Patrick Mäder

Prof. Dr. Patrick Mäder is a University Professor and head of the Group of Data-intensive Systems and Visualization at TU Ilmenau's Department of Computer Science and Automation. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering for Safety-Critical Systems. His career includes doctoral research on software traceability (earning the Thuringian STIFT Prize), a Lise Meitner Fellowship at Johannes Kepler University Linz, and research stays at DePaul University Chicago.

• Bachelor/Master studies at TU Ilmenau
• PhD in 2005 on software traceability
• Postdoc at Johannes Kepler University Linz (2010-2012)

Research focuses on secure/reliable software systems, scalable machine learning, explainable AI, computational biology/ecology, and interdisciplinary projects like the award-winning Flora Incognita plant identification app. He has coordinated numerous third-party funded projects in software engineering and machine learning, expanding his team to 18 researchers by 2020.

Awards include the 2020 Thuringian Research Prize for applied research and the STIFT Prize for his dissertation on software traceability.