Selected Talks & Media

• [Apr ‘24] I gave an invited keynote on “Effects of artificial intelligence on humans” at the BZT Annual Conference, covered by the newspaper Frankenpost (German only)
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited lecture on “Impulses on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” at the BASF XAI Workshop
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making” at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Adam Perer
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Human-AI Collaboration and Imperfect XAI” at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, hosted by Maria De-Arteaga
• [Feb ‘24] I gave a keynote on “Generative AI: Examples in Medicine” at the Digital Future Dialogue 2024 in Frankfurt
• [Feb ‘24] I gave a talk on “Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making” at the DFG-funded Managerial AI Network
• [Nov ‘23] I was honored to give the keynote at the reception (“Wirtschaftsempfang”) of the city and district of Bayreuth in 2023. Press Release (German only). TV Spot (German only).
• [Nov ‘23] I gave a talk on Appropriate Reliance and Imperfect XAI at ERCIS
• [Nov ‘23] I gave an interview to the Ausgburger Allgemeine newspaper on the current developments at OpenAI
• [Oct ‘23] I gave a talk on Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the AISoLa conference
• [Oct ‘23] I was invited to the panel on “AI and Business Development” at the ETH Launch AI+X Summit
• [Oct ‘23] I gave a seminar on “Current Trends in Human-AI Collaboration: Appropriate Reliance and Complementary Team Performance” at the University of Zurich (UZH) Departement of Informatics (IFI) Fall Semester Colloquium 2023
• [Oct ‘23] I gave the keynote on “A Scientific Perspective on GenAI” at the IBM GenAI Rally venues in Munich and Stuttgart
• [Sep ‘23] I gave a talk on “Human-AI Collaboration and Imperfect XAI” at the Managerial AI Event, funded by the Daimler Benz Foundation
• [Aug ‘23] I was invited to give a lecture on artificial intelligence to high school and college freshmen, which is available at the University of Bayreuth’s Youtube channel (German only)
• [Aug ‘23] I was invited to my former secondary school for a lecture on artificial intelligence School news article (German only)
• [Jul ‘23] I gave a talk on On Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the EIS — a joint Saarland University / University of Bayreuth / TU Dortmund Research Project
• [Jun ‘23] I participated as an appointed expert in the Committee for Science and the Arts in the Bavarian State Parliament on the topic of “Opportunities and Risks of AI in the Science Sector”, see more here UBT Article, Parliament Summary (German only)
• [May ‘23] I gave an interview to the podcast Digi-News on Artificial Intelligence for SMEs (German Only)
• [Apr ‘23] I gave an interview in the local newspaper Bayrische Rundschau (German only)
• [Apr ‘23] I was featured in a portrait article in the local paper of my hometown, Anzeiger für Harlingerland (German only)
• [Mar ‘23] I gave an invited talk on the paper On Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the mini-conference Analytics und Choice-based Analytics of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR)
• [Mar ‘23] I was interviewed for the start of my new job at the University of Bayreuth (German only)
• [Jan ‘23] I talked to Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the consequences and risks of ChatGPT for Google (German only)
• [Dec ‘22] I gave an interview to the MLOps Community with the title “Machine Learning Operations — What is it and Why Do We Need It?”, which you can find on Youtube or Spotify. Or watch these shorts Short 1, Short 2, Short 3
• [Nov ‘22] I gave an invited talk with the title “Towards ML products: MLOps & Complementarity” at the Healthy AI Lab at Chalmers University of Technology (2022), Gothenburg, Sweden, hosted by Fredrik Johansson
• [Nov ‘22] I gave an invited talk at WU Wien, hosted by Christian Haas
• [Mar ‘22] I gave an invited talk entitled “Human-AI Complementarity” at the University of Texas, Austin, hosted by Maria De-Arteaga
• [Dec ‘20] I was invited to the podcast “Insights and Beyond” to talk about the current state of AI, available on Spotify (German) and Spotify (English)
• [Mar ‘19] I gave an invited talk entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems” at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, hosted by Steven O. Kimbrough
• [Feb ‘19] Robin and I gave an invited talk entitled “How to Learn from Others? A Research Agenda on Transfer Machine Learning for Sales Forecasting” at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts hosted by John Cohn
• [Dec ‘18] I gave an invited seminar entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems” at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, hosted by Tava Olsen
• [Jun ‘18] I gave an invited keynote entitled “From Goldfish to God: The (dangerous) Growth of AI” at the Artificial Intelligence Conference of the Canadian-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce