Prof. Christopher Donkin, Ph.D. has been appointed as the new Bavarian AI Chair for Computational Modeling in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.  In his research he is interested in cognitive psychology, particularly in developing and testing computational and mathematical models of cognitive processes. He joins from the University of New South Wales in Australia.

How do you translate a language you don’t know? In some cases there is only a small amount of what you would call parallel data: exact translations of sentences, grammar, equivalent words. This complicates the work of computer scientists like Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser from the Center for Information and Language  Processing at LMU Munich. Using his ERC Starting Grant, Fraser studied languages without parallel data.

The newly appointed Bavarian AI chair holders at LMU, namely Prof. Chris Donkin, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel, Prof. Dr. Daniel Grün, Eyke Hüllermeier, Prof. James Kirby, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok, and Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer will introduce themselves and their research at this symposium, which takes place this Wednesday, June 1, at 18:30 in the Große Aula of LMU. A panel will then discuss the next generation of AI research from the different disciplinary perspectives, followed by a buffet.

The AIM@LMU Ringvorlesung by the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will feature five speakers in June: Prof. Dr. Daniel Gruen on "Artificial Intelligence for cosmological insights" (01.06.), Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok about "Towards Reliable AI: The Impact of Mathematics" (08.06.), Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank (15.06), Prof. Dr. Mario Haim about "AI and News Online: Production, Distribution and Use" (22.06.) and Dr. Chiara Gianoli  about "AI in Medical Physics" (29.06.)

Data science plays a major role in science, industry, and business, and close collaboration between all parties involved is necessary. The German Data Science Days (GDSD) offer the ideal platform to foster such collaboration, bringing together data scientists from various fields to create a forum for users and experts. The aim of the event is to identify and discuss new methods and fields of application and, moreover, to enhance the professional image of data scientists.

The German Data Science Days are organized by the elite master programme “Data Science” at LMU München in cooperation with the German Data Science Society (GDS) e.V.

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