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Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH wurde 1988 als gemeinnützige Public-Private Partnership (PPP) gegründet. Das DFKI ist auf dem Gebiet innovativer Softwaretechnologien auf der Basis von Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz die führende wirtschaftsnahe Forschungseinrichtung Deutschlands. In zwanzig Forschungsbereichen, acht Kompetenzzentren und acht Living Labs werden ausgehend von anwendungsorientierter Grundlagenforschung Produktfunktionen, Prototypen und patentfähige Lösungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie entwickelt.


Dr. Alassane Ndiaye has been a senior software engineer (R&D) and project manager at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) for more than 20 years, working on research as well as industry and transfer projects. Among other things, he uses machine learning in forecasting methods for the energy industry and electromobility.

Dr Matthieu Deru is a senior software engineer (R&D) and UX designer for interactive systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI). His project experience covers topics as diverse as the application fields of AI, from intelligent user interfaces to complex prediction models for electromobility.

Niels Pinkwart is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Scientific Director of the AI Campus. He is also Scientific Director of the Educational Technology Lab research area at the DFKI Project Office Berlin. He studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Duisburg, where he completed his PhD studies in 2005 with a dissertation on collaborative modeling systems in education. After a post-doctoral researcher position at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, he accepted offers for Assistant Professor and Associate Professor positions at Clausthal University of Technology. In 2013, he moved to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where he heads the research group "Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society".