2024
Top-5 team out of 18 teams--Professional Track in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2024.
Awarded to: Leonie N. Sieger
2024
The award of this status confirms that Michael Röder has demonstrated outstanding academic achievements after his doctorate and experience in teaching.
Awarded to: Michael Röder
2024
International Semantic Web Conference 2024 (Runner-Up for best paper award, research track)
Awarded to: Alexander Becker, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2023
Top-5 team out of 15 teams--Professional Track in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2023.
Awarded to: N'Dah Jean Kouagou
2023
1st out of 1,097 teams in Open Problems Single Cell Perturbations Challenge 2023. The competition was part of NIPS 2023 and hosted on Kaggle. Overall, there were 6,641 registrants with 1,318 active participants. The team N. Jean Kouagou won the first place and presented his solution at NIPS 2023.
Awarded to: N'Dah Jean Kouagou
2022 (award year)
The UPB Science Day is a university-wide research showcase. Presented my PhD research proposal at Science Day 2022 and won the first prize.
Awarded to: Umair Qudus
2020
in the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) (Spotlight paper and Runner-Up for Best student paper award)
Awarded to: Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar, Thiago Castro Ferreira
2020
in the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) (Runner-Up for Best research paper award)
Awarded to: Diego Moussallem, Italo Lopes Oliveira, Luís Paulo Faina Garcia, Renato Fileto
2019
Top-4 team out of 20 teams in the Rich Context Competition. Longer description goes here if needed
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2018
in Semantics Semantics 2018 (Best research paper award)
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Alexander Potocki, Tommaso Soru, Olaf Hartig
2018
in ISWC Satellite Events and SSWS, 2018 (Best paper award)
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Ali Hasnainb, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
2018
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) (Honorable mentioned)
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, A Valdestilhas, T Soru, M Nentwig, E Marx
2017
Best Performing System at OKE 2017 for Tasks 1 and 2
Awarded to: René Speck, Michael Röder
2017
Second-best score in ISWC Semantic Web Challenge 2017 tasks behind the IBMs system Socrates
Awarded to: René Speck
2017
Best Demo Award
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Ivan Ermilov, Simon Bin, Jens Lehmann, Gezim Sejdiu, Buehmann Lorenz, Patrick Westphal, Claus Stadler, Nilesh Chakraborty, Henning Petzka, Hajira Jabeen
2017
Runner Up for Best Paper Award at ISCS 2017
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Edgard Marx, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Tommaso Soru, Adrian M.P. Brasoveanu, Ciro Baron, Albert Weichselbraun, Jens Lehmann, Soren Auer
2016
as one of the top-15 African researchers under 42
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2016
Runner Up for Best Paper Award at KESW 2016
Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Muhammad Saleem
2015
1st prize at Task 2 of Open Knowledge Extraction (OKE) Challenge at International Semantic Web Conference, 2015
Awarded to: Michael Röder, Ricardo Usbeck, René Speck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2015
Best Demo Award in The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events, Revised Selected Papers, Demos & Posters, pages 159–164, 2015
Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Michael Röder, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2015
2nd prize at Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) 5 in CLEF 2015 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1391), 2015
Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2014
Best of Workshop (WASABI) in Joint Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice and Second International Workshop on Finance and Economics on the Semantic Web at ESWC, 2014
Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, D. Cherix, A. Both, J. Lehmann
2014
Best of Workshop (LD4IE) in 2nd International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction at the International Semantic Web Conference, pages 33–44, 2014
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Ricardo Usbeck
2014
Best paper award at conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2014)
2014
Best Paper (Informatiktage). Informatik-Spektrum, 38(5):400–405, 2014
Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck
2014
Best Student Research Paper - Sponsored by FORGE
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Anisa Rula, Matteo Palmonari, Daniel Gerber, Jens Lehmann, Lorenz Bühmann
2013
Semantic Web Challenge (Big Data Track Award) at ISWC 2013
2013
I-Challenge Award (Linked Data Cup Award) at I-Semantics 2013
2013
Best System Description Award at KESW'2013 conference
Awarded to: Ivan Ermilov, M. Martin, J. Lehmann, S. Auer