Members
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Dr. Thomas Risse | University Library Frankfurt a.M. | Lead IT Infrastructure |
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Prof. Dr. Ralph Ewerth | Universität Marburg | Lead AI research |
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Sushil Awale | TIB Hannover Universität Marburg | AI Researcher, Multimodal Information Retrieval |
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Omkar Gavali | Universität Marburg | Research Software Engineer, Multimodal Information Retrieval |
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Dr. Christoph Rippe | University Library Frankfurt a.M. | Academic Project Coordinator |
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Thomas Schneider | University Library Frankfurt a.M. | Software Developer, Portal and Data Infrastructure |
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Ratan Sebastian | TIB Hannover | AI Researcher, Metadata Enrichment and Information Retrieval |
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Dr. Aïsha Othman | University Library Frankfurt a.M. | Collection Curator |
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Dr. Anne Schumann Douosson | University Library Frankfurt a.M. | Academic Advisor |
Project Institutions
University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main
With its extensive holdings and collections, the JCS University Library is one of the most important academic libraries in Germany. It combines the functions of a university library with numerous regional responsibilities, acts as an academic library for the city of Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region as well as a principal library within the supra-regional literature and information supply.
Multimodal Modelling and Machine Learning research group, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Prof. Ewerth’s research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Philipps-Universität Marburg was founded in April 2025. It is one of three newly established AI professorships that were created together with the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI). The working group concentrates on the development and improvement of machine learning methods for analyzing images, videos and multimodal information. Another focus is on methods for improving (multimodal) search engines using generative AI models and on interdisciplinary applications.