Dr.-Ing. Paul Vincent Kuper - CV

Work Experience

January 2011 - Until now

Research Associate at the Geodetic Institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 

February 2016 – April 2016

Research visit at the TU Delft, Netherlands 

February 2014 – April 2014

Research visit at the American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

February 2008 – Mai 2008

Internship at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in the Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany

April 2006 – October 2010
Student Assistant at the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF), Osnabrück, Germany

 

Education 

October 2004 - December 2010
Diploma in Systems Science with focus on Computer Sciences, University of Osnabrück, Germany

2016
Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing) at the faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

 

International Conferences

2016

  • Jan.: GIS and Remote Sensing Annual Scientific Forum (GRASF), Dubai
  • Jan.: Middle East Geospatial Forum 2016, Dubai
  • Jan.: Meeting of AUD's GeoInformatics Group, Dubai
  • April: Geomatics Day, Delft
  • Oct.: 3DGeoInfo 2016, Athens, Greece
2015
  • Feb.: GIS and Remote Sensing Annual Scientific Forum (GRASF), Dubai
  • Feb.: Middle East Geospatial Forum 2015, Dubai
  • Feb.: Meeting of AUD's GeoInformatics Group, Dubai

2014

  • Nov.: 9th 3DGeoInfo Conference 2014, Dubai
  • March: Gulf Programming Contest 2014, Dubai

2013

  • March: Geoinformatik 2013, Heidelberg
  • Oct: Meeting of AUD's GeoInformatics Group, Dubai
  • November: 8th 3DGeoInfo Conference, Istanbul

2012

  • Oct.: Launch of AUD's GeoInformatics Group, Dubai
  • Oct.: 3D Geologie Workshop, Flensburg
  • Aug.: 15th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Bonn
  • March: FOSSGIS 2012, Dessau

2011

  • Sept.:12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Minneapolis
  • April: FOSSGIS 2011, Heidelberg
  • Juni.: Geoinformatik, Münster

2010

  • Juni: 30th gOcad Meeting, Nancy
  • March: Geoinformatik 2010, Kiel
  • Feb.: FOSSGIS 2010, Osnabrück

2009

  • Nov.: 4th International 3D GeoInfo Workshop, Ghent

 

Certificates and Fundraising

  • Faculty teaching award for high quality teaching 
  • Introduction to GOCAD for Building Geological Models course
  • SKUA Quick Start class
  • "Einführung in das Textsatzsystem Latex2e" des Karlsruher Steinbuch Centre for Computing
  • PostgreSQL/PostGIS-Workshop für Fortgeschrittene
  • Erfolgreich eingeworbenes EXIST-Projekt des BMWi mit der Produktidee GeoDroid
  • Mentor des BMWi EXIST-Projekts GeoDroid
  • Founder of the month 
 

Memberships

  • ISPRS WG IV-7 (Geo-Data Management)
  • Graduiertenschule des KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (GRACE)
  • Conference Chair und Scientific Program Committee der 3DGeoInfo 2014, Dubai
  • AUD/KIT Geoinformatics Group
 

Workshops

2017

  • Jan.: "Geodatenbanken" Workshop an der TU München (Runder Tisch GIS)

2016

  • Oct.: "Geodatenbanken" Workshop an der TU München (Runder Tisch GIS)

2014

  • March/April.: "Mobile GIS and Android" Workshop an der AUD, Dubai

2013

  • Oct.: "Mobile GIS and Android" Workshop an der AUD, Dubai
  • September: Workshop Mobile GIS mit Android am KIT, Karlsruhe

2012

  • Oct.: PostGIS-Workshop zum Start der GeoInformatics Group AUD/KIT, Dubai
  • March: Workshop Mobile GIS mit Android am KIT, Karlsruhe

2011

  • September: Workshop Mobile GIS mit Android am KIT, Karlsruhe

 

Interests and Research Fields

  • Java-Enterprise-Anwendungsentwicklung
  • Android- (Open Handset Alliance) und Java-Mobile-Anwendungsentwicklung
  • Entwicklung professioneller Mobiler GIS
  • SQL, objekt-relationale and objekt-orientierte Datenbanksysteme (db4o, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, SpatiaLite, etc.)
  • CASE (Eclipse EE), Entwicklung im Team (GIT, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Scrum)
  • WebGL und XML3D
  • Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Div. ISO-/OGC-Standards der GIS-Programmierung (Geography Markup Language, Webservices, etc.)