Scholar
Zeynep Akata
Google Scholar ID: jQl9RtkAAAAJ
Professor at Technical University of Munich and Director at Helmholtz Munich
Citations & Impact
Citations
22,486
H-index
54
i10-index
111
Publications
20
Co-authors
188
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- [{'Award': 'Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science', 'Organization': 'Max Planck Society', 'Year': '2014'}, {'Award': 'Young Scientist Honour', 'Organization': 'Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation', 'Year': '2019'}, {'Award': 'ERC-2019 Starting Grant', 'Organization': 'European Commission', 'Year': '2019'}, {'Award': 'The DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award', 'Organization': 'DAGM', 'Year': '2021'}, {'Award': 'The ECVA Young Researcher Award', 'Organization': 'ECVA', 'Year': '2022'}, {'Award': 'The Alfried Krupp Award', 'Organization': '-', 'Year': '2023'}]
Research Experience
- [{'Position': 'Professor of Computer Science', 'Institution': 'Technical University of Munich', 'Duration': '2024 - Now'}, {'Position': 'Director of Institute for Explainable Machine Learning', 'Institution': 'Helmholtz Munich', 'Duration': '2024 - Now'}, {'Position': 'Professor of Computer Science', 'Institution': 'University of Tübingen', 'Duration': '2019 – 2023'}, {'Position': 'Senior Researcher', 'Institution': 'Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems', 'Duration': '2020-2023'}, {'Position': 'Senior Group Leader', 'Institution': 'Max Planck Institute for Informatics', 'Duration': '2017 – 2023'}, {'Position': 'Assistant Professor', 'Institution': 'University of Amsterdam', 'Duration': '2017 – 2019'}, {'Position': 'Post Doctoral Researcher', 'Institution': 'UC Berkeley', 'Advisor': 'Prof Trevor Darrell', 'Duration': '2016-2017'}, {'Position': 'Post Doctoral Researcher', 'Institution': 'Max Planck Institute for Informatics', 'Advisor': 'Prof Bernt Schiele', 'Duration': '2014-2017'}]
Background
- Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, with research interests including multimodal learning and explainable AI.
Miscellany
- [{'Activity': 'Program Chair', 'Conferences': 'GCPR-DAGM 2020, IEEE CVPR 2024, ECCV 2026'}, {'Activity': 'Senior Area Chair', 'Conferences': 'NeurIPS 2023, ICML 2024'}, {'Activity': 'Area Chair', 'Conferences': 'WACV 2016, IJCAI 2018, ECCV 2018, BMVC 2019, CVPR 2019-2023, ICCV 2019-2023, ICML 2020-2023, ECCV 2020-2022, ICLR 2021-2023'}, {'Activity': 'Associate Editor', 'Journals': 'Pattern Recognition Journal (Aug 2018 - Aug 2020), TPAMI (2020 - Now)'}, {'Activity': 'Reviewer', 'Journals/Conferences': 'TPAMI 2015-2017, IJCV 2015-2017, ICCV 2015-2017, ECCV 2016, ACCV 2016, CVPR 2015-2018, EMNLP 2018, NIPS 2016-2018, AISTATS 2017, AAAI 2018, ICLR 2018, ICML 2018-2019'}]
