Ulli Waltinger studied multimedia arts at University London Middlesex (B.A.) and interdisciplinary media studies (M.Sc.) at Bielefeld University. Since 2008 he has been working as a researcher for the DFG-funded research project SFB-673 "Alignment in Communication on Multimodal Alignment Corpora - Statistical Modelling and Information Management" at the text technology department, Bielefeld University. From 2007 to 2008 he worked for the German Research Foundation (DFG) / Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS) on the development, testing and evaluation of content based peer2peer-agents for thematic structure and search optimization in digital libraries.
His research interests include machine learning, text classification, social tagging and digital library services.