Prof. Dr. Roland Müller

Department of Business and Economics

Professor of Information Systems

Postal address
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Badensche Straße 52

10825 Berlin

Visiting address
Campus Schöneberg
Building B, Room B 4.23
Badensche Straße 50-51
10825 Berlin

Since October 2010 Professor of Information Systems, especially Business Intelligence, Berlin School of Economics and Law and

Since 2014 also Academic Director of the Master Programme “Business Intelligence and Process Management”

Since 2010 Visiting Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands

2010–2016 Coach and Visiting Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute, School of Design Thinking, Potsdam

2006–2010 Assistant Professor for Knowledge Management and Information Services, Department of Information Systems and Change Management, School of Management and Governance, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Consulted global companies like SAP, Daimler, Siemens, BMW, Bundesdruckerei, and Deutsche Bahn, as well as varied small and medium-sized companies

Member of the advisory board for the startup Distimo (acquired by App Annie, now the worldwide market leader of mobile app store analytics)

Co-Founder and Lead Architect of the Web 2.0 Podcast Portal SPEECHA

IT Consultant for Business Intelligence, Scopeland Software Inc., San Francisco, USA

Senior Researcher in the EU Project PARMENIDES: Ontology Driven Temporal Text Mining on Organisational Data for Extracting Temporal Valid Knowledge

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Free University of Berlin, “Knowledge Sharing and Trading on Electronic Marketplaces“, (summa cum laude)

Master in Economics (Diplom Volkswirt), Free University of Berlin, with honors (Top 1% of the Graduating Class)

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Ontology Construction

AI-supported Literature Reviews

Data Thinking

Open Science and Science 2.0

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Big Data (Scholarly datasets used in my Big Data course includes Alpha Vantage Stock Market API)

Research Methods

Text Analytics

Marketing Analytics

From Design Thinking to Data Thinking

Augmented Creative Intelligence

Open Theory and Open Knowledge in the Shared Economy

Information Extraction of Causal Claims with Natural Language Processing

Using Large Language Models for Ontology Construction

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Generative AI for Business

Data Thinking

User-driven Innovation with Design Thinking and Lean Startup

Neuro-symbolic AI approaches combining deep learning and knowledge graphs for helping to better understand scientific literature

Open Science & Science 2.0

Complete Publication List in Google Scholar (~ 100 Publications)

Huettemann, S., Mueller, R. M., Larsen, K.R., Dinter, B. (2023). How Best to Hunt a Mammoth - Toward Automated Knowledge Extraction From Graphical Research Models. Proceedings of the Wirtschaftsinformatik 2023 Conference (WI).

Thoring, K., Huettemann, S., Mueller, R. M. (2023). “The Augmented Designer: A Research Agenda for Generative AI-enabled Design”,
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED23)

Ebert, L., Huettemann, S., Mueller, R. M. (2023). “Hey Article, What Are You About? Question Answering for Information Systems Articles through Transformer Models for Long Sequences”, Proceedings of the 56thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Thoring, K., & Mueller, R. M. (2023). The agile landscape of design thinking. In Research Handbook on Design Thinking (pp. 80-101). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Schwarz, D., List, M., Mueller, R. M.  (2023). “A Framework for the Systematic Evaluation of Data and Analytics Use Cases at an Early Stage”, Proceedings of the 56thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Thoring, K., Mueller, R. M., Klöckner H. (2023). “Mind the Future Gap: Introducing the FOD Framework for Future-Oriented Design”, Proceedings of the 56thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Thoring, K., Mueller, R. M., Lecuna, A., Badke-Schaub, P. (2023). “A Framework of Method Corroboration”, Proceedings of the 56thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Mueller, R. M., Huettemann, S., Larsen, K.R. Yan, S., Handler, A. (2022). “Toward an Information Systems Ontology”. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST)

Schaal, M., Davis, E., Mueller, R. M. (2022). “Multi-National Topics Maps for Parliamentary Debate Analysis”. Proceedings of the 55thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Thoring, K., Klöckner, H., Mueller, R. M. (2022). “Designing the Future With the “Delphi Design Sprint”: Introducing a Novel Method for Design Science Research”, Proceedings of the 55thHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

Thoring, K., Mueller, R. M., Desmet, P., & Badke-Schaub, P (2022). “Toward a Unified Model of Design Knowledge”, Design Issues, 38 (2), 17-32

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Twente, The Netherlands

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Jheronimus Academy of Data Science

Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI) School of Design Thinking, Potsdam