Prof. Jana Koehler, Hochschule Luzern
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Prof. Jana Koehler

Nominated by

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • AcademiaNet member since 04.06.2014
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Hochschule Luzern


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Information and Communication Technologies


Field

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)



Area of specialisation

Artificial intelligence & business process management (in particular, redesign and automation of flexible processes)



Research interests

  • Intelligent processes and control systems



Distinctions and Awards

  • Appointment to Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2012

  • Board for Interdisciplinary Projects (FAID external member)

  • Nomination for Swiss National Research Council by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 2011

  • Appointment to IBM Research Council of Sages, 2010

  • IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award for Richer Flow Models and Improved Lifecyle Support for WebSphere Business Process Management Suite, 2009

  • Service Science and Services Computing PICs Best Paper Award for the BPM 2008 best paper, 2009

  • IBM Research Accomplishment for Architectural Decision Knowledge Accelerator and Wiki, 2009

  • Honourable Mention for 18th ICAPS Influential Paper Award, 2009

  • Honourable Mention for 18th ICAPS Influential Paper Award 2008 for the paper Extending Planning Graphs to an ADL Subset by J. Koehler et al., published in ECP 1997

  • Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management for the paper The Refined Process Structure Tree by J. Vanhatalo, H. Voelzer, J. Koehler, 2008

  • Entry in Marquis Who is Who in Science and Engineering and Marquis Who is Who in the World, 2008

  • IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award for Model-Driven Business Transformation, 2007

  • IBM Cash & Stock Equity Award for technical and managerial leadership, 2006

  • IBM Research Division Technical Group Award for Model-Driven Business Transformation, 2006

  • KI/UI-98 Exhibition Award for the IPP planning system as the best academic software prototype, 1998

  • IPP Planner declared Winner of the ADL track in the First International Planning Systems Competition

  • Dissertational Award from the Association of the AI Institutes of Germany, 1995

  • Digital Equipment Prize 1994 at the 11th European Conference on AI for the paper

    Correct Modification of Complex Plans, 1994

  • Humboldt University Award for one of the best master theses of 1988

  • Goethe Scholarship from the City of Berlin, 1986

Short-list placements/offers of professorships

  • 3rd place, Full Professor of Information Systems, TU Munich, 6/2010

  • 1st place, Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen, 2/2009

  • 1st place, Full Professor of Technical Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2/2003

  • 1st place, Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence, TU Berlin, 2/2003

  • 2nd place, Associate Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 6/1999



Interested in

  • Lectures, Management position, Membership in scientific bodies, Refereeing


Languages

English, French, German



Doctorate

  • 1994: Case-Based Planning


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 1996: Intelligent Planning Systems




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1983 – 1989
    Studied informatics at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; doctorate 1994

  • 1990 – 1992
    Assistant at Saarland University, Germany

  • 1992 – 1995
    Worked at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

  • 1995 – 1996
    Worked at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, USA

  • 1996 – 1999
    Senior assistant, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  • 1999 – 2001
    Project manager at the Schindler Group, Switzerland

  • 2001 – 2010
    Researcher and manager at IBM Research, Switzerland

  • Since 2010
    Professor of informatics at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

Selected publications

Papers with at least 100 citations

  • B Srivastava, J Koehler: Web service composition-current solutions and open problems 2003 (>600)

  • J Koehler, B Nebel, J Hoffmann, Y Dimopoulos: Extending planning graphs to an ADL subset 1997 (>350)

  • B Nebel, J Koehler: Plan reuse versus plan generation: A theoretical and empirical analysis 1995 (>180)

  • Y Dimopoulos, B Nebel, J Koehler: Encoding planning problems in nonmonotonic logic programs 1997 (>180)

  • J Koehler: Planning under Resource Constraints 1998 (>140)

  • J Vanhatalo, H Völzer, J Koehler: The refined process structure tree 2009 (>135)

  • T Gardner, C Griffin, J Koehler, R Hauser: A review of OMG MOF 2.0 Query/Views/Transformations Submissions and Recommendations towards the final Standard 2003 (>130)

  • J Hoffmann, J Koehler: On reasonable and forced goal orderings and their use in an agenda-driven planning algorithm 2011 (>130)

  • B Nebel, Y Dimopoulos, J Koehler: Ignoring irrelevant facts and operators in plan generation 1997 (>120)

  • J Vanhatalo, H Völzer, J Koehler: The refined process structure tree 2008 (>110)


Selected projects

  • Schindler Destination Control (http://www.theporttechnology.com/)

  • BPMN 2.0 Standard (http://www.omg.org/bpmn/)

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Swiss Informatics Society (SI), GI (German computer science society), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) external member of the Interdisciplinary Research Committee

Additional qualifications

  • Sailing instructor (catamarans, VDWS licence)


Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Soft Skills

  • Management training IBM


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