Prof. Dr Ute Schmid

Ute Schmid holds the Chair of Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg. For more than 20 years, she has been teaching and conducting research in the field of Artificial Intelligence. From 2020 to 2025, she led the Fraunhofer IIS Comprehensible AI project group. She heads the SME AI Experience Centre, funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, and is a member of the board of directors at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). Ute Schmid is internationally recognised in the areas of human-like machine learning, neuro-symbolic AI and explainable machine learning. She also conducts research in the field of AI and education. In addition to a degree in Computer Science, she has also obtained a degree in Psychology and has many years of experience in empirical research.