Alexander Krumpholz

Research Engineer

Contact

CSIRO ICT Centre
Computer Science and Information Technology Building (Building 108)
North Road, Australian National University,
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Postal address:
GPO Box 664
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia

Tel: 61 2 6216 7073
Email

Science Area

• Information Retrieval

Biography

Alexander Krumpholz obtained a Diplom-Ingenieur in Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria in 2000. He has worked in a range of areas from database application design to information retrieval research, and consulted in workflow modelling. While in Maryland, USA, he developed a highly optimized web-based database application for GovCon.com.

In 2001 he joined CSIRO CMIS (Mathematical and Information Sciences) located in Carlton/Melbourne. Alex worked in the Technologies for Electronic Documents group building Knowledge Portals and researching with Panoptic, CSIRO's Information Retrieval engine.

From 2003 to 2005 Alex was based in Perth working in a distributed team that developed a collaborative surgical training system for microscope surgery of the ear. This system was based on the CSIRO Haptic Workbench technology. It combined the simulated realism of immersive haptics (force-feedback interaction technology) with the real-time remotely shared presence of the instructor and the student.

In 2006 Alexander joined Prof. David Hawking's Enterprise Search Team, focussing on Information Retrieval and Delivery of Semi-Structured Data, in particular the exploitation of inherent structure to increase retrieval quality.

Recent research includes the retrieval of medical literature matching a patient's case.

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