How does thinking work? (How) can we instruct machines to think? And how can we use our knowledge to make machines more useful for people?
I combine 15 years of university-based research and teaching in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics and human-machine interaction with three years of practical experience at Intuity Media Lab GmbH. As an independent scientist I produce tangible results based on scientific findings.
I am currently mostly pondering about the abililty of humans to make decisions in everyday life. I use results from psychology and behavioral economics to implement computational decision processes that resemble those of humans. The goal is not only to get better automatic responses, but also to facilitate the interaction between people and machines. The same mechanisms are interesting for defining organizational processes.
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
Education
Grade: summa cum laude
passed with distinction
Awards
- Adjunct member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as a member of the Young Scholar's Programme (2012 – 2018)
- Carl-von-Linde Junior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of TU München (2010 – 2012)
- Junior research group leader in the cluster of excellence Cognition for Technical Systems, TU München (2009 – 2012)
Projects
since 2021todoListo: Your personal task management tool
at Alex Kirsch IT GmbHPrototypingUser Experience DesignClojureClojureScriptReactKeycloak
todoListo: Your personal task management tool
2021 – 2023Transformation consulting and support for an online publisher of medical knowledge
ConsultingUser Experience DesignBusiness analysisRequirements AnalysisWorkshopsPrototypingClojureScriptJavaScriptReact
Transformation consulting and support for an online publisher of medical knowledge
The 10-year-old company has been very successful with quick innovations in its online products. By focusing on innovation, technical debt has been accumulated both on a conceptual and on an architectural level, which led to declining innovative power. In this project, interal software tools are to be reconceptualized and reimplemented, while ensuring that day-to-day business is not impaired. Ideally, new functionality that directly improve the end user product, should be added in the course of the transformation process.
- Analysis and illustration of hitherto existing system functionality and shortcomings
- Preparation and presentation of information for management to argue the need for the transformation
- Information and onboarding of different stakeholders (end users, developers, product designers)
- Planning of intermediate goals and project steps
- User experience research
- Research of central libraries
- Functional prototyping of a web frontend
Feedback I received from project collaborators:
- very structured and well prepared for meetings
- an iterative approach that can deal with uncertainty and gets closer to a clear picture on every iteration
- great presenter of results and insights
- inspiring with new angles on old issues
- not only capable on a concept level but also a quick prototyper
- great user-centric end-to-end thinking
Talks and Training
April 2022User Experience – Survival Guide for Software Developers
itestra Exchange DayUser Experience DesignAgile software developmentTalk
User Experience – Survival Guide for Software Developers
User Experience has become a pervasive topic in software development. This presentation introduces basic tools and methods of User Experience Design for software developers. On the one hand it aims to facilitate the interaction with designers, on the other hand it contains tips for creating intuitive user interfaces without the help of designers.
August 2017The RenAIssance: Brave New World
European Forum Alpbach 2017, 6-day course, with Tarek BesoldArtificial IntelligenceState of AILecture
The RenAIssance: Brave New World
It was my honor and pleasure to teach this course at the European Forum Alpbach. The seminar introduced the basic principles of Artificial Intelligence to give participants a basis for evaluating ongoing public discussions. To give participants from non-technical subject areas an idea of the difficulty of programming, we had a robot programming challenge, with students playing the parts of robots, compilers and programmers.
- The fascination of AI
- Basic techniques of AI
- Machine Learning
- Cognitive processes
- Applications of AI