Summary
Alexander Paar is a professor of computer science and seasoned software engineer with a summa cum laude Dr.-Ing. from KIT and around eight years of professional experience bridging academia and industry. He has led data and enterprise software teams, served in executive roles, and now focuses on teaching and research in multi-paradigm languages, data science, and cloud-native systems. Author of Zhi#, the first object-oriented language with built-in ontology support, he blends language design, semantic web techniques and practical ML/data engineering. His work spans distributed multi-tier platforms, SPARQL integration into research languages, and applied projects in automotive and telecommunications research. An active conference speaker and reviewer, he combines rigorous research credentials with hands-on product and transformation experience in European research and industry contexts.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Vordiplom, Computer Science, Vordiplom, Computer Science at Technische Universität Clausthal
Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, summa cum laude, Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, summa cum laude at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
University of California, Irvine
English, German, Spanish, French