Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision, Data Science, Robotics, Cognitive Science

The Department's research area Artificial Intelligence combines fundamental research with practical applications. It offers an ideal environment for scientists and companies, with a large number of excellent researchers specialising in a wide range of topics, a vibrant ecosystem of research institutions and active support for start-ups.

The following lists show a selection of researchers in the Department of Computer Science who devote much of their research and teaching to AI topics. If you are also interested in other research areas, take a look at our overview of research groups.

  Name Working area(s)
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Prof. Dr. Carsten BinnigData and AI Systems (DAI)
Prof.‘in Georgia Chalvatzaki, Ph.D.Interactive Robot Perception and Learning (PEARL)
Portrait von Iryna Gurevych, Informatikprofessorin an der TU Darmstadt
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Prof.‘in Dr. Iryna GurevychUbiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP)
Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting
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Prof. Dr. Kristian KerstingArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML)
Prof.‘in Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira MeziniSoftware Technology (ST)
Prof. Dr. Dominik L. MichelsIntelligent Algorithms in Modeling and Simulation (IAMS)
Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D.Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)
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Prof.‘in Dr. Anna RohrbachMultimodal Grounded Learning (MAI)
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Prof. Dr. Marcus RohrbachMultimodal Reliable Artificial Intelligence (MAI)
Prof. Stefan Roth
Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.Visual Inference (VISINF)
Prof. Dr. Oskar von StrykSimulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics (SIM)
Prof. Dr. Justus Thies3D Graphics & Vision (GraVis)
  Name Working area(s)
Prof. Dr. Simone Schaub-Meyer
Independent Research Group Leader
Image and Video Analysis
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Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.Medical & Environmental Computing (MEC)

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