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Holger H. Hoos is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of AI at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands), and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He also serves as Faculty Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC.
- Affiliations: RWTH Aachen University, Universiteit Leiden, University of British Columbia
Research interests include methodological and technological advances in human-centred AI, AI for Good, and AI for All. His work focuses on improving AI efficiency and robustness, automated algorithm design (notably Programming by Optimisation and AutoML), and interdisciplinary applications of AI. He leads the AI Center at RWTH Aachen.
Scientific leadership includes roles as president of the European Association for AI (EurAI), co-founder of CLAIRE (now CAIRNE), and past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC). His book on Stochastic Local Search (with Thomas Stützle) remains a foundational text in the field.
Awards and recognition include:
- Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2021)
- Fellow of ACM, AAAI, and EurAI
- German AI Innovation Prize (2021) for CLAIRE and ELLIS
