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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting

  • Education

    2006 Doctorate (supervisor: Prof. Luc De Raedt), Computer Science Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
    1994-2000 Degree Programme: Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2019-current Full Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2017-2019 Professor for Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2013-2017 Associate Professor for Data Mining, Department of Computer Science, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
    2012-2013 Junior Professor for Spatio-Temporal Pattern in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn, Germany
    2008-2012 Research group leader, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
    2007 Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT, USA

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2017-current Member and Deputy Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2015-2017 Founding Member and Co-Director of the Dortmund Center for Data-Based Media Analysis (DoCMA), Germany
    2014-2017 Member of the Commission for Teaching and Studies, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
    2014-2017 Member of the University Task Force “Internationales”, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
    2014-2017 Member of the University Council Commission for Research and Young Scientists, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
    2014-2017 Member of the Department Council, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
    2012-2013 Member of the Department Council, Department of Agriculture, University of Bonn, Germany

  • Commissions of Trust

    2023-current Member of the 'Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen', Germany
    2022-current Councilor, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), USA
    2021-current Secretary-Treasurer International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
    2020-current Member of the Selection Committee of Alexander von Humboldt Professorships
    2020-current Member, Research Council, University of Hamburg, Germany
    2020-current Member Advisory Board of the BMBF Project “KI Kampus”
    2020 Member, Working Group “Handling of Research Data”, Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen, Germany
    2018-current Co-Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers in Machine Learning and AI
    2018-current Member BMBF Expert Platform "Lernende Systeme"
    2018-current Co-chair or program committee member of 10 conferences
    Editor for journals
    2018-2021 Founding Editor-in-Chief Frontier in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    since 2013 Artificial Intelligence Journal
    since 2011 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    2017-2020 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    2011-2017 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
    since 2017 KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
    since 2011 Machine Learning Journal
    Regular reviewer for funding organizations:
    DFG, EU, ERC, NSF, GIF, SNSF, NWO, FWO, DAAD, AvH, Carl-Zeiss

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    Co-founding director of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), a 39 Mio EURO multi-university center.
    Scientific guidance respective project co-lead of Fourty-Two, a 25 Mio EURO AI data center infrastructure platform at hessian.AI/TU Darmstadt based on NVIDIA SuperPOD and GraphCore.
    2024 Fellow of the of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
    2024 Fellow of the Assoc. for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    2024 Best Paper at the ICLR Workshop on Naviagating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models (DPFM)
    2023 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Germany
    2022 Best Paper Workshop on Technology & Consumer Protection (ConPro)
    2019 Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)
    2019 Faculty of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
    2019 Fellow of ELLIS
    2019 Inaugural German AI Award (Deutscher KI-Preis)
    2019 Best Paper Award, ICML 2019 Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Models (TPM)
    2015 Best Paper Award, AAAI Conference on AI & Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
    2008 Fraunhofer ATTRACT research grant
    2006 Dissertation Award for the best AI dissertation in Europe, European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI, formerly ECCAI)

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