Prof. Dr. Christin Seifert
About
I am a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Mathemtatics at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany and the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence. I have been excited about all flavors of machine learning for a long time. In particular, I am passionate about bridging the gap between algorithmics and the human. I strongly believe that algorithms should be designed in a way that tightly integrates the user and her mental models of her material world, and the (immaterial) data collected to describe it; Artificial intelligences should be able to explain their reasoning and basis of decision-making to end users — in a way that relates to their physical reality and that they can understand. In consequence, my research is characterised by interdisciplinarity and a broad range of application areas. My core research interests are explainable and user-centric AI, natural language processing, and machine learning.
I hold a Ph.D. from the Technical University Graz, Austria (Thesis Topic: Visually Supported Supervised Machine Learning) and a diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in computer science from the Technical University Chemnitz, Germany.
CV
| Position | |
|---|---|
| current | Full Professor, Artificial Intelligence, University of Marburg & Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence |
| Guest Associate Professor, Data Science Group, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands | |
| 2020 – 2023 | Full Professor, Medical Data Science in Oncology, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany |
| 2018 – 2020 | Assistant Professor, Data Science Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands |
| 05 – 07/2019 | Visiting Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology, hosted by Ling Liu, Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab, Atlanta, GA, U.S. |
| Visiting Researcher, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), hosted by David W. Aha, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, U.S. | |
| 10/2017 – 02/2018 | Full Professor of Complex and Intelligent Systems Engineering (Interim), University of Passau, Germany |
| 04 – 09/2016 | Guest Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University Dresden, Germany |
| 2012 – 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor, Chair of Data Science, University of Passau, Germany. EU FP7 Projects EEXCESS and CODE |
| 2012 | Ph.D. (Dr. techn.), Institute for Knowledge Management, Technical University Graz, Austria |
| 2007 – 2012 | Research Associate, Technical University Graz and Know-Center Graz, Austria. FIT-IT Projekt DYONIPOS, EU FP7 Project Aposdle |
| 2004 – 2007 | Research and Project Assistant, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria. EU FP6 Projects MACS and MOBVIS |