Kristian Kersting

Kristian Kersting is a Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, and affiliated with Fraunhofer IAIS. His research focuses on Statistical Relational Learning, Machine Learning, and their applications in Robotics and Computational Biology. He earned his PhD from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg under Luc De Raedt and was a postdoc at MIT's CSAIL.

Award highlights include the ECCAI 2006 Dissertation Award and ECML-06 Best Paper Award. He has supervised numerous students, including those working on relational sequence alignments and robotics navigation policies. He co-organized key workshops like MLG-2007 and served on program committees for ECML/PKDD, ICML, and AAAI.

His contributions span probabilistic logic learning, including Bayesian Logic Programs and Logical Hidden Markov Models. Recent work includes neuro-symbolic systems, causal reasoning, and benchmarks in emotion detection and AI safety.