Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Sven Groppe

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- außerplanmäßiger Professor -
Head of the Research Group "Quantum and Intelligent Computing (QIC)"


Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, 2. OG, Raum 65

Email: sven.groppe(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 5706

Curriculum Vitae

Since February 2007: Member of the Institute of Information Systems (IFIS)
Since 17.06.2019: Außerplanmäßiger Professor

 

Research Interests

My research interests include the following areas and their combinations (none-exclusive list)

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science
    • LLMs, Agentic Workflows, Mathematical Optimizations, Graph Neural Networks, Chatbots, Reasoning, Quantum Machine Learning
  • Data Management
    • Query Processing and Optimization, Indexing, Mapping, Compression, Replication, Caching, Transaction Handling
  • Data Models
    • Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, Property Graphs, Relational Data, XML
  • Types of Data
    • Big Data, Data Streams
  • Emergent Hardware Technologies
    • Many-Core CPU, GPU, FPGA, Quantum Computer
  • Platforms
    • Internet, Internet of Things, Cloud, Post-Cloud (Fog/Edge/Dew Computing), P2P, Mobile, Parallel and Main Memory Servers
  • Advanced AI/ML Applications
    • Citizen Science, Customer Communications, Pandemics like Covid-19, Software Vulnerability Prediction
  • Sustainability
    • Sustainable Computing/AI, Applications for Sustainability

Projects

Prof. Groppe receives grants for the following projects and serves as principle investigator or project coordinator:

Running Projects

Completed Projects

Open Thesis

A list of my open thesis is available here.

Please see also my slides of the last bachelor/master forum (PDF).

Completed PhDs supervised by Prof. Dr. Sven Groppe

  • Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Warnke (Thesis)
  • Dr.-Ing. Stefan Werner (Thesis)
  • Dr.-Ing. Dennis Heinrich (Thesis)

More Information

More information is available on my homepage.

Recent talks are listed on my keynote page.

Links to my pages at common literature search engines: DBLP, Google Scholar

Publications

2025

Sarika Jain, Priyanka Sukul, Jinghua Groppe, Benjamin Warnke, Pooja Harde, Ritik Jangid, Waqas Rehan, Yuri Cotrado, Stefan Fischer, and Sven Groppe,
A scientometric analysis of reviews on the Internet of Things, The Journal of Supercomputing , vol. 81, no. 6, Apr. 2025. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
File: s11227-025-07230-w
Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Marc Pignal, Eva Perez Pimparé, and Régine Vignes-Lebbe,
Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms, Computers , vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2025.
File: computers14010021
Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Sven Groppe, Dominik Röpert, and Jinghua Groppe,
Ai-supported analysis and classification of digitized botanical collections, in 11th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2025.
Jinghua Groppe, Andreas Marquet, Annabel Walz, and Sven Groppe,
Automated Archival Descriptions with Federated Intelligence of LLMs, in The 36th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Bangkok, Thailand , 2025.
File: 978-3-032-02049-9_4
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Sanju Tiwari, Farah Benamara, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Jinghua Groppe, Soror Sahri, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, and Sven Groppe,
EcoRAG: A Multi-hop Economic QA Benchmark for Retrieval Augmented Generation Using Knowledge Graphs, in Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB), Kanazawa, Japan , 2025. pp. 163–173.
File: 978-3-031-97144-0_15
Anna Osipjan, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
GraphTrace: A Modular Retrieval Framework Combining Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models for Multi-Hop Question Answering, Computers , vol. 14, no. 9, 2025. MDPI AG.
File: computers14090382
Sven Groppe, Valter Uotila, and Jinghua Groppe,
Opportunities and Challenges for Data Quality in the Era of Quantum Computing, arXiv , vol. 2512.00870, 2025.
File: arxiv.2512.00870
Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Nitin Nayak, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
OptiMA: A Transaction-Based Framework with Throughput Optimization for Very Complex Multi-Agent Systems, arXiv , vol. 2511.03761, 2025.
File: arxiv.2511.03761
Sarika Jain, Bharat K. Bhargava, Deepshikha Kalra, and Sven Groppe,
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference: IHIC 2023., .... Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7190-5
ISBN:9789819771905
File: 978-981-97-7190-5
Jinghua Groppe, Nitin Nayak, Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, and Sven Groppe,
"QC4DB: Beschleunigung von relationalen Datenbankmanagementsystemen durch Quantenrechner Teilvorhaben: Datenbank Optimierungen (DBOpt)" Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025.
File: 24530
Tobias Winker, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
QCardEst/QCardCorr: Quantum Cardinality Estimation and Correction, arXiv , vol. 2509.08817, 2025.
File: ARXIV.2509.08817
Nitin Nayak, Alexandru Prisacaru, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
Quantum-Enhanced Transaction Scheduling with Reduced Complexity via Solving QUBO Iteratively using a Locking Mechanism, in 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications (Q-Data), Berlin, Germany , 2025.
File: 3736393.3736701
Valter Uotila, Soror Sahri, and Sven Groppe,
Utilizing Quantum Computing to Improve the Quality of Data, in The 29th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Tampere, Finland , 2025.
File: 978-3-032-05281-0_19
Hasnain Sikora, Shridevi Krishnakumar, and Sven Groppe,
Weather forecasting using quantum-based LSTM: A comparative analysis, Results in Engineering , vol. 28, 2025. Elsevier BV.
File: j.rineng.2025.107995

2024

Simon Paasche, and Sven Groppe,
On the Potential of Sustainable Software Solutions in Smart Manufacturing Environments, in Semantic Intelligence , Springer Nature Singapore, Dec.2024, pp. 25–32.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3
File: 978-981-97-7356-5_3
Sylvio Barbon Junior, Paolo Ceravolo, Sven Groppe, Mustafa Jarrar, Samira Maghool, Florence Sèdes, Soror Sahri, and Maurice Van Keulen,
Are Large Language Models the New Interface for Data Pipelines?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, Santiago, Chile , Association for Computing Machinery, 2024.
File: 3663741.3664785
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Fatima Zahra Amara, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Sanju Tiwari, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Jinghua Groppe, Soror Sahri, Farah Benamara, and Sven Groppe,
Research Trends for the Interplay between Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The International Workshop on Data Management Opportunities in Unifying Large Language Models + Knowledge Graphs (LLM+KG), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: LLM+KG-9.pdf
M. A. Jabbar, Sanju Tiwari, Fernando Ortiz-Rodríguez, Sven Groppe, and Tasneem Bano Rehman,
Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics: 6th International Conference, AMLDA 2023, Lübeck, Germany, November 9–10, 2023, Revised Selected Papers., .... Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
ISBN:9783031554865
File: 978-3-031-55486-5
Valter Uotila, Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Workshop Summary of the Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM), in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24) , 2024.
File: QDSM.1.pdf
T. Kar, P. Kanungo, Sachi Nandan Mohanty, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Video Shot-boundary detection: Issues, challenges and solutions, Artificial Intelligence Review , vol. 57, no. 4, 2024.
File: s10462-024-10742-1
Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Farah Benamara, Sven Groppe, and Soror Sahri,
Towards Generating High-Quality Knowledge Graphs by Leveraging Large Language Models, in The 29th Annual International Conference on Natural Language \& Information Systems (NLDB 2024), Turin, Italy , 2024.
File: 978-3-031-70239-6_31
Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe, Daniel Senf, and Ralf Möller,
There Are Infinite Ways to Formulate Code: How to Mitigate the Resulting Problems for Better Software Vulnerability Detection, Information , vol. 15, no. 4, 2024.
File: info15040216
Sven Groppe, and Sarika Jain,
The Way Forward with AI-Complete Problems, New Generation Computing , 2024.
File: s00354-024-00251-8
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Jinghua Groppe, Jessica Lückert, Sanju Tiwari, and Sven Groppe,
Assessing the Impact of Government Policies on Covid-19 Spread: A Machine Learning Approach, in 10th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2024.
Sven Groppe, Sarika Jain, and Bharat K. Bhargava,
Semantic Intelligence, Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava, Eds. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024, pp. 25–32.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3
ISBN:9789819773565
File: 978-981-97-7356-5_3
Bibtex: BibTeX
@book{SemanticIntelligence2023,
 title = {Semantic Intelligence},
 editor = {Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava},
 year = {2023},
 publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7126-6}
}
Martin Vogrin, Rok Vogrin, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Supervised Learning on Relational Databases with Quantum Graph Neural Networks, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: QDSM.5.pdf
Benjamin Warnke, Kevin Martens, Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Prasad Adhiyaman, Sruthi Srinivasan, and Shridevi Krishnakumar,
ReJOOSp: Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimization in SPARQL, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC) , vol. 8, no. 7, 2024.
File: bdcc8070071
Maja Franz, Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Hype or Heuristic? Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimisation, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) , 2024. pp. 409-420.
File: QCE60285.2024.00055
Nitin Nayak, Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Quantum Join Ordering by Splitting the Search Space of QUBO Problems, Datenbank-Spektrum , vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 21-32, 2024.
File: s13222-024-00468-3
Zeinab Sadat Rabani, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Shirin Abdollahzade, Sven Groppe, and Javad Ghofrani,
Developers’ Perspective on Trustworthiness of Code Generated by ChatGPT: Insights from Interviews, in Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMLDA 2023), Lübeck, Germany , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 215–229.
File: 978-3-031-55486-5_16
Fatima Zahra Amara, Sven Groppe, Sanju Tiwari, Mounir Hemam, and Meriem Djezzar,
Exploring the Determinants of Semantic Internet of Things in Healthcare, in Roles and Challenges of Semantic Intelligence in Healthcare Cognitive Computing , IOS Press, 2024.
ISBN:9781643684611
File: SSW230026
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Nilufar Ranji, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Jinghua Groppe, Farah Benamara, and Sven Groppe,
Construction and Canonicalization of Economic Knowledge Graphs with LLMs, in International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 334–343.
ISBN:9783031812217
File: 978-3-031-81221-7_23
Paolo Ceravolo, Tiziana Catarci, Marco Console, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Sven Groppe, Katja Hose, Jaroslav Pokorný, Oscar Romero, and Robert Wrembel,
moduli: A Disaggregated Data Management Architecture for Data-Intensive Workflows, SIGWEB Newsl. , vol. 2024, no. Winter, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.
File: 3643603.3643607
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
QCE'24 Tutorial: Quantum Annealing - Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, arXiv , vol. arXiv:2411.04638, 2024.
File: 2411.04638
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Quantum Annealing: Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montréal, Québec, Canada , 2024.

2023

Simon Paasche, and Sven Groppe,
Poster: Handling Inconsistent Data in Industry 4.0, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS'23), Neuchatel, Switzerland , New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. pp. 180–181.
ISBN:9798400701221
File: 3583678.3603281
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Paasche2023InconsistentData,
author = {Simon Paasche and Sven Groppe},
title = {Poster: Handling Inconsistent Data in Industry 4.0},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '23)},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701221},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3583678.3603281},
pages = {180–181},
location = {Neuchatel, Switzerland}
}
Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe, and Ralf Möller,
Variables are a Curse in Software Vulnerability Prediction, in The 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Panang, Malaysia , 2023.
File: 978-3-031-39847-6_41
Benjamin Warnke, Stefan Fischer, and Sven Groppe,
Using Machine Learning and Routing Protocols for Optimizing Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration, Computers , vol. 12, no. 10, 2023.
File: computers12100210
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{Warnke2023UsingMLDistributed,
  author = {Benjamin Warnke and Stefan Fischer and Sven Groppe},
  title = {Using Machine Learning and Routing Protocols for Optimizing Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration},
  journal = {Computers},
  volume = {12},
  year = {2023},
  number = {10},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12100210}
}
Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, and Ching-Hsien Hsu,
Third International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), in Companion of the 2023 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
File: 3555041.3590821
Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Jiaheng Lu, Maja Franz, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Quantum Machine Learning: Foundation, New Techniques, and Opportunities for Database Research, in Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) , 2023.
File: 3555041.3589404
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{SIGMOD23Tutorial,
author = {Tobias Winker and Sven Groppe and Valter Uotila and Zhengtong Yan and Jiaheng Lu and Maja Franz and Wolfgang Mauerer},
title = {Quantum Machine Learning: Foundation, New Techniques, and Opportunities for Database Research},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
location = {Seattle metropolitan area, Washington, USA},
year = {2023},
pages = {},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3555041.3589404}
}
Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Le Gruenwald, and Sven Groppe,
Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
File: 3579142.3594299
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Winker2023QML_JOO,
	title = {Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits},
	author = {Tobias Winker and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Le Gruenwald and Sven Groppe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA},
	year = {2023},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579142.3594299}
}
Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, and Ching{-}Hsien Hsu,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, BiDEDE 2023, Seattle, WA, USA., .... ACM, 2023.
File: 3579142
Sarika Jain, Sven Groppe, and Nandana Mihindukulasooriya,
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC) 2022., .... Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.
File: 978-981-19-9090-8
Valter Uotila, Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Preface {QDSM}, in Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada , CEUR-WS.org, 2023.
File: QDSM1.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uotila2023QDSM,
	title = {Preface {QDSM}},
	author = {Valter Uotila and Sven Groppe and Le Gruenwald and Jiaheng Lu and Wolfgang Mauerer},
	booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases ({VLDB} 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada},
	year = {2023},
	url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/QDSM1.pdf}
}
Sven Groppe,
Renewal of the Major Fields of New-Generation Computing, New Gener. Comput. , pp. 1 - 2, 2023.
File: s00354-023-00206-5
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Frédéric Ieng, Morteza Ezzabady, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, and Farah Benamara,
Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKGs): Methodology, tools and applications, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2023, pp. 277--293.
File: pbpc063e_ch12
Simon Paasche, and Sven Groppe,
A Finite State Automaton for Green Data Validation in a Real-World Smart Manufacturing Environment with Special Regard to Time-Outs and Overtaking, Future Internet , vol. 15, no. 11, 2023.
File: fi15110349
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{Paasche2023StateAutomaton,
  author = {Simon Paasche and Sven Groppe},
  title = {A Finite State Automaton for Green Data Validation in a Real-World Smart Manufacturing Environment with Special Regard to Time-Outs and Overtaking},
  journal = {Future Internet},
  volume = {15},
  year = {2023},
  number = {11},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15110349}
}
Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Tobias Winker, Stefan Prestel, Farida Shagieva, Daanish Arya, Florian Preis, and Le Gruenwald,
Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules, Proc. VLDB Endow. , vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 2344--2353, 2023.
File: 3598581.3598603
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{Calıkyilmaz2023QC_QO_TSO,
	title = {Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules},
	author = {Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Sven Groppe and Jinghua Groppe and Tobias Winker and Stefan Prestel and Farida Shagieva and Daanish Arya and Florian Preis and Le Gruenwald},
	journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
	volume = {16},
	number = {9},
	pages = {2344--2353},
	year = {2023},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3598581.3598603}
}
Nitin Nayak, Jan Rehfeld, Tobias Winker, Benjamin Warnke, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, and Sven Groppe,
Constructing Optimal Bushy Join Trees by Solving QUBO Problems on Quantum Hardware and Simulators, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
File: 3579142.3594298
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Nayak2023QUBO_JOO,
	title = {Constructing Optimal Bushy Join Trees by Solving QUBO Problems on Quantum Hardware and Simulators},
	author = {Nitin Nayak and Jan Rehfeld and Tobias Winker and Benjamin Warnke and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Sven Groppe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA},
	year = {2023},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579142.3594298}
}
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Sanju Tiwari, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
Exploring In-Context Learning Capabilities of Foundation Models for Generating Knowledge Graphs from Text, CoRR , vol. abs/2305.08804, 2023.
File: arXiv.2305.08804
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Khorashadizadeh2023Text2KGInContextLearning,
	title = {Exploring In-Context Learning Capabilities of Foundation Models for Generating Knowledge Graphs from Text},
	author = {Hanieh Khorashadizadeh and Nandana Mihindukulasooriya and Sanju Tiwari and Jinghua Groppe and Sven Groppe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text (Text2KG) in conjunction with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023), Hersonissos, Greece},
	year = {2023},
        url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3447/Text2KG_Paper_9.pdf}
}