Leo Traeger

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Research Projects

(Ongoing) TABERTA: A Language Model for Dataset Discovery. Enas Khwaileh; Traeger, Leonard

(Ongoing) Retrieval Augmented Column-Table Learning. Traeger, Leonard; Enas Khwaileh (wonderful collaboration with Utrecht), Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George.

(2026/05) Scoper: Streamline Linkable Schemas for Matching. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. IEEE 42st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE Demo 2026) Accepted Scoper (Live Application) GitHub YouTube

(2025/07) Collaborative Scoping: Self-Supervised Linkability Assessment for Schema Matching. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2026) DOI:10.48786/edbt.2026.03 GitHub

(2025/02) Collective Scoping: Streamlining Entity Sets Towards Efficient and Effective Entity Linkages. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. Springer Nature Computer Science Volume 6 (SNCS 2025) DOI:10.1007/s42979-025-03734-7 GitHub

(2025/01) SEALM: Semantically Enriched Attributes with Language Models for Linkage Recommendation. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2025) DOI:10.5220/0013217700003929 GitHub

(2024/04) Scoping: Towards Streamlined Entity Collections for Multi-Sourced Entity Resolution with Self-Supervised Agents. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2024) Best Paper Award DOI:10.5220/0012607500003690 GitHub

(2023/07) Autonomous Object Detection and Landing with Parrot Rolling Spider in Matlab Simulink. Traeger, Leonard; Omar Faruque. International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical Systems & Applications (ESCS 2023) DOI:10.1109/CSCE60160.2023.00160 GitHub YouTube

(2022/12) Inteplato: Generating Mappings of Heterogeneous Relational Schemas using Unsupervised Learning. Traeger, Leonard; Behrend, Andreas; Karabatis, George. International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI 2022) DOI:10.1109/CSCI58124.2022.00083 GitHub

Teaching

Winter 2025/2026: Teaching Assistant for Databases I (Cologne UAS)

Summer 2025: Teaching Assistant for Databases II (Cologne UAS)

Spring 2025: Teaching Assistant for IS620 - Advanced Database Project (UMBC)

Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant for IS620 - Advanced Database Project (UMBC)

Winter 2024/2025: Lecturer I9PB-43021 - Programming Data Science (Dortumund UAS)

Winter 2023/2024: Lecturer I9PB-43021 - Programming Data Science (Dortmund UAS)

Spring 2023: Teaching Assistant for IS420 - Database Application Development (UMBC)

Fall 2022: Guest Lecture for IS722 - Systems and Information Integration (UMBC) on "Inteplato: Generating Mappings of Heterogeneous Relational Schemas"

Fall 2022: Teaching Assistant for IS420 - Database Application Development (UMBC)

Grants

DAAD HAW.International

2025

Conference Travel Grant

  • ICEIS 2025 in Porto (Portugal)

UMBC Graduate Student Association

2022

Conference Travel Grant

  • CSCI 2022 in Las Vegas (USA)

Fulbright Germany

2021

Graduate Scholarship

  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA)

Förderverein Gummersbach

2017

Studies Abroad Travel Funds

  • Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)