جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Carl Vondrickمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Multimodal Perception
• +۱۱ مورد دیگر

Carl Vondrick is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research focuses on creating robust and versatile perception systems that leverage video and interaction with the natural world, with applications in 3D reconstruction, visual question answering, and robot manipulation. Former research scientist at Google Visiting researcher at Cruise Education: PhD (2017) from MIT, advised by Antonio Torralba BS (2011) from UC Irvine, advised by Deva Ramanan His research explores multimodal approaches for cross-task and cross-modal transfer, scene dynamics, audiovisual perception, interpretable models, and spatial awareness systems. The lab emphasizes zero-shot generalization and neuro-symbolic methods while addressing safety and robustness in AI systems. Key publication trends include: 2025: Video generation for robotics 2024: Differentiable rendering and cross-modal reasoning 2023: Robust perception and 3D modeling Scientific Awards: 2024 PAMI Young Researcher Award 2021 NSF CAREER Award Teaching Roles: Teaching Computer Vision II (2021-2025), Computer Vision I (2018-2019), and Representation Learning (2020-2022). Advising: Advises 8 current PhD students and has mentored 5 graduated students now at institutions like MBZUAI and UMD. The lab recruits 1-2 PhD students annually through Columbia’s PhD program. Grants and Collaborations: Funded by NSF, DARPA, Toyota Research Institute, Amazon Research, and Google.

Syed Hani Hassan Abidiمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Virology
• Immunology
• Viral Oncology
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Syed Hani Hassan Abidi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences , School of Medicine , Nazarbayev University , Kazakhstan. His research integrates virology , immunology , viral oncology , and bioinformatics , with a focus on HIV molecular epidemiology , viral evolution , and drug resistance . He has led international projects across Pakistan, Kenya, Afghanistan, and Kazakhstan, and is recognized for innovative teaching and MOOC development. Education: PhD in Virology and Immunology Research Interests: His laboratory employs bioinformatics (machine learning, AI), genomics , and proteomics to study HIV phylodynamics , viral co-infections , and oncogenic viruses like EBV in prostate cancer. He also explores microbiome-immunity interactions and designs antiviral drugs/vaccines . Recent Research Trends: His 2025 publications emphasize COVID-19 immunopathology , HIV/syphilis epidemiology in Pakistan , and particle physics contributions via ATLAS , showcasing interdisciplinary impact. Awards & Recognition: Outstanding Teachers Award (2019, Aga Khan University) Fellowship of Higher Education (UK, 2022) Teaching & Grants: He pioneered Pakistan’s first MOOC on Computer-Based Drug Discovery (2014) and received a 2022 SoTL grant for MOOC-based molecular biology education. His teaching integrates animations , films , and flipped classrooms . Collaborations & Labs: Leads projects on HIV drug resistance , HCV genomics in Kazakhstan , and AI-driven dementia diagnostics (Kazakh Brain Atlas). His lab collaborates with global institutions to advance viral disease surveillance and therapeutic innovation .

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Multimodal Learning
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) within the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. She concurrently holds a Visiting Associate Professor position in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and heads the NLP & Digital Humanities research unit at ILLC. An ELLIS Scholar, she earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Pembroke College. Her research has been funded by ERC, Innovate UK, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Google, Meta, and Deloitte. Her research spans natural language processing and machine learning, with core interests in: Few-shot learning for NLP Multilingual and cross-lingual systems Joint modeling of language and vision Cognitive processing and semantic representation Figurative language interpretation Computational social science applications Her recent publications (2024-2025) predominantly focus on multimodal learning, cultural alignment in AI, metaphor processing, and evaluation methodologies for language models. These works reflect a trend toward integrating cognitive science with multilingual systems and ethical considerations. Awards & Fellowships: ERC Consolidator Grant (2025) ELLIS Scholar Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023 Finalist for Outstanding Certification by TMLR Runner-up Best Paper Award at NAACL-HLT 2016 Research Leadership: She directs the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab, supervising 8 PhD students, 1 MSc student, and 34 alumni. Her projects include an ERC-funded initiative on globally accessible language technology and an AI Democratization grant for hate speech detection.

Stefanie Muellerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Computational Fabrication
• 3D Printing
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Stefanie Mueller is the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, with joint affiliation in Mechanical Engineering. She leads the HCI Engineering Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), focusing on advancing fabrication techniques through hardware/software innovations that enable novel object interactions. Develops computational fabrication methods combining photochromic dyes, lenticular lenses, birefringent materials, and optical illusions Co-chaired ACM CHI 2023 and ACM UIST 2020 program committees Recipients of 9 MIT EECS Best Undergraduate Researcher Awards among mentees Her research spans four key directions: Appearance-changing Objects: Photo-Chromeleon (ACM UIST 2019), Lenticular Objects (ACM UIST 2021), and Polagons (ACM CHI 2023) demonstrate reprogrammable surfaces through advanced materials and optical engineering. Tracking Systems: InfraredTags (ACM CHI 2022) and G-ID (ACM CHI 2020) enable passive object tracking via infrared markers and slicing artifacts. Embedded Sensing: MechSense (ACM CHI 2023) and Sprayable User Interfaces (ACM CHI 2020) integrate sensing capabilities into complex geometries. Curved Surface Prototyping: FlexBoard (ACM CHI 2023) and CurveBoard (ACM CHI 2020) develop specialized tools for non-planar electronics. Her recent publications focus on functionality segmentation (UIST 2023), fluorescent markers (UIST 2023), and machine-knitted haptics (UIST 2023). These works combine machine learning, material science, and interactive design principles to push fabrication boundaries. Scientific recognition includes: 2022 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 2020 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2019 ACM UIST Best Paper Award 2019 NSF CAREER Award 2018 MIT EECS Outstanding Educator Award 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science Mentoring 9 PhD students and over 20 master's students, her lab has produced 20+ publications at top HCI conferences. She redesigned MIT's 6.810 Engineering Interactive Technologies course during the pandemic, maintaining hands-on learning through home electronics kits and Slack-based collaboration.

• Behavioral Economics
• Inequality Origins
• Early Childhood Development
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Armin Falk is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, leading the BonnEconLab since 2004 and co-founding the briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality. He holds affiliations with the IZA, DIW, CEPR, and Max-Planck-Institut. His research focuses on behavioral economics, exploring how social preferences like fairness and trust influence decision-making, and investigates early childhood development's role in inequality. Falk has received prestigious awards, including the Leibniz Prize and Yrjö Jahnsson Award. His work combines lab experiments, field studies, and representative data analysis. Education includes a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich after studies in Economics, Philosophy, and History at the University of Cologne. Key research highlights include global climate action support studies (Nature Climate Change, 2024), socioeconomic disparities in child development (JPE, 2021), and global economic preferences surveys (QJE, 2018). He co-authored the book *Warum es so schwer ist, ein guter Mensch zu sein* to popularize behavioral economics. Awards include recognition for contributions to behavioral and development economics. Mentoring programs like *Balu und Du* aim to reduce educational inequality. His work bridges academic research with public discourse through media contributions and policy engagement.

Justus Thiesمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Graphics
• Computer Vision
• Neural Rendering
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Prof. Justus Thies is Full Professor for 3D Graphics & Vision at the Technical University of Darmstadt and leads the Neural Capture & Synthesis research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. His research develops AI methods to capture and synthesize the real world using commodity hardware, focusing on markerless motion capture of faces and bodies, and photorealistic neural rendering. His work has been recognized with the German Pattern Recognition Award, Eurographics Young Researcher Award, and an ERC Starting Grant (all 2024). Recent publications focus on Gaussian-based avatars, neural human reconstruction, and diffusion models for scene synthesis.

Susanne Weisمشاهده پروفایل

استاد پژوهشی

• Neuroimaging
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Machine Learning in Neuroscience
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Susanne Weis is a Research Professor and Group Leader of the 'Variability of the Brain' group at the Department of Brain and Behavior (INM-7), part of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM) at Research Center Jülich GmbH. Her work focuses on understanding brain variability through advanced neuroimaging techniques and machine learning, with particular emphasis on sex differences, hormonal influences, and clinical applications in mental health. Her research interests include neuroimaging methodologies, machine learning applications in cognitive neuroscience, and the structural-functional relationships underlying brain variability. She investigates how factors like sex hormones and naturalistic stimuli (e.g., movies) affect brain connectivity and cognitive performance, aiming to improve diagnostic and predictive tools for disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. Publications highlight her contributions to developing datasets (e.g., SpEx), analyzing confound leakage in ML models, and exploring meta-analytic networks during naturalistic viewing. Her work bridges basic science and clinical impact, addressing challenges in interpreting neuroimaging data and advancing personalized medicine approaches. In her role as a group leader, Weis oversees research projects and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams. She is affiliated with the Helmholtz Association and contributes to the broader scientific community through her research in neuroimaging and computational neuroscience.

Zeynep Akataمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Multimodal Learning
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Zero-Shot Learning
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Zeynep Akata is the Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of the Institute for Explainable Machine Learning at Helmholtz Munich. Previously she was a W3 Professor at the University of Tübingen (2019-2023) and held faculty and post-doctoral positions at the University of Amsterdam, UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Her research focuses on multimodal learning and explainable artificial intelligence . Education: PhD, University of Grenoble / INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 2014 MSc, RWTH Aachen University, 2010 BSc, Trakya University, Turkey, 2008 Research Interests: Professor Akata’s group develops algorithms that learn from vision, language and other modalities simultaneously, with a strong emphasis on zero-shot, few-shot and continual learning . A central theme is making decisions interpretable, leading to work on explainable AI, concept bottleneck models, multimodal reasoning and human-aligned representation learning . Recent projects investigate large-scale multimodal language models, dataset distillation, model merging and continual knowledge editing. Publication Trends: Her 2024-2025 publications reveal a shift toward foundational large-scale models (diffusion, LLMs, vision-language transformers) while retaining the core themes of interpretability and generalization under limited supervision . Topics span dataset distillation, model merging, continual learning, fairness auditing of generative models and novel evaluation protocols for zero-shot learning systems. Scientific Awards: Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science (2014) Young Scientist Honour, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation (2019) ERC Starting Grant, European Commission (2019) DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award (2021) ECVA Young Researcher Award (2022) Alfried Krupp Award (2023) Advising & Funding: Prof. Akata currently supervises or co-supervises 25+ PhD students across TUM and the University of Tübingen via ELLIS and IMPRS-IS doctoral programs. She holds major grants including an ERC Starting Grant and DARPA Explainable AI funding, and is a frequent program chair and area chair for premier conferences (CVPR 2024, ECCV 2026, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.). Labs & Teams: She leads the Institute for Explainable Machine Learning at Helmholtz Munich and heads the Multimodal Learning and Explainable AI group at TUM. The institute collaborates closely with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Cyber Valley ecosystem, and maintains close ties with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Informatics.

Rainer Böhmeمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Steganography and steganalysis
• Digital forensics
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Professor Rainer Böhme is a prominent academic in the field of IT security and privacy at the University of Münster's School of Business and Economics, Department of Information Systems. He also holds a professorship for Security and Privacy at the University of Innsbruck's Institute of Computer Science. His research spans multiple dimensions of digital security, with particular expertise in steganography, digital forensics, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the economic aspects of cybersecurity. Dr. Böhme earned his Doctoral Degree from TU Dresden's Faculty of Computer Science in 2008, following studies in Communications, Economics and Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden and Université Paris XII. His academic journey includes positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Münster (2010-2015), Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley (2009-2010), and Scientific Staff at TU Dresden's Chair of Privacy and Data Security. His research interests focus on steganography and steganalysis, digital forensics, privacy-enhancing technologies, security and usability, economic and behavioral aspects of information privacy, virtual currencies, and the economics of information security. His work bridges technical security mechanisms with economic and behavioral considerations, creating a unique interdisciplinary approach to cybersecurity challenges. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong trend toward the economics of security, particularly regarding blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, and privacy valuation. His work increasingly examines the intersection of technical security mechanisms with market dynamics, regulatory frameworks, and user behavior. The research spans theoretical game-theoretic models, empirical studies of user behavior, and practical applications in digital forensics and privacy protection. Program Co-Chair, Financial Cryptography and Data Security (2015) Program Co-Chair, New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) (2015) General Chair, 8th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics (2014) Organizer and Program Co-Chair, 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research (2014) Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research (since 2013) Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security (since 2013) Professor Böhme has supervised multiple Master's theses in Information Systems, including work on static code analysis for smart contracts, remote maintenance protocol security, and application protection requirements in retail banking. His research is supported by significant grants from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, the DFG, and the EU FP7 program, with projects focusing on digital forensics, privacy-enhancing technologies, and cryptocurrency crime prevention. He leads the IT Security Research Group at the University of Münster, which investigates theoretical and applied aspects of information security with particular emphasis on the economic dimensions of security decisions.

Larissa Schlegel-Papeمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Poultry Science
• Animal Welfare
• Stress Assessment in Chickens
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Larissa Schlegel-Pape serves as a Scientific Associate at the Department for Ornamental and Pedigree Poultry within the Farm Animal Clinic of Freie Universität Berlin's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Her work focuses on developing innovative methods for assessing chicken welfare through the creation of the "Stressed Chicken Scale," which aims to systematically identify stress indicators in poultry. Her research interests center on animal welfare science, specifically stress assessment in chickens using both behavioral observation and computer vision technology. She investigates how body posture, movement patterns, and other visual indicators can reliably signal discomfort or stress in poultry, with the goal of creating practical assessment tools for veterinarians and poultry farmers. Her work bridges veterinary medicine, ethology, and technological innovation, contributing to refinement research (one of the 3Rs principles) in animal husbandry. Analysis of her publications reveals a strong focus on developing and validating the Stressed Chicken Scale across multiple contexts. Her work spans methodological development, practical implementation studies, and technological integration with computer vision systems. The research demonstrates progression from conceptual framework to validation studies and practical application, with increasing sophistication in assessment techniques and broader implications for animal welfare standards in poultry farming. Schlegel-Pape actively collaborates with the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and participates in interdisciplinary projects involving artificial intelligence applications in agriculture. She presents her findings regularly at major German veterinary conferences including the DVG (Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft) events, DACh Epidemiology conferences, and specialized poultry medicine gatherings. Her work contributes significantly to advancing animal welfare assessment methodologies and promoting refinement in poultry husbandry practices.

Jan Logemannمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• History of capitalism
• History of consumption (credit, retail, households)
• History of borders and elite migration
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Jan Logemann serves as substitute professor of American History at the University of Göttingen for the 2025/26 academic year, with prior acting professorships at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ruhr University Bochum, and University of Kassel. He remains a Research Associate at Göttingen's Institute of Economic and Social History since 2014 and serves as Affiliated Faculty at the University of Glasgow's School of Social Sciences. His academic credentials include a Doctorate in Modern History from Pennsylvania State University (2007), Master of Arts in History from Humboldt University of Berlin (2002), and undergraduate studies across Humboldt University, Free University of Berlin, and Pennsylvania State University (1996-2002). Logemann's research centers on transnational economic history, examining how European émigrés shaped consumer capitalism through retail, credit systems, and design innovations. His work bridges funeral industry commercialization, elite migration patterns, and German-American comparative frameworks, revealing capitalism's cultural dimensions through household consumption and border dynamics. His scholarship demonstrates consistent focus on transatlantic perspectives in economic history, with publications exploring consumer culture's evolution from 20th-century émigré influences to contemporary funeral markets. This interdisciplinary approach connects business history with social anthropology and design studies. Scientific recognition includes: Fellow in the History of Consumption, German Historical Institute Washington (2009-2010) Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington (2010-2014) He directs the Erasmus Mundus MA "Global Markets, Local Creativities" (GLOCAL) program and led the BMBF-funded Junior Research Group "Transatlantic Perspectives" (2010-2014), analyzing European immigrants' views of America. His academic service includes peer review for Business History Review, Journal of Design History, and Journal for Historical Research in Marketing. Logemann actively contributes to research networks through the Program Director role for GLOCAL and maintains affiliations with multiple transatlantic academic associations.

Bistra Andreevaمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Phonetics and phonology of intonation and rhythm
• Cross-language and individual differences in syllabic prominence
• Intonation and information structure
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Bistra Andreeva is a full Professor of Phonetics and Phonology at Saarland University, Department of Language Science and Technology. She is also a principal investigator of the DFG-funded project “Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation” (2022-2025) and leads or co-leads several other externally funded projects on prosody, information structure, and language contact. She teaches and has taught at Saarland University, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, and other European universities. Education & Academic Background Habilitation (kumulative Habilitationsschrift): “Contrastive Prosody: Bulgarian vs. German”, Saarland University, 2016. PhD (Dr. phil.): “Zur Phonetik und Phonologie der Intonation der Sofioter-Varietät des Bulgarischen”, Saarland University, 2007. Research Interests Andreeva’s research focuses on the phonetics and phonology of intonation and rhythm, cross-language and individual differences in the production and perception of syllabic prominence, the relation between intonation and information structure, minority languages (especially Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria), and the interaction between information density and prosodic structure. Her methodological expertise includes experimental phonetics, corpus-based studies, and acoustic analysis. Major Projects SFB 1102 C1: “Information Density and the Predictability of Phonetic Structure” (DFG, 2014-2026) JuSpa: “Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation” (DFG, 2022-2025) Prosodic aspects of Bulgarian compared to other languages with lexical stress (Bulgarian National Science Fund, 2019-2024) Prosodic manifestations of focus in French and English from a Bulgarian point of view (DAAD & Sofia University, 2021-2023) Scientific Awards & Recognition While no major named prizes are listed, Andreeva’s work has been continuously supported by competitive grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), DAAD, and Bulgarian National Science Fund. Her publications appear in top-tier journals and conference proceedings (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Interspeech, Speech Prosody, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences). Teaching & Supervision She offers a broad spectrum of courses including Experimental Phonetics, Prosody, Phonetics & Phonology of Slavic Languages, Introduction to Instrumental Phonetics, and seminars on language contact. She has supervised numerous BA, MA, and PhD theses and regularly teaches at the PhD School of Sofia University. Labs & Teams She is affiliated with the Phonetics Laboratory at Saarland University and collaborates closely with the Institute for Bulgarian Language (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), working in interdisciplinary teams involving phoneticians, computational linguists, and field linguists.

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Textile User Interfaces
• Soft Robotics
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Jan Oliver Borchers is a full professor of computer science and head of the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University, where he holds the endowed Chair in Media Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction (Computer Science 10). He established his research group in 2003 and pioneered modern HCI academic research and teaching in Germany, becoming a leading lab in terms of archival publications at CHI, the top international conference in HCI. Before joining RWTH, he held faculty positions at Stanford University and ETH Zurich. His research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction with particular interest in new user interfaces for soft robotics, textile user interfaces, 3D printing and personal fabrication, augmented reality, wearable and tangible computing, interfaces for software development, deceptive patterns, and interactive guides and exhibits. He opened Germany's first Fab Lab in 2009 and has been instrumental in advancing digital fabrication and maker culture in academia. His work bridges theoretical HCI research with practical applications, as evidenced by his consulting for major companies including AirBus, Apple, ARD, Bayer, Children's Museum Boston, Daimler, Handelsblatt, OTIS, Scout24, TEDx, and Deutsche Telekom. His recent publications show a strong focus on deceptive patterns in UI design, textile interfaces, and the intersection of AI with human interaction. The research demonstrates consistent innovation in tactile interaction techniques, with numerous honorable mentions at top conferences like CHI. His lab has produced significant contributions to eyes-free interaction, textile computing, and the ethical implications of dark patterns, particularly regarding children's experiences with deceptive designs. IDC 2025 Best Work in Progress for research on children's assessment of deceptive designs CHI'25 Student Games Competition Winner for The Deceptive Dungeon RWTH-Wissenschaftsnacht 2024 Best Science Slam for Usability: 4 Prinzipien guter User Interfaces Multiple CHI Honorable Mentions spanning from 2008-2021 Best Note and Best Demo awards at ITS and UIST conferences Borchers has served in numerous leadership roles including heading the Computer Science Department's Examination Board (2015-2025), coordinating the department's public relations since 2010, and organizing the weekly Faculty Lunch since 2003. He is an active member of the ACM, SIGCHI, SIGCHI Germany, and GI, and introduced the Interactivity format to the CHI conference in 2005. His PhD thesis, A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design, became the first book to bring design patterns to HCI. The Media Computing Group under his leadership has developed significant expertise in physical computing, textile interfaces, and fabrication technologies, with a strong emphasis on both theoretical contributions and practical applications. His lab continues to push boundaries in interactive technologies while maintaining a strong ethical stance on user experience, particularly regarding deceptive design patterns.

• Machine Learning
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• Safety in Learning Processes
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Antonia Holzapfel is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering (DSME) of RWTH Aachen University. Supervised by Prof. Sebastian Trimpe, her work focuses on safe and explainable machine learning (XAI) for robotics and time-series modeling, with applications in mechanical engineering and medical technology. Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (Design Engineering specialization) Master's in General Mechanical Engineering (Simulation Technology and Medical Technology specializations) Her research addresses safety in learning processes , including Bayesian optimization for quadcopters and concept extraction for model interpretability. Her Friedrich-Wilhelm Award -winning thesis (2024) explored safe online learning in time-varying environments, presented at the L4DC conference. She contributes to DFG-funded projects on data-driven process modeling in forming technology. Key scientific contributions include: Advancing safe Bayesian optimization for autonomous systems Developing explainable AI methods for time-series analysis Improving model robustness through internal representation patterns Scientific awards: Friedrich-Wilhelm Award for outstanding Master's thesis (2024) Antonia's work bridges machine learning safety with practical applications in robotics and industrial processes.

• Responsible Computing
• Data Protection & Governance
• Digital Well-Being
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Asia J. Biega is a tenure-track faculty member (W2) at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), where she leads the interdisciplinary Responsible Computing group. She is also a principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence CASA and the FINDHR consortium. Her work sits at the intersection of computing and society, focusing on responsible computing, data protection & governance, and digital well-being within data-driven and AI-based systems. Dr. Biega's research spans multiple disciplines including computer science, law, philosophy, and social sciences. Her work examines how principles of responsible computing can be computationally operationalized, with particular attention to data protection frameworks, privacy technology governance, and digital well-being. She actively collaborates across disciplinary boundaries to make technical contributions while supporting research in other fields. Her approach combines theoretical rigor with practical applications, often drawing from her industry experience at Microsoft and Google. Her publication record reveals a strong focus on the intersection of fairness, privacy, and transparency in information retrieval systems. She has pioneered work on data minimization compliance, fair ranking algorithms, and user perceptions of data collection practices. Her research consistently bridges technical and legal perspectives, particularly examining how GDPR principles can be computationally implemented. Recent work shows increasing attention to generative AI governance, algorithmic hiring systems, and the relational aspects of data in recommender systems. Dr. Biega has received several prestigious awards including the Council of Europe's Rodotà Award for innovative research in data protection, the SaTML Notable Reviewer Award, the GI-DBIS Dissertation Award of the German Informatics Society, and recognition as one of the '100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics' in 2025. She has advised numerous PhD students and postdocs who have gone on to faculty positions at institutions including the University of Trieste, Penn State, and the University of Washington. Her research is funded by the Max Planck Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the European Union (Horizon Europe FINDHR). She serves as General Co-Chair for ACM FAccT 2025 and has held leadership roles in multiple academic conferences.