about :: alexander rind

work experience

since 01/2014: St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria; Researcher at the Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
02/2022 – 06/2022: IMC Fachhochschule Krems, Austria; Lecturer for the Informatics bachelor degree programme
10/2016 – 02/2022: University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria; Lecturer at the School of Informatics, Communications and Media
03/2014 – 02/2015: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Lecturer at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
04/2011 – 12/2013: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Researcher at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Information Engineering Group
03/2008 – 03/2011: Danube University Krems, Austria; Researcher at the Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering
12/2004 – 02/2008: Krems Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria; Researcher in the domain of e-Tourism
10/1999 – 06/2003: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Teaching assistant for “Introduction to Programming”, “Distributed Systems”, “Web Engineering”, and “Modeling Techniques and Methods”

since 03/2008: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Ph.D. in Wirtschaftsinformatik; (german; comparable to Information Systems or Business Informatics)
10/2004 – 11/2017: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; M.Sc. in Information & Knowledge Management; (a specialized study programme in computer science) with distinction; Master thesis “A Software Framework for Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data”; Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Supervisor: Prof. Silvia Miksch
10/1998 – 07/2004: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; M.Sc. in Wirtschaftsinformatik; (german; comparable to Information Systems or Business Informatics); Master thesis “A Survey and Classification of Web Engineering Methodologies”; Institute of Information Systems, Supervisor: Prof. Mehdi Jazayeri
08/2001 – 01/2002: Lund University, Sweden; Semester abroad as graduate student in Informatik; (swedish; comparable to Information Systems)

09/2010: Middlesex University, London, UK; UKVAC Visual Analytics Summer School; Organisers: Dr. Simon Attfield & Prof. William Wong
09/2008 – 12/2009: Danube University Krems, Austria; Business English Support Training
03/2009: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna, Austria; Coaching Workshop for Scientists
09/2007: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Reasoning Web 2007 Summer School
09/2003 – 10/2003: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; BEST Course on Technology “From Azimuth to Zoom: the world through the ‘Looking Glass’”
10/2002 – 06/2003: Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Swedish
04/2003: Lund University, Sweden; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; BEST Course on Technology “Imagine a modern - BEST city!”
03/2003: L’École Supérieure d’ Électricité, France; BEST Course on Technology “Energy in Europe, Union or Confusion”
08/2001 – 11/2001: Lund University, Sweden; Swedish as a foreign language

2020: Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Province of Lower Austria; Recognition of excellent innovation; for the research project ReMoCap-Lab
2017: Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Province of Lower Austria; Recognition of excellent innovation; for the research project KAVA-Time
2016: Forum Media Technology; Best Paper Award for Rind et al., Exploring Media Transparency With Multiple Views
2015: IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology; Best Poster Award for Bögl et al., Visually and Statistically Guided Imputation of Missing Values in Univariate Seasonal Time Series
2012: Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology; Nomination to the Young Distinguished Alumnus Award for Stephan Hoffmann (co-supervised by Alexander Rind)
2010: Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research; Sparkling Science; Top 5 submission to the third call for the research project HorizonVis
2010: Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Province of Lower Austria; Recognition of excellent innovation; for the research project VisuExplore
2002: Province of Lower Austria; “Top” scholarship

2002 – 2009: BEST Vienna; local chapter of the Board of European Students of Technology at Vienna University of Technology; Founding member, Secretary of the 1st board, Vice-President for IT of the 2nd board, Summer Course Organiser
2002 – 2005: BEST markeTeam; international committee of the Board of European Students of Technology for the coordination of marketing activities; Project manager/Editor for Annual Report, Editor for BESTtimes, Project manager for photo contest, Administrator for toolBox
2003 – 2005: Erasmus Student Network Mentor for exchange students at Vienna University of Technology
2001: Krischansta Nation Lund, Sweden; Bartender at students’ nightclub, pub, and café