European Space Agency. Agile systems, temporal planning.

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society.

Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation and auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction.

University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management.

Director of the Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL), University of Missouri in St. Louis. Research interests: Evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks, machine learning.

Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals.

University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling.

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining.

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis.

University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, structural priming/alignment in dialogue, rhetorical analysis.