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Johannes Wienke is a researcher whose work spans experimental robotics, human-robot interaction, and robotic software systems. He has made significant contributions to the infrastructure and reproducibility of robotic research, most notably through his work on the Robotics Service Bus (RSB), a message-oriented, event-driven middleware designed to integrate diverse robotic components through an open and scalable architecture — a paper that has garnered 78 citations and remains a cornerstone reference in the field. Wienke has also been instrumental in advancing human-robot interaction research, contributing to several notable datasets and corpora. The RAVEL corpus (35 citations) and the Vernissage corpus (33 citations) provide richly annotated multimodal data for training and benchmarking robots in real conversational scenarios involving multiple human participants. His work on engagement-based multi-party dialog further demonstrates his interest in socially intelligent robotics. More recently, Wienke has tackled the challenge of software reliability in robotic systems, developing novel data-driven fault detection methods for component-based architectures, with dedicated datasets supporting reproducible research in this area. His broader contributions to the Cognitive Interaction Toolkit reflect a sustained commitment to improving experimental reproducibility — a critical, if often overlooked, dimension of advancing robotics science.