Primary Job Title Principal Researcher and Research Fellow Primary Organization DFKI
Location Berlin, Berlin, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Georg Rehm works in the Language Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), in Berlin. He is the Network Manager of META-NET, an EU/EC-funded Network of Excellence consisting of 60 research centers from 34 countries, dedicated to building the technological foundations of a multilingual European information
society. Furthermore, he is the Coordinator of the EU/EC-funded project CRACKER which initiated, among others, the new European federation Cracking the Language Barrier. Georg is also the coordinator of the BMBF-funded project Digitale Kuratierungstechnologien.
Additionally, Georg Rehm is the Manager of the German/Austrian Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), hosted at DFKI in Berlin. In that capacity, Georg is involved in several bridge building activities between W3C work on the Web of Things on one hand and Industrie 4.0-related activities in Germany on the other.
Georg Rehm holds an M.A. in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück. After completing his PhD in Computational Linguistics at the University of Gießen, he worked at the University of Tübingen, responsible for projects on the sustainability of language resources and language technologies. After leading the language technology development at an award-winning internet startup in Berlin, he joined DFKI in early 2010.
Georg Rehm has authored, co-authored and edited more than 100 research publications and co-edited, together with Hans Uszkoreit, the META-NET White Paper Series Europe's Languages in the Digital Age as well as the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual 2020. He is also one of the editors of the Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual Digital Single Market.
