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Who is Working in AI at LMU?
An overview of professors and associated research groups studying different aspects of AI at LMU.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Bischl
Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science
Research interests: AutoML, Model Selection, Interpretable ML, Development of Statistical Software.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius
Chair of Communication Science
Research interests: Political Communication, Health Communication, Digitalization of Media, Media Psychology
Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz
Chair for Human-Computer-Interaction
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Desktop, Multimodal and Physical Interaction, Intelligent User Interfaces, Human-Robot Interaction, Explainable and Understandable UI+AI
Prof. Dr. Christian Böhm
Research interests: Unsupervised Machine Learning like Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction, Representation Learning with Applications to Medical Imaging; New Methods of High-Performance Machine Learning like Parallelization, Vectorization and Cache-Efficiency
Prof. Chris Donkin, Ph.D.
Bavarian AI Chair for Cognitive Psychology
Research interests: Interested in cognitive psychology, particularly in developing and testing computational and mathematical models of cognitive processes
Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier
Professor of Organizational Economics
Research interests: Economics of Organizations, Industrial Economics, Contract Theory, Behavioral Economics, Political Economcis, Experimental Economics
Prof. Dr. Oliver Falck
Research interests: How Policy can Promote Competitiveness and Innovation, How Technological Progress Affects The Economy and Society, Empirical Methods of Counterfactual Impact Analysis, AI with Unconventional (Big) Data.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel
Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management
Research interests: AI for Businesses, Public Organizations, and Health Management
Prof. Dr. Daniel Gruen
Bavarian AI Chair for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: Extragalactic Surveys, Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing Effect, Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Mario Haim
Chair of Communication Science, especially Computational Communication Research
Research interests: Political Communication, Computational Journalism, Algorithmic Curation in Media Environments, Computational Methods
Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann
Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of AI, Bayesian Cognitive Science, Formal Epistemology, Social Epistemology
Prof. Dr. Ines Helm
Research interests: Applied Economics and Labor Economics, How Shocks like Technological progress Affect Local Labor Markets, Applied Methods in Economics
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess
Director of the Institute for Digital Management and New Media, LMU Munich School of Management
Research interests: Potential of ML-Based Solutions for New Products, New Customer Interfaces and New Business Processes
Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier
Bavarian AI Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Research interests: His research interests are centered around methods and theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty.
Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel
Professor of Seismology/Geophysics
Research interests: Computational Seismology, Seismic Inverse Problems, Seismic Data Processing, Seismic Instrumentation, Elastic Wave Propagation, Earthquake Physics
Prof. Dr. Michael Ingrisch
Research interests: Advanced Statistics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Techniques in the Context Of Clinical Radiology, AI-Supported Diagnosis and Prognostication
Prof. Dr. Enrique Jiménez
Head of Electronic Babylonian Literature Group
Research interests: Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Ancient Near Eastern Science, Akkadian grammar, Digital Humanities
Prof. Dr. Göran Kauermann
Chair of Applied Statistics in Social Sciences, Economics and Business
Research interests: Network Data Analysis; Advanced Regression Models; Quantification of Uncertainty; Statistical Reasoning in Political Sciences, Historical Sciences, Epidemiology, Economics and Business; Data science in General
Prof. James Kirby, Ph.D.
Bavarian AI Chair of Spoken Language Processing
Research interests: Sound Change, Computational and Statistical Methods in Phonetics, Tone and Register, Language and Music, Languages of Southeast Asia
Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz
Director of the Professorship of Digital Services and Sustainability
Research interests: Managing AI Projects, Building and Maintaining an AI Factory, Human-AI Interaction, Managing AI Ethics
Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter
Chair of Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities (SODA)
Research interests: Fairness in Automated Decision Making, Data Quality, Training Data Reliability, Inference, Privacy, AI Research Infrastructure
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuhr
Project Leader Experimental Flavor Physics
Research interests: AI Applications in Particle Physics, Generative Models for Fast Simulations, Graph Neural Networks for Event Classification
Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: Applied Harmonic Analysis, Compressed Sensing, Explainability of Deep Neural Networks, AI-Based Approaches to Imaging Science, High-Dimensional Data Science, Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning, and Applications of AI to Life Sciences, Robotics, and Telecommunication
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Landry
Professor of Medical Physics Research Group at the Department of Radiation Oncology
Research interests: Deep Learning, Image Registration, Imaging Science, Image Guided Therapy via MR-linac Technology, Radiation Therapy
Prof. Dr. Hannes Leitgeb
Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language, Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics
Prof. Dr. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Chair for Mobile and Distributed Systems, Institute of Informatics
Research interests: Quantum Computing, Quantum Software, Quantum Machine Learning, (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Systems, Federal and Distributed Learning, Anomaly Detection and Uncertainty, Ubiquitous Computing
Prof. Dr. Christian List
Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: Decision Theory, Social Choice Theory, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Metaphysics, Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer
Bavarian AI Chair and Head Of The Machine Vision & Learning Group
Research interests: Semantic Image and Video Understanding based on (Deep) Machine Learning, Generative Approaches For Visual Synthesis, Invertible Deep Models For Explainable AI, Deep Metric and Representation Learning, Self-Supervised Learning Paradigms and their Interdisciplinary Applications in the Digital Humanities and Neuroscience
Prof. Dr. Katia Parodi
Chair of Experimental Physics – Medical Physics
Research interests: Application of AI in medical physics with focus on new technologies and workflows of image- and dose-guided radiotherapy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl
Research interests: Public Economics, Taxation and Redistribution, Inequality, Macroeconomic Expectations
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank
Bavarian AI Chair of AI and Computational Linguistics
Research interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, domain adaptation, multilingual NLP, multitask learning, transfer learning, parsing, sequence tagging, opinion mining, information extraction, NLP for social media
Prof. Dr. Lode Pollet
Chair for Quantum Matter Theory
Research interests: Strongly Correlated Systems, Ultracold Atomic Gases, Supersolids, Topological Phases, Computational Physics, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt
Head of Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media Group
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computer Systems, Media Technology, Robotics
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schubert
Research Group Spatial Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: Sequentiell Planning and Reinforcement Learning, Spatial Analytics in dynamic Environment, Remote Sensing, Game Analytics
Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze
Chair of Computational Linguistics Director, Center for Information and Language Processing
Research interests: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Representation Learning, Multilinguality, Human-AI Cooperation
Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl
Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining
Research interests: Clustering, Process Mining, Remote Sensing & Imaging, Active Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Machine Learning with limited labeled data, (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning with Knowledge Basis, Semi-/Supervised Natural-Language-Processing
Prof. Dr. Neil Thurman
Professor of Communication with an emphasis on Computational Journalism
Research interests: Computational Journalism, Automated Journalism, Natural Language Generation, Audience Perceptions, News Recommender Systems, News Personalization, Event Detection, Social Media Monitoring
Prof. Dr. Paul W. Thurner
Chair of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis
Research interests: Electoral Research, Discrete Choice Analysis & Network Analysis, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Defence and Security Policy, Transgovernmental Administrative Cooperation
Prof. Dr. Volker Tresp
Professor of Cognitive Deep Learning
Research interests: Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs and Scene Graphs, Statistical Relational Learning, Cognitive Models for Perception and Memory, Multimodal Learning and Lifelong Learning, Learning Medical Decision Support, Quantum Machine Learning
Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa
Professor of Media Anthropology and Program in Media Anthropology and Digital Studies
Research interests: Digital Politics, Politics of Artificial Intelligence, Global Digital Cultures, Online Extreme Speech and Hate Speech, News and Journalism, Urban Politics, and Media Policy.
Prof. Dr. Jochen Weller
Head of Physical Cosmology Research Group
Research interests: Physical Cosmology, Dark Energy, Galaxy Clusters, Cosmic Microwave Background, Modified Gravity, Dark Matter, Large-Scale Structure, AI Methods
Prof. Dr. Joachim Winter
Chair of Empirical Economic Research
Research interests: Individual Decision-Making, in particular Saving, Portfolio and Insurance Choices; The Design and Analysis of Household Surveys; The Effects of Shocks and Interventions in Childhood
Prof. Dr. Mark Zöller
Research interests: German, European and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Commercial Criminal Law, Police Law, Law of Intelligence Services, Data protection law of Security Services, Terrorism and Political Extremism, Legal Aspects of Digitalization