Teaching & Advising

Northeastern University

• Principles in scalable data management (cs7240/cs7280): PhD breath class for PhD students
  
  • Spring 2019: (Course web page), joint with Mirek Riedewald
• Database design (cs3200): for undergraduates
  
  • Fall 2018 (Course web page)
  • Spring 2018 (Course web page)
• Special topics in Data Science (cs7290): for PhD students
  • Fall 2017: Foundations in scalable data management (Course web page), joint with Mirek Riedewald

Previously taught classes and seminars

Carnegie Mellon University (2011-2017)

• Modern Data Management (45-881): for MBAs
  
  • Spring 2017 (Mini 3): 2 regular + 1 online hybrid section
  • Fall 2015 (Mini 2): 1 regular + 1 online hybrid section
  • Fall 2014 (Mini 2)
• Business Technology Seminar (47-953): for PhD students
  
  • Spring 2016 (Mini 3): Methods and algorithms for determining relevance & trust in networked data
  • Fall 2013 (Mini 2): Methods and algorithms for determining relevance in networked data (seminar web page)
• Modern Data Management (70-455): for Undergraduates
  
  • Spring 2017
  • Spring 2016
  • Spring 2015
  • Spring 2014 [Highlights]
  • Spring 2013 [Syllabus 2013]
• Management Information Systems (70-451): for Undergraduates
  
  • Spring 2015
  • Spring 2014
  • Spring 2013 [Syllabus 2013]
  • Spring 2012: 2 sections [Midterm exam 2012], [Final exam 2012]

University of Washington (2007-2011)

• Introduction to Databases (cse 444)
  joint with Alexandra Meliou
  Winter 2011 (Course web page)
• Database seminar (cse 590q): Positive and negative provenance in database systems
  joint with Alexandra Meliou
  Winter 2010 (Seminar web page)
• Database seminar (cse 590q): Inconsistency management for community databases
  Autumn 2009 (Seminar web page)
• Database seminar (cse 590q): Recent trends in biological data integration
  Winter 2008 (Seminar web page)

Vienna University of Technology (2004-2007)

• Seminar Web Information Extraction
  Winter 2005/06 (Static copy of former seminar web page)
  The Proseminar Quadrology (from Class):
  • 1: Graphics vs. Text (10-20-2005) [Slides]
  • 2: The Minto Pyramid Principle (updated: 01-18-2007) [Slides]
    

    Apparently my most often read document.

  • 3: WYSIWYG vs. coding text (11-04-2005) [Slides]
  • 4: Storylining Your Presentations (11-18-2005) [Slides]
• Seminar Web Information Extraction
  joint with Bernhard Krüpl
  Summer 2005 (Static copy of former seminar web page), [Intermediate hand-ins], [Final hand-ins]
  
• Seminar Web Information Extraction
  joint with Bernhard Krüpl
  Winter 2004/05

General thoughts on teaching & education

• Interpreting Instead of Teaching Facts in the Classroom
  Wolfgang Gatterbauer
  Teaching Theory and Academic Writing: A Guide to Undergraduate Lecturing in Political Science, Malte Brosig & Kinga Kas (eds.), pp. 33-43, 2008.
  [Essay], [bib], [Flipped Classroom, Flipped Classroom, pdf, pdf]
  

  This essay argues that we should use the limited time in classroom for solidification and interpretation of material which was students have previously learned by themselves at their own pace through homeworks. This philosophy is very much in spirit with proposals to replace "teaching the content classes" with Khan Academy style web-based video courses recorded once, and then to focus the classroom time on discussion sessions and dealing with questions. Also note the recent momentum around online tools that help to "flip" the classroom (see e.g. Friedman's May 2011 NYtimes article).

• Alternativen zum freien Hochschulzugang: Ein Diskurs �ber Bildungspolitik (Jan 2006) [Presentation]
  

  This was a provocative presentation on higher education. Slides are partly in German and English.

• Storylining with WYSIWYG and Shortcuts (updated: Jan 2007) [doc]
• Organizing your downloaded papers on your HD (updated: July 2005) [pdf]
• Giving and receiving feedback (updated: Jan 2007) [Illustration]

Advised students and next position

• Jonathan Danaparamita (B.Sc. thesis 2010, M.Sc. student at University of Michigan)
• Paul Bohunsky (Dipl.-Ing. 2008, start-up)
• Bernhard Pollak (Dipl.-Ing. 2007, Siemens)