Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Matthes (b. 1963) focuses his research on business information systems and software engineering. He explores natural language processing in medical, legal and enterprise applications, privacy-enhancing technologies for digital platforms and blockchain-based systems engineering.

As Head of the Software Architecture working group of Gesellschaft für Informatik, a member of the advisory board of the Ernst Denert foundation for software engineering and the organizer of several international conferences, Prof. Matthes helped to foster cooperation between practitioners and scientists in software engineering and information management. He is co-founder of several successful IT startups:  CoreMedia AG (1996), infoAsset AG (1999), Tr8cy UK Ltd (2018), and silver AI GmbH (2024).

His academic career started at J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt (graduated 1988). He did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1992. He worked as a researcher at Digital Equipment Systems’ research center in Palo Alto (1992-93) and served as professor at TU Hamburg-Harburg from 1997 to 2002. Until 2010, he was Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Computer Science and a member of the teaching board of TUM.  Since 2020 he is venture ambassador of the TUM Venture Labs.

Vladika J, Schneider P, Matthes F. “HealthFC: Verifying Health Claims with Evidence-Based Medical Fact-Checking“. In: Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italia. 2024; 8095–8107.

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Schneider P, Afzal A, Vladika J, Braun D, Matthes F. „Investigating Conversational Search Behavior for Domain Exploration“. In: Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13981. Springer, Cham. 2023; 608-616.

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Munilla Garrido G, Sedlmeir J, Uludağ Ö, Soto Alaoui I, Luckow A, Matthes F. „Revealing the Landscape of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in the Context of Data Markets for the IoT: A Systematic Literature Review”. Journal of Network and Computer Application. 2022; Volume 207 Article 103465.

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Brunner C, Gallersdörfer U, Knirsch F, Engel D, Matthes F. 2021. „DID and VC: Untangling Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials for the Web of Trust”. In: 3rd International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications (ICBTA '20). New York, NY, USA. 2021; 61–66.

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Elnaggar A, Gebendorfer C, Glaser I, Matthes F. „Multi-Task Deep Learning for Legal Document Translation, Summarization and Multi-Label Classification”. In: Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC '18). New York, NY, USA. 2018; 9–15.

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