Dr. Ricardo Kawase leads a team of Data Scientists and Engineers mobile.de GmbH/Adevinta, the leading online automotive marketplace in Germany. His team is responsible for topics such fraud fighting/prevention, price prediction, user profiling, customer behavior prediction and personalization. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science (Doctor rerum naturalium, Dr. rer. nat.) from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. Before joining mobile.de he worked as a researcher for over 7 years at the L3S Research center in Hannover on several topics such as data mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, social networks, crowdsourcing and Web science in general. He has written, collaborated, and published over 60 peer reviewed academic articles, and serves as a reviewer in several conferences and journals.