Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann

Current affiliations

  • European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Multiobjective Optimization
  • Evolutionary Optimization
  • Automated Algorithm Selection and Configuration
  • Data Stream Mining
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Academic Education

07/2004 - 01/2013Habilitation in Statistics: ”Statistical and Experimental Methods in Single- and Multi-Objective (Evolutionary) Optimization”, TU Dortmund, Germany
10/2002 - 06/2004PhD in Statistics "Qualitätskontrolle in der Industrie anhand von Kontrollkarten für Wünschbarkeitsindizes - Anwendungsfeld Lagerverwaltung“, Graduate School of Production Engineering and Logistics, University of Dortmund, Germany
10/1997 - 02/2000University studies in Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany
10/1996 - 07/1998University studies in Economic Mathematics, University of Dortmund, Germany

Work Experience

since 10/2016Vice Dean for Internationalization, School of Business & Economics
since 04/2013Professor for Information Systems and Statistics, WWU Münster, Germany
03/2021 - 02/2026Professor of Data Science: Statistics and Optimization, University of Twente, NL
02/2017 - 01/2018Pascal Professor, LIACS, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
10/2007 - 03/2013Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computational Statistics, TU Dortmund, Germany
10/2006 - 09/2007DFG (German research foundation) research grant: "Der Einfluss von Modellunsicherheiten bei Wünschbarkeitsindizes und Pareto-Optimierung“, TU Dortmund, Germany
07/2004 - 09/2006Graduate School of Statistical Modeling, University of Dortmund, Germany, PostDoc research grant
10/2002 - 06/2004Graduate School of Production Engineering and Logistics, University of Dortmund, Germany, PhD scholarship
03/2001 - 09/2002Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Munich, Germany, Business Analytics Consultant
04/2000 - 02/2001Marketing Systems GmbH, Essen, Germany, Consultant

Functions and Memberships

since 09/2018Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), Key supporter
since 2017ACM full member, ACM Sigevo
since 09/2017Scientific Advisory Committee, Westphalia Data Lab (WDL), Münster
since 2013Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA), program committee member
since 2012ACM-SIGEVO, Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Association for Computing Machinery
since 2012EVOLVE - A bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics and Evolutionary Computation, program committee member
since 2011Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) , program committee member
since 2008International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) , program committee member
since 2007IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), program committee member
10/2011 - 03/2013Global Young Faculty, Mercator Research Center Ruhr

Publications

Schäpermeier, Lennart; Kerschke, Pascal; Grimme, Christian; Trautmann, Heike (2023)
In: Li, Ke; Wang, Hao (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference Series on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. Cham: Springer.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Prager RP; Trautmann H (2023)
In: Correia J; Smith S; Qaddoura R (eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Cham: Springer Nature.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Prager, Raphael Patrick; Trautmann, Heike (2023)
In: Evolutionary Computation
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Seiler, Moritz Vinzent; Prager, Raphael Patrick; Kerschke, Pascal; Trautmann, Heike (2022)
In: - (eds.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Pohl, Janina Susanne; Assenmacher, Dennis; Seiler, Moritz Vincent; Trautmann, Heike; Grimme, Christian (2022)
In: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (eds.), Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Palo Alto, CA, USA: AAAI Press.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
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Projects

Duration: 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2024
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Type of project: Participation in BMBF-joint project
Duration: 01/10/2021 - 30/09/2022
Funded by: DAAD - International Virtual Academic Collaboration
Type of project: Participation in other joint projects
Duration: 01/07/2021 - 30/11/2021
Funded by: Federal Office for Information Security
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/10/2020 - 31/12/2021
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
Duration: since 01/12/2019
Type of project: Own resources project
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Talks

Inside the tool set of automation: Free social bot code revisited
Assenmacher, Dennis; Adam, Lena; Frischlich, Lena; Trautmann, Heike; Grimme, Christian (01/03/2019)
MISDOOM - Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Online Media, Hamburg, Deutschland
Type of talk: scientific talk
Automated detection of nostalgic text in the context of societal pessimism
Adam, Lena; Frischlich, Lena; Trautmann, Heike; Grimme, Christian (28/02/2019)
MISDOOM - Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Online Media, Hamburg, Deutschland
Type of talk: scientific talk

Prizes

CBI Best Paper Award 2019
Awarded by: 21st IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI '19)
Award given to: Carnein, Matthias; Homann, Leschek; Trautmann, Heike; Vossen, Gottfried
Announced at: 15/07/2019 | Date of awarding: 15/07/2019
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Pascal Professor 2017
Awarded by: LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Award given to: Trautmann, Heike
Announced at: 01/01/2017 | Date of awarding: 01/01/2017
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
PPSN XIV Best Paper Award (2016)
Awarded by: Edinburgh Napier University and Organizing Committee of PPSN XIV
Award given to: Kerschke, Pascal; Wang, Hao; Preuss, Mike; Grimme, Christian; Deutz, André; Emmerich, Michael; Trautmann, Heike
Announced at: 21/09/2016 | Date of awarding: 15/09/2016
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Best Paper Award, Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) Track
Awarded by: Association for Computing Machinery, Genetics and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2012
Award given to: Brockhoff, Dimo; Wagner, Tobias; Trautmann, Heike
Date of awarding: 15/07/2012
Type of distinction: Best publication award

Doctorates

Data Analytics for Harmful Online Communication in Social Media
Candidate: Assenmacher, Dennis | Supervisors: Trautmann, Heike; Angus, Daniel | Reviewers: Trautmann, Heike; Angus, Daniel
Period of time: 27/10/2017 - 12/01/2022
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Machine Learning on Data Streams - Improving the Applicability and Performance of Stream Clustering Algorithms
Candidate: Carnein, Matthias | Supervisors: Trautmann, Heike; Bifet Albert
Period of time: until 21/01/2020
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Investigating Problem Hardness in (Multi-Objective) Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithm Selection, Instance Generation and Tailored Algorithm Design
Candidate: Bossek, Jakob | Supervisors: Trautmann, Heike; Neumann, Frank | Reviewers: Trautmann, Heike; Neumann, Frank
Period of time: 01/02/2015 - 15/11/2018
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Automated and Feature-Based Problem Characterization and Algorithm Selection Through Machine Learning
Candidate: Kerschke, Pascal | Supervisors: Trautmann, Heike; Bäck, Thomas
Period of time: until 13/11/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster