Prof. Dr. Jilles Vreeken

Jilles Vreeken is tenured faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, honorary professor at Saarland University, and fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2009 from Utrecht University, was a post-doctoral researcher at Antwerp University until 2013, and both independent research group leader (W2) at Saarland University and senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics until 2018. His research focuses on developing well-founded theory and efficient methods that give clear and actionable insight into large, complex data and models. In more general terms, he likes data mining, machine learning, and causal inference.