Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl

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Recent activities

• Nature index on AI -- Interview in advertisement feature of LMU (English)
• Quote on LMU.de/AI (German) (English version)
• Machine Learning (Dolmetscher) in LMU Einsichten 2020
• Statement on AI, in LMU aktuell (was here)
• Interview on AI, in LMU Einsichten 2019(1), with B. Bischl (was here)
• Keynote on "Data Mining on Process Data" at ICPM 2020 (Youtube, English)
• Keynote on "Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen" at High-Tech Summit Bayern 2020 (Youtube, German) (or here)
• More than 300 scientific publications, see my profiles at DBLP and at Google Scholar.

Governing and advisory functions, memberships

• Board Member, Institute for Informatics (IfI) at LMU Munich (2016-)
• Director, Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), National Competence Center on AI, funded by BMBF (2018-)
• Board of Directors, Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), Garching (2019-)
• Co-leader, Fraunhofer ADA Lovelace Center at LMU Munich (2018-)
• Co-spokesperson, Elite Master program in Data Science, LMU Munich (2016-)
• Spokesperson, ZD.B/BIDT Innovation Lab for Students "Big Data Science", LMU Munich(2017-)
• Member, Bavarian AI Council (Bayerischer KI-Rat), StMWK, StMWi, StMD (2020-2024)
• Expert committee EK|KI.BY 2020, Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts (BayStMWK) (2019-2020)
• Expert panel on AI/Big Data, Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (BayStMWi) (2018-2021)
• Advisory Board, Fraunhofer lighthouse project Machine Learning for Production (ML4P) (2018-2021)
• Advisory Board, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS) (2020-)
• Board Member, Area Databases and Information Systems (DBIS), German Computer Science Society (GI)
• Board Member, Group Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning (KDML), German Computer Science Society (GI)
• Board Member, Group Data Engineering for Data Science (DE4DS), German Computer Science Society (GI)
• Member, the German Computer Science Society (GI e.V.), FGDB, KDML, DE4DS
• Advisory Board and Member, German Society on Data Science (GDS e.V.)
• Member, SIGMOD and SIGKDD of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Program committee member of many scientific conferences on Data Mining, Machine Learning, Database Systems, etc.
• Reviewer, associate editor or guest editor for international journals, including VLDB Journal, DAMI/DMKD, Machine Learning, etc.
• Organizer of scientific conferences and workshops: LWDA 2021, SA4PM @ ICPM 2020, GDSD 2018, SISAP 2017, BTW 2015, LWA 2014, KDML 2013, SSTD 2009, BTW 2007, etc.

Selected projects at LMU Munich (2016-)

• MCML -- Munich Center for Machine Learning, national competence center on AI, funded by BMBF (director, with B. Bischl and D. Cremers)
• EU HumanE AI Net (with A. Schmidt, J. Spanjol and many international partners)
• Elite Master Program in Data Science, funded by Elite Network Bavaria (spokesman, with G. Kauermann)
• Project ReMLAV in DFG SPP RATIO (with H. Schütze, V. Tresp)
• ZD.B Innovation Lab for students "Big Data Science" (with B. Bischl, D. Kranzlmüller)
• Industrial Collaborations (Siemens, Allianz, Huawei, IAV, etc.)

Selected projects at RWTH Aachen University (2002-2016)

• DFG Cluster of Excellence UMIC
• DFG SFB 686
• DFG SPP Scalable Visual Analytics
• BMWi Theseus Mittelstand
• DFG SQFD
• JARA HumTec e-cosmos
• AIF MachInNet

Professional positions and education

• LMU Munich: Full professor and Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining (DBS) (2016-)
• RWTH Aachen University: Full professer and Chair of Computer Science 9 (Data Management and Data Exploration (2002-2016)
• Univ. Konstanz: Deputy profesor for Information Processing (2001-2002)
• Univ. Augsburg: Visiting lecturer on Multimedia Database Systems (2001)
• LMU Munich: Research and teaching associate; scientific assistant; lecturer (1993-2002)
• LMU Munich: Habilitation (venia legendi) in Computer Science (2001)
• LMU Munich: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Computer Science (1997), with Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel
• TUM: MSc in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker Univ.) (1992)