Benno Stein

Benno Stein is a full professor of Web Technology and Information Systems at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, leading the Intelligent Information Systems Group. He chairs the Digital Bauhaus Lab, an interdisciplinary research center bridging Computer Science, Arts, and Engineering. His research focuses on symbolic AI principles applied to data/knowledge-intensive tasks, with contributions to information retrieval, data mining, computational linguistics, and engineering simulation.

Education: Studied at the University of Karlsruhe (1984-1989), earned his PhD (1995) and habilitation (2002) in Computer Science at the University of Paderborn. Professional roles include appointments at IBM Germany and the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley).

Research leadership includes founding the Art Systems Software Ltd (1996) and serving as scientific director. He co-chairs PAN and Touché conferences on digital text forensics and argument retrieval. Active in academic governance as spokesperson of the Digital Bauhaus Lab and on multiple scientific boards.

Recognized through scientific and commercial prizes for his innovations in simulation technology and AI-driven information systems.