Bio
Kristian Kersting is an Associate Professor for Computer Science at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2006. After a PostDoc at MIT, he moved to the Fraunhofer IAIS and the University of Bonn using a Fraunhofer ATTRACT Fellowship. His main research interests are data mining, machine learning, and statistical relational AI, with applications to medicine, plant phenotpying, traffic, and collective attention. Kristian has published over 130 technical papers, and his work has been recognized by several awards, including the ECCAI Dissertation Award for the best AI dissertation in Europe.
He gave several tutorials at top venues and serves regularly on the PC (often at the senior level) of the top machine learning, data mining, and AI venues. Kristian co-founded the international workshop series on Statistical Relational AI and co-chaired ECML PKDD 2013, the premier European venue for Machine Learning and Data Mining, as well as the Best Paper Award Committee of ACM KDD 2015. Currently, he is an action editor of DAMI, MLJ, AIJ, and JAIR as well as the editor of JAIR’s special track on Deep Learning, Knowledge Representation, and Reasoning.
