Gerald Berger

  • PhD student at TU Wien funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Favoritenstraße 9-11
  • 1040 Wien
  • Austria
  • Room: HE 03 36
  • Phone: +43 (1) 58801 – 740016
  • Email: gberger [at] dbai [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at

Research Interests

  • Database Theory, Knowledge Representation, Logic in Computer Science

Current Position

  • I am a PhD student at TU Wien funded by a PhD fellowship awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. My advisor is Prof. Georg Gottlob. Prior to my doctoral fellowship, I held positions as university assistant and lecturer at TU Wien. Currently, I am the student speaker of our doctoral program.

Education

  • MSc in Computer Science, TU Wien. Thesis: Provability Interpretations of a Many-Sorted Polymodal Logic
  • BSc in Computer Science, TU Wien.

Publications

  1. Gerald Berger, Andreas Pieris: Ontology-Mediated Queries Distributing over Components. IJCAI 2016: 943-949
  2. Gerald Berger, Hans Tompits: On Axiomatic Rejection for the Description Logic ALC. KDPD 2013: 65-82

Awards

  • Austria's State Prize for outstanding studies, 2015. Awarded by the Federal Ministry of Science ("Würdigungspreis")
  • PhD Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2015.