Georg Gottlob

Georg Gottlob is a distinguished computer scientist and professor with a remarkable career in academia and industry. He is currently a Royal Society Research Professor and Professor of Informatics at the University of Oxford, as well as an Adjunct Professor at TU Wien.45 At Oxford, he is a Fellow of St John's College.4

Gottlob's research interests span several areas of computer science, including:

• Database theory and query languages
• Web data processing and extraction
• Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation
• Computational logic and constraint satisfaction
• Graph-theoretic problem decomposition methods24

He has made significant contributions to these fields, publishing over 250 scientific articles and receiving numerous prestigious awards, including:

• Election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010
• The Ada Lovelace Medal in 2017
• The Wittgenstein Award from the Austrian National Science Fund in 1998
• Honorary doctorates from the University of Klagenfurt (2016) and the University of Vienna (2020)12

Gottlob's academic journey began at Vienna University of Technology, where he obtained his undergraduate and PhD degrees in computer science in 1981.1 He has held professorships at TU Vienna (1988-2005) and the University of Oxford (since 2006).23

In addition to his academic work, Gottlob has been involved in several successful tech startups:

• Co-founded DeepReason.ai, a company focused on reasoning on Big Data and enterprise knowledge graphs
• Co-founded Wrapidity Ltd in 2015, which specialized in web data extraction and was acquired by Meltwater
• Co-founded Lixto, which was acquired by McKinsey & Company in 20133

Gottlob's contributions to the field have earned him membership in prestigious academic institutions, including the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the European Academy of Sciences Academia Europaea.2