CV
Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Lang
Academic education
10/1974 - 03/1979: Chemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Scientific degrees
11/1988: Dr.-Ing., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart: “Modularisierungskonzepte bei Simulationsproblemen in integrierten Programmsystemen” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Rühle, Director Computing Center & “Leiter des Lehrbereichs Anwendungen der Informatik im Maschinenwesen“)
03/1979: Dipl.-Ing., University of Stuttgart
Scientific career
2004 - present: C4-Professor for Computer Science, University of Cologne
2004 - present: Director of Regional Computing Centre (RRZK), University of Cologne
2002 - 2004: Deputy Director of Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS)
1989 - 2004: Head of Visualization Department, HLRS
1989 - 1989: Visiting Scientist, Center for High Performance Computing, Austin, Texas, USA
1986 - 1988: Research Assistant, Computing Center, University of Stuttgart
1981 - 1985: Research Assistant, Institute for Nuclear Science and Energy Systems, University of Stuttgart
Honors/ Awards/ Memberships
2011 - present: Member of the governing board of DFN e.V. (German Research Network)
2011 - 2014: Chairman of the Board of ZKI e.V. (Directors of the German Academic Computing Centers)
2007 - 2011: Member of the Board of ZKI. e.V.
2011 - 2018: CO-PI of DFG-TRR32 Z1: Data Management and spatial data analysis
2011 - 2014: PI of BMBF-project NGSgosHPC “Next Generation Sequencing on High Performance Computing”
2009 - 2012: PI of BMBF-Project MoSGrid “Molecular Simulation on the Grid”
10 most relevant publications
- Zellmann S, Hoevels M, Lang U. Ray Traced Volume Clipping Using Multi-Hit BVH Traversal. Proceedings of the Visualization and Data Analysis Conference 2017 Jan; DOI: 10.2352, VDA-392
- Stamnas E, Lammert A, Winkelmann V, Lang U. The HD(CP)2 Data Archive for Atmospheric Measurement Data. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2016, July; 5(7), 124
- Zellmann S, Percan Y, Lang U. Advanced texture filtering: a versatile framework for reconstructing multi-dimensional image data on heterogeneous architectures. Proceedings of the Visualization and Data Analysis conference, 2015 Feb; DOI: 10.1117/12.2077927
- Peifer M, Hertwig F, Roels F, Dreidax D, Gartlgruber M, Menon R, Krämer A, Roncaioli JL, Sand F, Heuckmann JM, Ikram F, Schmidt R, Ackermann S, Engesser A, Kahlert Y, Vogel W, Altmüller J, Nürnberg P, Thierry-Mieg J, Thierry-Mieg D, Mariappan A, Heynck S, Mariotti E, Henrich KO, Gloeckner C, Bosco G, Leuschner I, Schweiger MR, Savelyeva L, Watkins SC, Shao C, Bell E, Höfer T, Achter V, Lang U, Theissen J, Volland R, Saadati M, Eggert A, de Wilde B, Berthold F, Peng Z, Zhao C, Shi L, Ortmann M, Büttner R, Perner S, Hero B, Schramm A, Schulte JH, Herrmann C, O'Sullivan RJ, Westermann F, Thomas RK, Fischer M. Telomerase activation by genomic rearrangements in high-risk neuroblastoma. Nature. 2015 Oct 29;526(7575):700-4.
- George J, Lim JS, Jang SJ, Cun Y, Ozretić L, Kong G, Leenders F, Lu X, Fernández-Cuesta L, Bosco G, Müller C, Dahmen I, Jahchan NS, Park KS, Yang D, Karnezis AN, Vaka D, Torres A, Wang MS, Korbel JO, Menon R, Chun SM, Kim D, Wilkerson M, Hayes N, Engelmann D, Pützer B, Bos M, Michels S, Vlasic I, Seidel D, Pinther B, Schaub P, Becker C, Altmüller J, Yokota J, Kohno T, Iwakawa R, Tsuta K, Noguchi M, Muley T, Hoffmann H, Schnabel PA, Petersen I, Chen Y, Soltermann A, Tischler V, Choi CM, Kim YH, Massion PP, Zou Y, Jovanovic D, Kontic M, Wright GM, Russell PA, Solomon B, Koch I, Lindner M, Muscarella LA, la Torre A, Field JK, Jakopovic M, Knezevic J, Castaños-Vélez E, Roz L, Pastorino U, Brustugun OT, Lund-Iversen M, Thunnissen E, Köhler J, Schuler M, Botling J, Sandelin M, Sanchez-Cespedes M, Salvesen HB, Achter V, Lang U, Bogus M, Schneider PM, Zander T, Ansén S, Hallek M, Wolf J, Vingron M, Yatabe Y, Travis WD, Nürnberg P, Reinhardt C, Perner S, Heukamp L, Büttner R, Haas SA, Brambilla E, Peifer M, Sage J, Thomas RK. Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer. Nature. 2015 Aug 6;524(7563):47-53.
- Kawalia A, Motameny S, Wonczak S, Thiele H, Nieroda L, Jabbari K, Borowski S, Sinha V, Gunia W, Lang U, Achter V, Nürnberg P. Leveraging the power of high performance computing for next generation sequencing data analysis: tricks and twists from a high throughput exome workflow, PloS one. 2015 May 5;10(5):e0126321
- Percan Y, Zellmann S, Lang U. Asymptotic error of cubic B-spline interpolation using prefiltering. Springer. Numerical Algorithms. 2015 Sep, Volume 70, Issue 1, pp 191–203
- Zellmann S, Lang U. A Comparison of GPU Box-Plane Intersection Algorithms for Direct Volume Rendering. The 14th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), 2013 Feb; DOI: 10.2316/P.2013.797-019
- Zellmann S, Lang U; A Software Architecture for Distributed Volume Rendering on HPC Systems. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems. 2012 Nov. DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.789-038
- Birkenheuer G, Blunk D, Breuers S, Brinkmann A, Santos Vieira I, Fels G, Gesing S, Grunzke R, Herres-Pawlis S, Kohlbacher O, Kruber N, Krüger J, Lang U, Packschies L, Müller-Pfefferkorn R, Schäfer R, Schmalz H-G, Steinke T, Warzecha K-D, Wewior M. MoSGrid - A Molecular Simulation Grid as a new tool in Computational Chemistry, Biology and Material Science. J. Cheminform. 2011 Apr. doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-S1-P14
Contact Information
Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Lang
Professor (C4) and Director of the Regional Computing Center
University of Cologne
Institute for Computer Science and Regional Computing Centre (RRZK) Cologne
