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Gabriele Kotsis
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Gabriele Kotsis in 2014
Born (1967-10-29) 29 October 1967 (age 57)
Vienna, Austria
Citizenship Austrian
Alma mater University of Vienna (MSc, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Johannes Kepler University Linz
Thesis Workload Modeling for Parallel Processing (1995)
Doctoral advisor Günter Haring

Gabriele Kotsis, born on October 29, 1967, in Vienna, Austria, is a brilliant computer scientist. She is a full professor of computer science at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. There, she leads the Department of Telecommunication and the Cooperative Information Systems division.

Professor Kotsis also served as the vice-rector for Research and the Advancement of Women at JKU. She was a long-time leader of the Research Policy Committee for Universities Austria. She is also a respected member and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Early Life and Education

Gabriele Kotsis studied business informatics at the University of Vienna from 1986 to 1991. She earned her master's degree with honors. Later, she completed her doctoral studies in social and economic sciences from 1992 to 1995, also at the University of Vienna. She graduated with distinction both times.

In 2000, she completed her "habilitation" in Informatics at the University of Vienna. This is a special qualification needed to become a full professor in some European countries. Her master's thesis, which was about how computers connect and send information, won an award from the Austrian Computer Society. Her PhD paper, "Workload Modeling for Parallel Processing," received the famous Heinz Zemanek Award in 1996.

Career and Research

Even while working on her PhD, Gabriele Kotsis started her career at the University of Vienna. She worked as a university assistant from 1991 to 2001. She also taught as a guest professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2001 to 2002.

In 2002, she was a guest professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. She also taught at JKU before becoming a full professor of informatics there. In the same year, she helped start a group for computer science professors within the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). She was the first female president of the OCG from 2003 to 2007. She also helps with the OCG Book Series and the Fem-IT group, which supports women in IT.

From 2007 to 2015, she was the vice-rector for Research at JKU. In this role, she helped create research plans and worked with national and international groups. She also helped build partnerships with other research organizations and businesses.

Since 2016, Professor Kotsis has represented JKU in the ASEA-UNINET. This network helps universities in Europe and Southeast Asia work together on research. Her active involvement led to her being elected president of ASEA-UNINET from February 2019 to July 2020.

Kotsis is a founding member of the ACM Europe Council, serving from 2008 to 2016. In 2014, she became an ACM Distinguished Member. This was for her important work on understanding how parallel and distributed computer systems handle tasks. It was also for helping to start ACM Europe. In 2016, she received an award for her work on the ACM WomEncourage conference series. She was an elected Member-at-Large of the ACM council starting in 2016. She served as the President of ACM from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2022.

She is also a member of the Austrian Center for Parallel Computation (ACPC) and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG).

Awards and Recognitions

Gabriele Kotsis has received many awards for her contributions to computer science:

  • 2020 – ACM President
  • 2016 – Member of the Board of Trustees, University of Klagenfurt
  • 2016 – ACM Recognition of Service Award, for her work with ACM and chairing WomEncourage 2016
  • 2016 – IFIP EGOV-ePart 2016 Meritorious Paper Award, for her paper on understanding politics in parliamentary democracy
  • 2015 – Emerald Highly Commended Paper Award, from the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications
  • 2014 – ACM Distinguished Scientist
  • 2013 – iiWAS Best Short Paper Award
  • 2009 – iiWAS Decennial Award, for her great scientific and organizational work for the @WAS organization and the iiWAS and MoMM conferences
  • 2006 (September) – Expert of the Month, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
  • 2000 – OPNET / Mil3 Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Application and Network Performance
  • 1996 – Heinz Zemanek-Preis, Austrian Computer Society Award for excellent computer science publications
  • 1992 – OCG-Förderpreis, Austrian Computer Society Award for Diploma Theses

Key Publications

Here are some of her important publications:

  • Al Zubaidi-Polli, Anna M.; Anderst-Kotsis, Gabriele (2018), "Conceptual Design of a hybrid Participatory IT supporting in-situ and ex-situ collaborative text authoring,"  iiWAS, ACM, ISBN: 978-14503-6479-9, 243–252
  • Steinbauer, Matthias; Anderst-Kotsis, Gabriele (2016), "DynamoGraph: extending the Pregel paradigm for large-scale temporal graph processing", in International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), 7 (2), Inderscience, 141–151, ISSN 1741-847X.
  • Bachmayer, Sabine; Lugmayr, Artur; Kotsis, Gabriele (2010), "Convergence of collaborative web approaches and interactive TV program formats", International Journal of Web Information Systems, 6 (1), pp. 74–94.
  • Kotsis, Gabriele; Khalil-Ibrahim, Ismail (2008), "The Web Goes Mobile: Can We Keep the Pace?", Proceedings CISIS 2008 (The Second Int. Conf. on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 4–7 March 2008, Barcelona, Spain), IEEE Computer Society, 240–246, ISBN: 0-76953109-1
  • van der Heijden, Hans; Kotsis, Gabriele; Kronsteiner, Reinhard (July 2005), "Mobile recommendation systems for decision making‚ on the go". In International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05) (pp. 137–143). IEEE.
  • Ibrahim, Ismail K.; Kronsteiner, Reinhard; Kotsis, Gabriele (2005), "A semantic solution for data integration in mixed sensor networks", Computer Communications, 28 (3), 1564–1574.
  • Hlavacs, Helmut; Hotop, Ewald; Kotsis, Gabriele (2000), "Workload Generation in OPNET by User Behaviour Modelling", OPNETWORK 2000, Awarded with the Distinguished Paper Award
  • Kotsis, Gabriele; Kacsuk, Peter (2000), "Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Instruction Parallelism to Cluster Computing", DAPSYS2000, Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 567, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0-7923-7892-X
  • Bullnheimer, Bernd; Kotsis, Gabriele; Strauß, Christine (1998), "Parallelization Strategies for the Ant System", In: De Leone R., Murli A., Pardalos P.M., Toraldo G. (eds) High Performance Algorithms and Software in Nonlinear Optimization. Applied Optimization, 24, Springer, Boston, MA
  • Kotsis, Gabriele; Krithivasan, Kamala; Raghavan Serugudi (1997), "Generative Workload Models of Internet Traffic", Proceedings of the ICICS Conference, 1, 152–156, Singapore, IEEE
  • A. Ferscha, G. Kotsis (1991) Eliminating Routing Overheads in Neural Network Simulation Using Chordal Ring Interconnection Topologies, Proc. of the Neuro-Nîmes 91, 4th Int. Conf. on Neural Networks and their Applications, 625–638

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