Katharina Eggensperger
Scholar

Katharina Eggensperger

Google Scholar ID: ADZN2nwAAAAJ
Professor for ML and AI | Lamarr Institute, TU Dortmund University
AutoMLHyperparameter OptimizationBayesian OptimizationMeta-LearningTabular Data
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,047
 
H-index
17
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
11
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-developed several open-source tools for HPO methods and AutoML systems
  • Team member of three AutoML competition wins (2016, 2018, 2020)
  • Paper 'Put CASH on Bandits: A Max K-Armed Problem for Automated Machine Learning' accepted at NeurIPS'25
  • Paper 'In-Context Decision Making for Optimizing Complex AutoML Pipelines' accepted at ECAI'25 and to be presented at EWRL'25
  • Paper 'In-Context Learning of Soft Nearest Neighbor Classifiers for Intelligible Tabular Machine Learning' accepted as poster and oral at TRL@ACL'25
  • Paper 'Towards Localization via Data Embedding for TabPFN' accepted at TRL@NeurIPS'24
Research Experience
  • Early Career Research Group Leader of 'AutoML for Science' at the University of Tübingen (2023–2025), within the Cluster of Excellence 'Machine Learning for Science'
  • Junior head of the Automl.org group
  • Teaches seminars such as 'Tabular Machine Learning' at TU Dortmund
  • Co-organized the AutoML workshop series at ICML in 2019, 2020, and 2021
  • Served as Social Chair (2022–2023), Program Chair (2024), and Non-Traditional Content Track Chair (2025) for the AutoML Conference