Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at KIT, Germany.

He is a former president of the Semantic Web Science Association,[4] an STI International Fellow, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards.

[2] From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at IBM Germany, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems.

Rudi Studer was also director in the department Information Process Engineering at and one of the presidents of the Research Center for Information Technology as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that developed semantic applications.

[citation needed] His research interests span over the main topics important for semantic web technology, including knowledge management, knowledge engineering, ontology management, data and text mining, and semantic web services.