It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts
to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
– Sherlock
Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia
About
I am a Full Professor at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at University of Duisburg-Essen.
I have been excited about all flavours of machine learning for a long time. In particular, I am passionate about bridging the gap between algorithmics and the human. I strongly believe that algorithms should be designed in a way that tightly integrates the user and her mental models of her material world, and the (immaterial) data collected to describe it; Artificial intelligences should be able to explain their reasoning and basis of decision making to end users — in a way that relates to their physical reality and that they can understand. In consequence, my research is characterised by interdisciplinarity and a broad range of application areas. My core research interests are explainable machine learning, and data mining, as well as intersections with human-computer interaction, information visualization, and information retrieval; detours include natural language processing and technology enhanced learning. My publication list gives an impression of how my research interests evolved. Today, it includes 97 peer-reviewed papers, 11 journal articles and 5 book chapters that mark different stages of my scientific (and personal) development.
I hold a Ph.D. from the Technical University
Graz, Austria (Thesis Topic: Visually Supported Supervised Machine
Learning) and a diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in computer science from the
Technical University Chemnitz,
Germany.
CV
- current
- Full Professor, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Guest Associate Professor, Data Science Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands - 2018 - 2020
- Assistant Professor, Data Science Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- 10/2017 - 02/2018
- Full Professor of Complex and Intelligent Systems Engineering (Interim, Vertretungsprofessur), University of Passau, Germany
- 04 - 09/2016
- Guest Professor, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- 2012 - 2017
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor, Chair of Data Science (formerly Media Computer Science), University of Passau, Germany. EU FP7 EEXCESS, EU FP7 CODE.
- 2012
- Ph.D. (Dr. techn.), Institute for Knowledge Management, Technical University Graz, Austria
- 2007 - 2012
- Research Associate, Technical University Graz, and Know-Center GesmbH, Graz, Austria. FIT-IT Projekt DYONIPOS, EU FP7 Project Aposdle.
- 2004 - 2007
- Research and Project Assistant, Joanneum Research GesmbH, Graz, Austria. EU FP6 MACS, EU FP6 MOBVIS.