Summary
Harald Sack is a professor and R&D generalist with over a decade of experience specializing in symbolic and subsymbolic knowledge representations for innovative information management systems. He leads research and teaching in Information Service Engineering at KIT and FIZ Karlsruhe, applying semantic technologies across research data management, cultural heritage, and materials science. A long-time entrepreneur, he co-founded yovisto GmbH, blending academic rigor with product-focused innovation. His background spans hands-on systems work—from programming and databases in early Bundeswehr projects to heading a semantic technologies group at Hasso-Plattner-Institut—giving him rare depth across research, engineering, and operational domains. Known for bridging theory and practice, he often translates complex knowledge representations into usable services for domain experts.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universität Trier
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Bundeswehr University Munich
English