Jana Koehler

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Zurich Research Laboratory
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Jana Koehler received her Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from University of Saarland in 1994. From 1990 until 1995 she was working at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI), project PHI. She was a guest researcher at University of Linkoping in 1994, the University of Maryland in 1995, and a postdoc at ICSI Berkeley in 1995/1996. From 1996 to 1999 she was an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg where she got her habilitation (Dr.habil.) and developed the IPP planning system. In May 1998, she started working as a consultant for Schindler Lifts Ltd and joined the company between Fall 1999 and Spring 2001 to develope a new intelligent elevator control system. In April 2001, she joined the Computer Science Research Department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory where she has built up a new research group focusing on business-driven development.

She is the winner of several awards including the AKI Dissertation Award 1995 and the Digital Equipment Prize 1994. The IPP planner won the first international planning competition at AIPS-98 in the ADL track and received the KI/UI Award for the best academic research prototype at the German Conference for AI 1998. She is also serving as president of the VFF-DFKI.

Her research interests develop with the projects she is working on: planning and scheduling technology, combinatorial optimization techniques, multi-agent systems. Recently: workflow systems, model checking, process algebras, service-oriented architectures and business process modeling.

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Last update: Jana Koehler, Oct 15, 2007