Ingo Scholtes | Academic Activities & Service

Academic Activities & Service

Below you find an overview of my academic activities and community contributions, including conference and workshop organization, PhD student supervision, committee memberships, editorial roles, and reviewing activities.
Over the past years, I have personally contributed at least 372 review reports for conferences and journals.

Awards, Scholarships, and Recognition

Recognition for Excellence in Teaching from University of Würzburg (2025)
Recognition as "Commendable Reviewer" at ACM KDD (2025)
Best Reviewer Award at the Learning on Graphs conference (2022)
Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (2022)
Special Mention in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Impact Paper Award (2019)
SNSF Professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018)
Juniorfellowship from the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (2014)
Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Communications (TrustCom) (2012)
Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) (2004-2005)

Workshops, Symposium & Conference Organization

Co-Organizer of Special Session: Network Science Meets AI at ESANN 2025, April 23 - 25 2025, Bruges, Belgium
Co-Organizer of SG Final Symposium: The Complexity of Social and Economic Systems: From Models to Measures, October 31 2024, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Organizer of CAIDAS/BAYHOST Symposium on AI for Software Engineering, September 30 - October 1 2024, Würzburg, Germany
Co-Chair of Doctoral Symposium of KI 2024, September 23 2024, Würzburg, Germany
Co-Chair of Focus Session: Machine Learning for Complex Socio-economic Systems at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 18 2024, Berlin, Germany
Co-Organizer of LoG Local Meetup, November 30 - December 1 2023, Munich, Germany
Co-Organizer of CAIDAS Workshop Data Analysis for the Digital Humanities, February 6 - 8 2023, Würzburg, Germany
Organizer of LoG Local Meetup Würzburg, December 21 2022, Würzburg, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, September 17 2020, online event
Chair of Symposium Computational Social Science - Quo Vadis?, April 26 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
Program Co-Chair of Data Science Track at Informatik 2019, September 23-26 2019, Kassel, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, May 28 2019, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 11-12 2018, Paris, France
Chair of Focus Session on Computational Social Science at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 15 2018, Berlin, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASOST 2017), September 22 2017, Tucson, AZ, USA
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 20 2017, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Co-Chair of Workshop Informatik Begeisterung held at Informatik 2016, September 26 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair of 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2016), September 15 2016, Augsburg, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, May 30 2016, Seoul, Korea
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 2 2015, Zaragoza, Spain
Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'15), March 24-27 2015, Porto, Portugal
Co-Chair of Workshop on Social Influence held at 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014), November 10 2014, Barcelona, Spain
Co-Chair of Workshop on Dynamics on and of Complex Networks VII held at European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2014), September 2014, Lucca, Italy
Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 3 2014, Berkeley, CA, USA
Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'14), February 25 - 28 2014, Lübeck, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Dynamics on and of Complex Networks VI held at European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2013), September 2013, Barcelona, Spain
Co-Chair of Workshop on Sozioinformatik held at GI-Jahrestagung Informatik 2013, September 14 2013, Koblenz, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization in Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2013) held at IEEE SASO 2013, September 9 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Workshop Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), September 9-13 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sponsoring Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), September 9-13 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'13), February 20 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Program Co-Chair of 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2012), September 10-14 2012, Lyon, France
Co-Chair of Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering of Computer Systems (CSECS 2012), February 28 2012, Munich, Germany
Co-Chair of Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2011), October 3 2011, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Dagstuhl Seminars and Research Meetings

Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 26251: Temporal Graphs - Structure, Algorithms, Applications, June 14 - 19 2026
Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 25224: Kolloquium zum GI-Dissertationspreis 2024, May 25 - 28 2025
Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 25171: Holistic Graph-Processing Systems: Enabling Real-World Scale and Societal Impact, April 21 - 25 2025
Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 25163: GIBU 2025: GI-Beirat der Universitätsprofessor*innen, April 13 - 15, 2025
Organizer of Dagstuhl Research Meeting 24464: GPU-Accelerated Temporal Graph Learning with pathpyG, November 13 - 15 2024
Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 24193: Kolloquium zum GI-Dissertationspreis 2023, May 5 - 8 2024
Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 24122: Low-Dimensional Embeddings of High-Dimensional Data: Algorithms and Applications, March 17 - 22 2024
Co-Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar 21352: Higher-Order Graph Models: From Theoretical Foundations to Machine Learning, August 29 - September 1 2021
Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 15482: Social Concepts in Self-organising Systems, Nov 22 - 27, 2015
Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 15292: GI-Klausur zu Grand Challenges der Informatik, July 12 - 15 2015
Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 14502: Informatik@Schule - Agenda für informatische Bildung in der Schule, December 7-10 2014
Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 11181: Organic Computing - Design of Self-Organizing Systems, May 1 - 6 2011
Participant at Dagstuhl Advanced Training 07393: Doktorandenseminar, Sept 27 - 28 2007

PhD Student Supervision

Jan von Pichowski, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2024
Moritz Lampert, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2023
Christoph Gote, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2023
Franziska Heeg, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
Chester Tan, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
Lisi Qarkaxhija, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
Dr. Luka Petrovic, University of Zurich, 2019 -- 2023
Dr. Vincenzo Perri, University of Zurich, 2019 -- 2023

PhD Committee Memberships, Thesis Reviews & Opponent Roles

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2025)
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, München, Germany (2023)
University of Umeå Sweden (2023)
University of Bologna, Italy (2023)
Aalto University, Finland (2022)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2021)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (2021)
Northeastern University, USA (2020)
IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy (2019)
University of Luxembourg (2018)

External Reviewer for Professoral Hiring Commissions

Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) / Potsdam University
RPTU Kaiserslautern
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
TU Graz
TU Dresden
HTW Saar
FernUniversität in Hagen
RWTH Aachen

Society Memberships

Member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) (since 2022)
Member of the Tolkien Society (since 2020)
Member of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) (since 2018)
Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) (since 2018)
Member of the Konrad Zuse Gesellschaft (since 2013)
Member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2001)

Committee & Board Memberships

Member of the Jury of the GI Dissertation Award (since 2024)
Member of Evaluation Commission of the funding scheme NRW Rückkehrprogramm by the State Ministry of NRW (2025)
Expert Member of Evaluation Commission for the Leibniz Association (2024)
Appointed Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Speaker of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) (since 2023)
Vice-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (IZMD) (2020 - 2021)
Elected Member of the Presiding Committee of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (2017 - 2020)
Ambassador of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) at University of Zurich (since 2018)
Member of the Data Science Task Force of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2017)
Founding Chair of the Computational Social Science section at the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2016)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of swiss innovation valley ag (2016 - 2019)
Elected member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO) (2014 - 2018)
Chair of the Juniorfellows at Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V.) (2015-2016)
Management Committee Member of EU COST Action TD1210 KNOWeSCAPE: Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes (2014 - 2016)
Member of the Steering Committee (Leitungsgremium) of the GI section (Fachgruppe) Organic Computing (2013 - 2016)

Editorial Activities

Section Editor for "Complex Computing Systems" of Advances in Complex Systems (2022 - 2024)
Editor of EPJ Data Science (2018 - 2024)
Guest editor of Social Network Analysis and Mining
Guest editor of Topical Issue in Advances in Complex Systems: Structure and Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering: A Complex Networks Perspective
Co-editor of book Social Informatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT, Springer Proceedings in Complexity

Reviewing Activities (Funding agencies)

European Research Council (ERC)
ZHAW Digital / DIZH Fellowship Program, Switzerland
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
Villum Foundation, Denmark
Royal Society of New Zealand (Te Aparangi)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, Hungary
Research Council of the Universitë catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Polish National Science Centre, Poland
Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel

Reviewing Activities (Journals)

Reviewing Activities (Conferences and Workshops)

International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSciX 2026), February 17 - 20 2026, Auckland, New Zealand
14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2026), May 2 - May 5 2026, Tangier, Morocco
Area Chair for Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG 2025), Phoenix, AZ, USA
Area Chair for Temporal Graph Learning Workshop @ KDD 2025, Toronto, CA
39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Dataset and Benchmarks Track, San Diego, CA, USA
The 51st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
The Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), July 13 - 19, Vancouver, Canada
The 33rd ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW 2025), Sydney, Australia
28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2025), May 3 - 5 2025, Thailand
Area Chair for Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2024), Virtual Event
13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore
ACM KDD 2025, Barcelona
38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), Vancouver, Canada
ACM KDD 2024, Barcelona
The 33rd ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024), Singapore
NeurIPS Workshop: New Frontiers in Graph Learning (GLFrontiers 2023), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2023), Virtual Event
The 20th Workshop on Machine Learning in Graphs (MLG) at ECML-PKDD, September 22 2023, Torino, Italy
The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA
The 32nd ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW 2023), Austin, TX, USA
Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2022), Virtual Event
30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2022), Tokyo, Japan
28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2022), Washington, D.C., USA
The 31st ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW 2022), Lyon, France
38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Virtual Conference
34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver, Canada
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2019), Burlington, Vermont, USA
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA'18), Turin, Italy
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018), Barcelona, Spain
7th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2018), Cambridge, UK
Doctoral Symposium of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2018), Trento, Italy
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2018), Paris, France
ACM Collective Intelligence 2018, Zurich, Switzerland
COMPLENET 2018, Boston, MA, USA
European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, London, UK
5th International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO-ST 2017), Tucson, AZ, USA
9th IEEE Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17), Montréal, Canada
5th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2016), Milano, Italy
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16), Cologne, Germany
25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montréal, Canada
8th IEEE Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2016), San Francisco, CA, USA
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X 2016), Wroclaw, Poland
4th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2015), Bangkok, Thailand
24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy
3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASOST 2015), Boston, MA, USA
9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2015), Boston, MA, USA
Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2015), Grenoble, France
1st International Workshop on Citizen-Oriented Autonomic Computing and Technologies for SmartCities (COACTS 2015), Grenoble, France
3rd International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'15), Porto, Portugal
2nd International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'14), Lübeck, Germany
8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2014), London, UK
Workshop on Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications 2013 (SETM 2013), October 14, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
1st International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'13), Prague, Czech Republic
2nd International Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2013), Philadelphia, PA, USA
2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex 2012), Santa Fe, NM, USA
6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2012), Lyon, France
International Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering of Computer Systems (CSECS 2012), Munich, Germany
1st International Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2011), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2011), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'11), Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
3rd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'10), Taipei, Taiwan
1st International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX'09), Shanghai, China
2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'09), Lafayette, LA, USA