Erich Schuberts Homepage
About me…
I am professor of data mining at the Technical University of Dortmund.
I was a research and teaching assistant (PostDoc) at the
Heidelberg University, in the
Database Systems Group.
I did my PhD at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität München), more precisely at the
Research and teaching unit
for database and information systems.
My PhD thesis had the topic:
“Generalized and Efficient Outlier Detection for Spatial, Temporal, and High-Dimensional Data Mining”.
A list of my publications can be found on my
university homepage.
What is “Vitavonni”?
Vitavonni, when read backwards, is “innovativ” —
this is what I care about: being innovative, doing something crazy,
something new, something different – but also something
useful, to improve something. It’s not about just being different,
but about being better.
Creativity, innovation, knowledge, information — thats what is giving me a kick, what is driving me forward. I’m always on the run for new things, deeper understanding and new insights.
I don’t like following existing tracks, but there is no need to repeat the mistakes of others either, but should try to learn from them and do things better. Therefore I don’t blindly trust existing knowledge, but I’ll willingly accept it as the best guess and working hypothesis often to be followed until there is some reason to doubt.