Prof. Nejdl is full professor of computer science at Leibniz Universität Hannover and heads the L3S Research Center. He was PI of the ERC Advanced Grant ALEXANDRIA, which focused on search, exploration and analytics in web archives. Recent projects include the European ITNs NoBIAS, Cleopatra and KnowGraphs, the European Digital Innovation Hub DAISEC, and the CAIMed Center for AI and Medicine. He is interested both in symbolic as well as neural approaches to AI, possibly coupled with information retrieval, and works on applications of AI to medicine, production, mobility and education.

Marius Lindauer is a full professor at Leibniz University Hannover and a recipient of the prestigious ERC grant.

He completed his PhD at the University of Potsdam. After completing his doctoral studies, he joined the AutoML group at the University of Freiburg as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Marius is the co-head of the AutoML.org super-group, a member of the advisory board of COSEAL, a co-founder of the Leibniz Data Science Lab, and a member of several other networks, including ELLIS and CLAIRE. His research interests lie primarily in the field of AutoML, with additional expertise in Reinforcement Learning and Interpretable Machine Learning.