Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting

Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting is a co-director of the Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), head of the research department “Foundations of Systemic AI” at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI), and a professor of AI and Machine Learning at TU Darmstadt. After the PhD at the University of Freiburg in 2006, he was with MIT, Fraunhofer IAIS, the University of Bonn, and TU Dortmund University. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), the European Association for AI (EurAI), and the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), book author (“How Machines Learn”) and received the inaugural German AI Award 2019. He wrote a regular AI column in the Welt am Sonntag.