Ralf Möller and Alexander Steen new speakers of the Section for Artificial Intelligence (FBKI)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller, Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Lübeck, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Steen Junior Professor at the University of Greifswald have been elected as the new spokespersons of the Artificial Intelligence Section (FBKI) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI) with effect from January 2024.
The Department of Artificial Intelligence (FBKI) of the German Informatics Society (GI) has voted: As of today, Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller, Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Lübeck and Prof. Dr. Alexander Steen from the University of Greifswald take on the role as speaker team of FBKI.
Christine Regitz, President of the GI: "I congratulate Ralf Möller and Alexander Steen on their election as speakers of the section on Artificial at the GI. AI is one of the most important drivers of innovation in business, science and society. With almost 1,000 members, our AI department is the largest network of AI researchers and practitioners in the German-speaking world. I am therefore very pleased that our AI department is well positioned for the future. At the same time, I would like to thank Matthias Klusch from DFKI and Ingo Timm from the University of Trier/DFKI for their many years of commitment as the heads of the AI section."
Prof. Ralf Möller, newly elected Co-Speaker of the section on Artificial Intelligence: "It is important to me to intensively pursue the long-term research field of AI: From a bird's eye view, a key goal of AI research is to enable the development of flexible systems (agents) that are able to correctly interpret dynamically posed task descriptions based on a given task description and the represented world knowledge, as well as to determine actions autonomously and execute them in the real world in order to solve the set tasks in the best possible way. It is in the nature of things that task descriptions in a social context must be further developed by the agents themselves through feedback when performing actions for the benefit of all participants in the context."
Ralf Möller is Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Lübeck and Head of the StarAI in Healthcare research department at DFKI. After his habilitation at the University of Hamburg, Ralf Möller conducted research at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel and the Technical University of Hamburg. He is a member of the board of the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' as well as of the Ethics Working Group and the Ethics Council of the Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts' at the University of Hamburg. His research interests are Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Intellect, Dynamic Probabilistic Relational Models, Probabilistic Computing, Data Mining, Web Mining Agents, Data Science and Machine Learning, Databases and Ontologies, Data Management Algorithms and Data Structures as well as applications in medicine, humanities, natural sciences and technology. Further information can be found at https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/index.php?id=moeller.
Alexander Steen is a Junior Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Greifswald. He works in the field of symbolic artificial intelligence, in particular automated proofs. He is the main developer of the internationally award-winning theorem prover Leo-III and other systems for computer-aided reasoning, and also investigates their application in other sciences such as law. From 2018-2023, Alexander Steen was a Junior Fellow of the German Informatics Society; and he was Co-Chair of KI – the 46th annual conference of the FBKI – in Berlin in 2023. Further information at https://www.alexandersteen.de.