsinformatik I

Organization, Tutorials for students regarding information systems

basics and conceptual modeling, tutoring in the online learning

platform WINFOLINE

Internships

05/2007 – 07/2007-IBM Deutschland GmbH, Cologne Betriebswirtschaftliches Praktikum im Global Insurance Team

Executive Assistant in the Global Insurance Team in the areas of „Knowledge Management“ and „Financial Operations“

• Conception and Execution of Marketing Studies among the Top40 customers
• Creation, categorization, automation and archiving of documents
•  Consolidation and modularization of the presentations offerings in the areas of „Insurance Application Architecture“, „Insurance Information Warehouse“ and „IBM
• Blueprint for Business Process Automation“

08/2003 – 09/2003-Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering,Kaiserslautern

Technical Internship in the area Experience Management Development of an XML-based editor for requirements management in the IDE Eclipse

03/2003 – 04/2003-Karl Otto Braun KG, Wolfstein

Technical Internship in Electrical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering

Education

10/2002 - 03/2008-Kaiserslautern University of Technology

Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Business Administration and

Engineering)

Studienrichtung Informatik (Computer Science)

with a study focus on

•        User-Centered Design of IT Systems

•        Patent Law

•        Marketing Information Systems

•        Software Engineering

Abschluss: Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.

Final degree: 1.8

04/2002 – 10/2002-Neurological Clinic and Speech Therapy Center, Meisenheim

08/1993 – 03/2002-Staatliches Gymnasium Lauterecken (high school)

Final degree: 1.5

08/1989 – 06/1993-Königsland-Grundschule (elementary school) in Eßweiler / Rothselberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

12/2023-Certification OpenHPI: Knowledge Graphs: Foundations & Applications

07/2023-Certification OpenHPI (Hasso Plattner Institute): ChatGPT

02/2014-Certification as Medical Product Consultant

02/2012-University Course „SAP Business ByDesign“

12/2008-Rhetorics Course in the Lecture „Consulting“, Saarland University

11/2008-Course „Business-Etikette“ (business conduct),Staatskanzlei Saarland

02/2007-Crash Course Rhetorics, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung

10/2006-02/2007-Language Course „Technical English“

10/2005-02/2006-Language Course „Business English“

Skills

• Programming Languages
• Operating Systems
• Software / Algorithms
• Foreign languages(Englisch)