Scholar
Kristian Kersting
Google Scholar ID: QY-earAAAAAJ
Professor of AI & ML, Technical University of Darmstadt, Hessian.ai, DFKI, CAIRNE/ELLIS, AAAI Fellow
Citations & Impact
Citations
13,587
H-index
53
i10-index
232
Publications
20
Co-authors
174
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers; co-authored a Springer book on Statistical Relational AI and co-edited a MIT Press book on Probabilistic Lifted Inference; received the Inaugural German AI Award (Deutscher KI-Preis). He is also a Fellow of multiple international AI associations.
Research Experience
- Currently a Full Professor (W3) at the Computer Science Department of TU Darmstadt, leading the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) lab; member of the Centre for Cognitive Science, faculty of ELLIS Unit Darmstadt, and founding co-director of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.ai).
Education
- Received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 2006. Afterward, he worked at MIT, Fraunhofer IAIS, the University of Bonn, and TU Dortmund University.
Background
- Research interests include making computers learn as much, as rapidly and flexibly as humans, particularly in handling uncertainty, capturing causality, generating behavior, and combining learning and reasoning. Specializes in statistical relational artificial intelligence (AI) and deep (probabilistic) programming and learning.
Miscellany
- He is an investor in Aleph Alpha and co-founded the KI-Klub, aiming to connect AI experts, media, public, and politicians. Published 'Wie Maschinen Lernen', one of the first general introductory books on AI and machine learning in German.
