Cluster Members
Cluster Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
Head of Information Systems
Phone: +49 331 5509-280
Mail: felix.naumann@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- data quality
- data profiling
- data preparation and data cleansing
- information integration
Teaching Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl
Head of Data Engineering Systems
Phone: +49 331 5509-4881
Mail: tilmann.rabl@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- efficient processing of data streams
- complex data analysis
- modern database system architectures
- benchmarking
Cluster Members
Prof. Dr. Niclas Böhmer
Head of Algorithmic Decision Making and Society
Phone: +49 331 550-9196
Mail: niclas.boehmer@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- Computational Social Choice
- Economics and Computation
- Fair & Transparent AI
- AI for Public Health
- Social Impact of Algorithms
Prof. Dr. Ralf Herbrich
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability
Phone: +49 331 5509-3468
Mail: office-herbrich@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- energy-efficient AI processes
- AI for saving energy
- AI for energy-generation
- AI for storing energy
Prof. Dr. Gerard de Melo
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
Phone: +49 331 5509-4906
Mail: gerard.demelo@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- deep learning
- natural language processing
- knowledge graphs
- big data
- multimodality
- data integration
Research Focuses:
- Process Mining
- Pattern detection in data streams
- Exploratory data analysis
- Design of data analysis pipelines
Prof. Dr. Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
Head of Spatial Analytics and Large-Scale Data Processing
Phone: +49 331 5509-214
Mail: eleni.tziritazacharatou@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- Spatial data processing
- Spatial analytics
- Data exploration
- IoT data management
Affiliate Cluster Members
Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich
Head of Digital Health – Connected Healthcare
Phone: +49 331 5509-4850
Mail: bert.arnrich@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- health data in daily life
- ubiquitous computing
- clinical data mining
- distributed AI
- affective computing
Prof. Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai
Head of Data-Intensive Internet Computing
Phone: +49 331 5509-3435
Mail: office-bajpai@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- network protocols and architecture
- networked systems
- network infrastructure
- network security and privacy
Research Focuses:
- theoretical computer science
- efficient algorithms
- heuristic optimization
- random processes
- complexity
Prof. Dr. med. Georg Kaissis
Head of Digital Health: Human-Centered Transformative AI
Mail: georg.kaissis@hpi.de
MoreResearch Focuses:
- Developing cutting-edge multimodal AI models for medicine
- Pioneering methods to provide verifiable guarantees for their reliability
- Foundational research in machine learning (including differential privacy, fairness, interpretability, model editing and efficiency)
- Creation of large-scale, human-in-the-loop systems based on multimodal large reasoning models designed to empower clinicians, researchers and patients
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lippert
Head of Digital Health – Machine Learning
Phone: +49 331 5509-4850
Mail: christoph.lippert@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- AI methods in medicine
- data analytics
- recognition of disease patterns
- effects of digital health measures
Research Focuses:
- Generative and Agentic Software Engineering
- AI Engineering
- Requirements Engineering for Trustworthy AI
- Mining Software Repositories
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Renard
Head of Data Analytics and Computational Statistics
Phone: +49 331 5509-4961
Mail: bernhard.renard@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- automated data analysis
- data integration
- statistical estimation of error rates
- software implementation
- biomedicine
Prof. Dr. Sandra Wachter
Head of Technology and Regulation
Phone: +49 331 5509-215
Mail: sandra.wachter@hpi.de
Research Focuses:
- Governance of emergent technologies and public policy
- Algorithmic bias and fairness
- Explainable AI
- Generative AI and hallucinations
- Platform regulation
- Societal impact of emergent technologies on human rights such as privacy, free speech and press, access to information, non-discrimination, education, and employment
Areas of responsibility:
- Develop and implement strategies, concepts, and recommendations for cluster activities in research, teaching, partnerships, and transfer.
- Coordinate course offerings in collaboration with cluster coordinators, faculty members, program management, and Student Affairs.
- Plan and organize cluster activities, including weekly meetings, special lectures, retreats, and other academic events.
Swinda Krause
Program Manager Data and AI Cluster (maternity leave)
Phone: +49 331 5509-248
Mail: swinda.krause@hpi.de
Areas of responsibility:
- cluster coordination
- organization of cluster activities (weekly meetings, special lectures, retreats, … )
- contact person for PhD research exchange program with University of California, Irvine (UCI)
- organization of Research methods curriculum for PhD Students
Dr. Daria Onitiu
Postdoctoral Researcher "Technology and Regulation"
Phone: +49 331 5509-1315
Mail: daria.onitiu@hpi.de
Dr. Kaivalya Rewal
Postdoctoral Researcher "Technology and Regulation"
Dr. Stratis Tsirtsis
Postdoctoral Researcher "Technology and Regulation"
Mail: stratis.tsirtsis@hpi.de
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