Jan Eric Lenssen

Jan Eric Lenssen is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics leading the Geometric Representation Learning Group, and a Founding Engineer at Kumo.ai. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science from TU Dortmund University (2022) and has conducted research internships at Facebook Reality Labs and Nnaisense.

• Affiliations: ELLIS Unit Faculty Member and Saarland Informatics Campus Fellow
• Education: PhD under Prof. Heinrich Müller, TU Dortmund (2022)

His research focuses on differentiable algorithms, neural fields, and graph-based methods for 3D perception and generative modeling. Key contributions include frameworks like SplineCNN, PyTorch Geometric, and methods for scalable 3D reconstruction, human-object interaction modeling, and relational deep learning.

Publications span top venues (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS) with highlights including Best Paper Honorable Mention (ECCV 2022) and Best Paper Award (BIOSIGNALS 2018). He co-founded the RelBench benchmark for relational database learning and leads development of geometric deep learning tools.

Key Labs/Teams: Geometric Representation Learning Group (MPI), Kumo.ai Research Team, and the Computer Vision and Machine Learning department at MPI.