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Information Systems and Energy Efficient Systems

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Dr. Konstantin Hopf

Room: WE5/02.062

Phone: +49 951 863 2236

Email: konstantin.hopf(at)uni-bamberg.de

Consultation hours by appointment

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Academic Career

  • 2019 - today: Research Group Leader and Lecturer (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at the Chair of Information Systems and Energy Efficient Systems, University of Bamberg
  • April 2019: PhD defense with grade summa cum laude; topic of the dissertation: "Predictive Analytics for Energy Efficiency and Energy Retailing"
  • 2018 (Feb - Apr): Teaching and research stay at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization
  • 2014 - 2019: Senior Analyst and PhD student at the Information Systems and Energy Efficient Systems Group, University of Bamberg and member of the Bits-to-Energy Lab, a joint research initiative of ETH Zurich, University of Bamberg, and the University of St. Gallen (www.bits-to-energy.ch)
  • 2014 - 2015: Information Systems (M. Sc.), University of Bamberg
  • 2012 - 2013: Foreign semester at University of Sk?vde, Sweden
  • 2010 - 2014: Information Systems (B. Sc.), University of Bamberg
    (The Bachelor's thesis received first place in the IT Cluster Oberfranken e.V. graduation award.)

Selected university activities

  • Development and responsibility of the master courses "Business Intelligence & Analytics" (EESYS-BIA-M, V/?, 6 ECTS, winter term), "Data-driven Decision Support" (EESYS-DDS-M, V/?, 6 ECTS, summer term), master seminar "Platforms of Human-AI Collaboration" (WS 2020/21, 3 ECTS)

  • Supervision of over 90 Bachelor's and Master's theses, as well as student project papers in the Information Systems programs at the University of Bamberg

  • Representative of the scientific staff of the Faculty WIAI in the Faculty Council and the Mittelbau-Konvent (2017-2019 and 2019-2021)

  • Lectureship for the course "Business Analytics: Technologies, Methods, and Concepts" at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the course "Business Intelligence" for master programs Strategic Management and Consulting at CBS International Business School, Mainz (since summer term 2021)

Research Focus

  • Individual applications of (explainable) machine learning for decision support, e.g. energy retailing, energy efficiency, higher education teaching

  • Organizational value creation through (explainable) machine learning applications

  • Data work in companies

Awards and Honors

Selected Research Projects

Selected Research Contributions

Further publications can be found on the complete publication list of Dr. Konstantin Hopf.

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Hopf, K., Nahr, N., Staake, T., Lehner, F. (2025) The group mind of hybrid teams with humans and intelligent agents in knowledge-intense work. Journal of Information Technology 40(1), DOI 10.1177/02683962241296883.

Potthoff, U., Brudermueller, T., Hopf, K., & Wortmann, F. (2025). Optimization of heating curves for heat pumps in operation: Outdoor temperature ranges for energy-efficient heating curve shifts. Applied Energy, 389(125725), 1–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125725

Hopf, K., Müller, O., Thiess, T., Shollo, A. (2023). Organizational implementation of AI: Craft and mechanical work. California Management Review 66(1), DOI: 10.1177/00081256231197445, received the CMCE Research Award and the Urwick Prize in October 2024

Shollo, A., Hopf, K., Thiess, T., Müller, O. (2022). Shifting ML Value Creation Mechanisms: A process model of ML value creation. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 31(3), 101734. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2022.101734, received JSIS 2022 Best paper award in March 2023 and AIS Senior Scholars' Best Journal Paper on IS in December 2023

Weigert, A., Hopf, K., Günther, S. A., Staake, T. (2022). Heat pump inspections result in large energy savings when a pre-selection of households is performed: A promising use case of smart meter data. Energy Policy, 169, 113156. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113156

Hopf, K., Weigert, A., Staake, T. (2022). Value creation from analytics with limited data: a case study on the retailing of durable consumer goods. Journal of Decision Systems, published online April 07, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/12460125.2022.2059172

Hopf, K., Sodenkamp, M., Staake, T. (2018). Smart Meter Data Analytics for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in the Residential Sector. Electronic Markets, 28(4), DOI: 10.1007/s12525-018-0290-9, received the AIS SIGGREEN 2018 Best Journal Paper on Green IS award in December 2018

Hopf, K. (2018). Mining Volunteered Geographic Information for Predictive Energy Data Analytics. Energy Informatics, 1:4, DOI: 10.1186/s42162-018-0009-3

Conference articles (peer reviewed)

Rahlmeier, N., Hopf, K. (2024). Bridging Fields of Practice: How Boundary Objects Enable Collaboration in Data Science Initiatives.19. International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, September 17 - 19, Würzburg, received the WI'24 Best Paper Award.

Hopf, K., Joshi, M., Stelmazak, M., Shollo, A. (2024). Crafting Ever-Changing Data Products: Towards a Process Model of Data Work. 32. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'24), June 13 - 19, Paphos:Cyprus

Haag, F., Günther, S. A., Hopf, K., Handschuh, P. Klose, M., Staake, T. (2023). Addressing Learners' Heterogeneity in Higher Education: An Explainable AI-based Feedback Artifact for Digital Learning Environments. 18. International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik Septemberg 18 - 21, Paderborn, received the WI'23 Best Paper Award.

Hopf, K., Hartstang, H., Staake, T. (2023). Meta-Regression Analysis of Errors in Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting. International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics in companion with the 14. ACM e-Energy Conference, June 20, Orlando:Florida (USA)

Giacomazzi, E., Haag, F., Hopf, K. (2023). Short-term Electricity Load Forecasting Using the Temporal Fusion Transformer: Effect of Grid Hierarchies and Data Sources. 14. ACM e-Energy Conference, June 21-23, Orlando:Florida (USA) [Preprint]

Günther, S. A., Haag, F., Hopf, K., Klose, M., Handschuh, P., Staake, T. (2022). A feedback component that leverages counterfactual explanations for smart learning support: First insights into its empirical evaluation. Proceedings of the DiKuLe Symposium 2022 (forthcoming)

Haag, F., Hopf, K., Menelau Vasconcelos, P., Staake, T. (2022). Augmented Cross-Selling Through Explainable AI – A Case From Energy Retailing. 30. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'22), Timi?oara: Romania [Full-text]

Wastensteiner, J., Weiss, T. M., Haag, F., Hopf, K. (2021).  Explainable AI for Tailored Electricity Consumption Feedback – An Experimental Evaluation of Visualizations, 29. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'21), Marrakesh: Morocco / Virtual, June 14 – 12, [Full-text]

Fteimi, N., Hopf, K. (2021). Knowledge Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence - Developing an Integrative Framework, 29. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'21), Marrakesh: Morocco / Virtual, June 14 – 12 Juni [Full-text]

Weigert, A., Hopf, K., Weinig, N., Staake, T. (2020) Detection of heat pumps from smart meter and open data, 9. DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, Sierre, Schweiz,  October 29 – 30, In: Energy Informatics, 3(Suppl 1):21, DOI: 10.1186/s42162-020-00124-6

Stingl, C., Hopf, K., Staake, T. (2018). Explaining and predicting annual electricity demand of enterprises – A case study from Switzerland, 7. DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, Oldenburg, Germany, October 11 – 12, In: Energy Informatics, 1:50, DOI: 10.1186/s42162-018-0028-0

Hopf, K., Riechel, S., Sodenkamp, M., Staake, T. (2017). Predictive Customer Data Analytics – The Value of Public Statistical Data and the Geographic Model Transferability.38. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul: South Korea, December 10 – 13.

Hopf, K., Kormann, M., Sodenkamp, M., Staake, T. (2017). A Decision Support System for Photovoltaic Potential Estimation. ACM International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning 2017, Liverpool: UK, October 17 – 18, DOI: 10.1145/3109761.3109764.

Sodenkamp, M., Kozlovskiy, I., Hopf, K., Staake, T. (2017). Smart Meter Data Analytics for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in the Residential Sector. 13. Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik 2017, St. Gallen: Switzerland, February 12 – 15.

Hopf, K., Sodenkamp, M., Kozlovskiy, I. (2016). Energy Data Analytics for Improved Residential Service Quality and Energy Efficiency. 24. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'16), Istanbul: Turkey, June 12 – 15.

Kozlovskiy, I., Sodenkamp, M., Hopf, K., Staake, T. (2016). Energy Informatics for Environmental, Economic and Societal Sustainability: A Case of the Large-Scale Detection of Households with Old Heating Systems. 24. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'16), Istanbul: Turkey, June 12 – 15.

Hopf, K., Sodenkamp, M., Kozlovskiy, I., Staake, T. (2015) Household Classification Using Annual Electricity Consumption Data, presented as poster at 4. D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik Konferenz, Karlsruhe: Germany, November 12 – 13.

Hopf, K., Dagef?rde, F., Wolter, D. (2015). Identifying the Geographical Scope of Prohibition Signs, 12. International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Santa Fe: NM, USA, October 12 – 16. Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_12

Hopf, K., Sodenkamp, M., Kozlovskiy, I., Staake, T. (2014). Feature extraction and filtering for household classification based on smart electricity meter data, 3. D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik Konferenz 2014, Zurich, Switzerland, November 13 – 14. In: Computer Science - Research and Development 31 (3), pp. 141-148, DOI: 10.1007/s00450-014-0294-4

Monographs

Hopf, K. (2019). Predictive Analytics for Energy Efficiency and Energy Retailing. Dissertation, Contributions of the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg (36), University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg, DOI: 10.20378/irbo-54833

Software Libraries

Hopf, K., Weigert, A., Kozlovskiy, I., Staake, T. (2020). SmartMeterAnalytics: Methods for Smart Meter Data Analysis, Package for the Data Analytics Environment GNU R, https://cran.r-project.org/package=SmartMeterAnalytics

Hopf, K., Weigert, A., Weinig, N., Staake, T., (2020). ResidentialEnergyConsumption: Residential Energy Consumption Data, Package for the Data Analytics Environment GNU R, https://cran.r-project.org/package=ResidentialEnergyConsumption

Invited talks and workshops

  • Support retailing of renewable energy systems with (interpretable) machine learning, Guest lecture at the University of Passau, July 07, 2021
  • Predictive Analytics for Energy Efficiency and Energy Retailing, Brown-Bag Seminar Information Systems, University of Passau, June 18, 2019
  • Data analytics with R, Management workshop for utility company representatives, University of Bamberg, April 2018
  • Mining Volunteered Geographic Information for Predictive Energy Data Analytics, PhD Workshop 'Energy Informatics' prior to the 6. D-A-CH+ Energy Informatics Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, October 04, 2017
  • Predictive Analytics in Energy Retail, Doctoral Consortium during the 25. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in Guimar?es, Portugal, June 05, 2017
  • Lifting the value of customer data for marketing – Predictive analytics in energy retail, 9. BarCamp Nürnberg, Germany, May 13, 2017
  • Das Internet der Dinge – Experimente mit intelligenten Stromz?hlern, Workshop at Girls and Technology Day of the University of Bamberg, October 28, 2014
  • Heimat ohne fossile Energietr?ger realisieren (H.o.f.E.r.) - Raus aus dem Energiestrudel, Neumarkter Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz 2010, June 25, 2010
  • Raus aus dem Energiestrudel, 17. Symposium der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) und der Freunde und F?rderer des Zentrums für Umwelt und Kultur, Benediktbeuern, September 29, 2009