Kilian Theil

Kilian Theil is a Researcher at the University of Mannheim's Data and Web Science Group, part of the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics. His work bridges artificial intelligence with behavioral economics and financial analysis, focusing on linguistic uncertainty detection, risk prediction from text, and ethical implications of smart cities. He has contributed to agent-based traffic simulations and computational social science research.

His research interests include analyzing CEO speech transcripts to predict risk impact, causal effects of linguistic uncertainty on investment behavior, and simulating socio-economic effects of parking policies. He has published in venues such as the AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media and the Social Informatics conference.

As an educator, he has taught courses on AI in industry, social simulation, natural language processing, and computer-based content analysis. He supervises master and bachelor students in projects like measuring corporate alignment with sustainability goals and modeling dynamic pricing for urban parking.

His supplementary materials include datasets and code from projects on financial uncertainty detection, risk prediction from event transcripts, and financial dialogue modality analysis.