Dr. phil. nat. Marcus Liwicki

•  Dec 2007 
  Alumni Award for the best phd-thesis View website
•  Jun 2005 
  Best student paper award at IGS 2005 View website
•  Jun 1999 
  Participation at Mathematics Olympiad (Best result: 3rd place in Berlin, 1st in borough)

Marcus Liwicki received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2004, and his PhD degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2007. Currently he is a senior researcher and lecturer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
His research interests include knowledge management, semantic desktop, electronic pen-input devices, on-line and off-line handwriting recognition and document analysis. From October 2009 to March 2010 he visited Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) as a research fellow, supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

Marcus Liwicki is a member of the IAPR and a regular reviewer for international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Pattern Recognition, and Pattern Recognition Letters. He is a member of the International Graphonomics Society and the International Association for Pattern Recognition and a PC-Chair of the International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis. Furthermore he serves in the program committee of the Int. Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, the Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference, the IEEE ISM Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning, the Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, and as a reviewer of several IAPR conferences, AI workshops and conferences. Since 2010 he is the organizer of the discussion groups on the Workshops on Document Analysis and Recognition.
Marcus Liwicki gave a number of invited talks at several international workshops, universities, and companies. He also gave several tutorials on IAPR conferences.
Marcus Liwicki is a co-author of the book "Recognition of Whiteboard Notes – Online, Offline, and Combination", published by World Scientific in October 2008.
He has more than 50 publications, including more than ten journal papers.