Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg

Ulrike von Luxburg is a full professor for the Theory of Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her research analyzes machine learning algorithms from a theoretical point of view, tries to understand their implicit mechanisms, and to give formal statistical guarantees for their performance. In this way, she reveals fundamental assumptions, biases, strenghts and weaknesses of widely used machine learning algorithms, for example in the field of explainable machine learning. Next to her own research group, she is coordinating a large research consortium on Machine Learning in Science and the Tübingen CZS Institute for AI and Law. Together with an interdisciplinary team of students, she developed and implemented an interactive exhibition “Artificial Intelligence in Tübingen” in the City Museum Tübingen, which received Germany’s highest award for science communication in 2024. She has chaired some of the most important machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS and COLT, and her research won many best paper awards (see below for a list). She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.