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The AI Council consists of 21 internationally renowned AI experts from science and industry. Its members set impulses for baiosphere activities and advise the Bavarian State Government on AI topics.
In addition, 7 internationally renowned experts from abroad act as ambassadors for AI made in Bavaria and support the baiosphere with their expertise from an international point of view.
© Andreas Heddergott / TUM
Executive Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Research interests and foci
Robotics; embodied AI; collective intelligence; machine learning; modeling the human body.
Most important awards and memberships:
© University of Augsburg
Chair of Multimodal Human-Technology Interaction, University of Augsburg
Research interests and foci
Human-technology interaction; multimodal analysis (physiological data, eye movements, speech, gestures); tangible and haptic user interfaces; interaction techniques for augmented realities; social-interactive virtual characters and robots
Most important awards and memberships:
© Klaus Ranger
Director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Chair of Ethics of Medicine and Health Technologies, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Research interests and foci
Biomedical and public health ethics, with special emphasis on the ethics of medical innovation and health technologies; research ethics, issues of solidarity and justice in contexts such as public health and health care, novel participatory approaches in biomedicine.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Private
Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Theory, Information Law and Legal Informatics, Head of the RobotLaw Research Unit, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Research interests and foci
Legal framework for autonomous systems and artificial intelligence; technology and media criminal law, in particular computer and Internet criminal law; medical and bio-criminal law; basic criminal law problems; international harmonization of law
Most important awards and memberships:
© Kempten University of Applied Sciences – Ralf Lienert
Professor of Automation Technology and Robotics, Vice President Teaching and Continuing Education, Kempten University of Applied Sciences
Research interests and foci
Factory automation and robotics, application of industrial robots, human-robot cooperation, AI application for industrial robots.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Jürgen Schabel
Chair of Cognitive Systems, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Research interests and foci
Hybrid artificial intelligence; Interpretable machine learning approaches, especially inductive programming; Explanatory interactive machine learning; Intelligent tutoring systems; AI in medical diagnostics.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Private
Holder of the Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Research interests and foci
Data Mining; Machine Learning; Data Science and Database Technology for AI; Process Mining.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Matthias Tunger Photodesign
Director of the Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center Professor of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems at the School of Computation, Information and Technology CIT , TUM; Scientific Director of HelmholtzAI Associate Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Research interests and foci
Development of machine and deep learning methods for the analysis and modeling of biomedical data, especially from single cell genomics.
Most important awards and memberships:
© German Aerospace Center
Director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, holder of the Chair for Sensor-Based Robot Systems and Intelligent Assistance Systems at the TU Munich
Research interests and foci
High-performance mechatronic systems, esp. Robots; AI methods for their intelligent operation; AI methods for natural, safe and efficient human-machine interfaces; application areas: Space, medicine, rehabilitation and care, automated and networked production, mobile autonomous systems for logistics, inspection and maintenance.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Bernd Müller/Fraunhofer AISEC
Head of the Chair “Security in Computer Science” at the Technical University of Munich, Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC in Garching
Research interests and foci
Technologies to assess and improve the cybersecurity of products, networked systems, and infrastructures; technologies to increase the resilience and robustness of systems against attacks.
Most important awards and memberships:
© David Ausserhofer
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Honorary Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the LMU Munich
Research interests and foci
Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Digitalization; Venture capital; Corporate strategies; Economic policy
Most important awards and memberships:
© Fraunhofer IIS; Paul Pulkert
Institute Director of Fraunhofer IIS, Chair of Analytics & Mixed-Integer Optimization at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Founding Vice President of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Technical University Nürnberg
Research interests and foci
Data analytics; AI algorithms, especially mathematical optimization with applications in energy management as well as production and logistics.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Fraunhofer IKS
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS and Chair of “Engineering Resilient Cognitive Systems” at the TU Munich
Research interests and foci
Cognitive Systems: Technical systems, machines and processes that use artificial intelligence to realize their functionality; Resilience: Technical systems that continue to function reliably even in the face of massive internal and external disturbances or influences; “Safe Intelligence”: Development of cognitive systems with guaranteed, safe functionality (e.g. autonomous driving, intelligent automated production, medical technology); Software Systems Engineering for Cognitive Systems
© Bavarian AI Agency
Chief Expert Software Siemens AG
Research interests and foci
Enterprise technology (automation, digitalization), especially software, data, AI and robotics in research and application; scaling via new business opportunities (platforms and ecosystems) and involvement especially of SMEs; standardization (automation, digitalization).
Most important awards and memberships:
© Roche
Head of Analytics at pRED D&A (Pharma Research and Early Development Data & Analytics) Roche Penzberg, AI expert in setting up the Fraunhofer site for immunology, infection and pandemic research in Penzberg.
Research interests and foci
Data analytics using AI to improve research and development of personalized medicine; analysis of high-dimensional data e.g. genomic data, electronic health record data, image data and sensor data; innovative healthcare solutions; companion diagnostics.
© Bavarian AI Agency
Vice President Engineering and Site Lead Google Engineering Center Munich, Google Germany GmbH
Research interests and foci
Privacy and Data Security; Sovereign Cloud and Cloud Security; Artificial Intelligence; Open Platforms and Ecosystems; Sustainability
Most important awards and memberships:
© IBM Corporation 2019
Head of IBM Watson Center Munich and IBM Innovation Studio EMEA, IBM Distinguished Engineer
Research interests and foci
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – especially AI & ethics, Human Friendly Automation; Digital Transformation; future IT trends and innovation; speaker and panelist at events, especially on the above topics; mentoring of (technical) employees inside and outside IBM.
Most important awards and memberships:
© Volkswagen AG
Director AI Research and Head of Machine Learning Research Lab, Volkswagen Group, Munich; Research Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Research interests and foci
probabilistic deep learning; robotics; optimal control and reinforcement learning; computational neuroscience
Most important awards and memberships:
© BMW
Vice President Business Line My Journey & Head of projectAI BMW Group
Research interests and foci
Connected Company: development and operation of geo-based services, services for electromobility; technologies: computer vision, machine learning, processing of geospatial information, natural language understanding, software development
Most important awards and memberships:
Bavarian AI Agency
c/o Forum der Zukunft
Museumsinsel 1
80538 Munich
Tel. 089/2190994-0
Fax 089/2190994-99
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