Torsten Schaub received his diploma and dissertation in informatics in 1990 and 1992, respectively, from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and his habilitation in informatics in 1995 from the University of Rennes I, France. From 1990 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Technical University at Darmstadt. From 1993 to 1995, he was a research associate at IRISA/INRIA at Rennes. In 1995 he became University Professor at the University of Angers. Since 1997, he is University Professor for knowledge processing and information systems at the University of Potsdam. From 2014 to 2019, Torsten Schaub held an Inria International Chair at Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique. Torsten Schaub has become a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence EurAI in 2012. From 2014 to 2019 he served as President of the Association of Logic Programming and was program (co-)chair of LPNMR'09, ICLP'10, ECAI'14, and upcoming KR'25. The research interests of Torsten Schaub range from the theoretic foundations to the practical implementation of reasoning from incomplete, inconsistent, and evolving information. His particular research focus lies on Answer set programming and materializes at potassco.org, the home of the open source project Potassco bundling software for Answer Set Programming developed at the University of Potsdam. Last but not least, Torsten Schaub is managing and scientific director at Potassco Solutions GmbH.
I am supporting the CAIRNE initiative to support AI research in Europe!
For contacting me, consult my Information Page or send email to torsten(at)cs.uni-potsdam.de .
Research
- Publications (or visit the Computer Science Bibliography Server DBLP or Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar)
- Potassco, the Potsdam Answer Set Solving Collection, bundling tools for Answer Set Programming developed at the University of Potsdam (see also its Twitter and Facebook page!)
- Book: The Automation of Reasoning with Incomplete Information
- Book: Inconsistency Tolerance (with Leopoldo Bertossi and Anthony Hunter)
- Book: Answer Set Solving in Practice (with Martin Gebser, Roland Kaminski, and Benjamin Kaufmann)
- AI Magazine: Special Issue on Answer set programming
- KI Magazine: Special Issue on Answer set programming
Teaching
- Courses
- Moodle
- Teaching Answer Set Programming (an online course)
- International MSc program Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning and Reasoning (@UP in English or German; Facebook; Contact)
- Book: Wissensrepräsentation und Inferenz (in German; with Wolfgang Bibel and Steffen Hölldobler)
Transfer
- Spin-off company: Potassco Solutions GmbH
Anything else?
- Join me in visiting Rüsselsheim, Darmstadt, Rennes, Angers, Potsdam, and Werder (in historical order) !
- The comments.sty latex style!
- ... and even profs do it !
- Our lovely labs!
- An appointment slot (This is a beta test :))
