Artificial Intelligence and Explainability

The research group on Artificial Intelligence and Explainability focuses on hybrid AI methods to make machines understand human-created data. That is, we combine modern, sub-symbolic machine learning approaches with symbolic knowledge engineering based on Knowledge Graphs to develop transparent AI systems. We focus on Knowledge Extraction, Speech Assistants, Question Answering, AI ethics, and more. We are looking forward to talking to you about the possibilities and challenges in AI!

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Team

©Debayan Banerjee
AIX Team

Head of the Department

  • Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck

Office Management

  • Madlen Schmaltz

Technical and Administrative Staff

  • Laura Knetter, B.Sc.
  • Dipl.-Ing. Martin Kohler

Academic Advisor

  • Dr. Debayan Banerjee

PhD Students and Research Assistants

  • Angelie Kraft, M.Sc.
  • Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, M.Sc.
  • Aida Usmanova, M.Sc.

External PhD Students (University of Hamburg)

Junbo Huang
Longquan Jiang
Cedric Möller
Shaista Shabbir
Najeeb Shams
Xi Yan

External PhD Students

Daniel Speck (HITeC e.V.)
Elena Williams (Lufthansa Technik AG)

Researchers (HITeC e.V.)

Jan Reineke
Patrick Westphal

Student Assistants

Seike Appold (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Kai Moltzen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)

David Rath (HITeC e.V.)

Alumni

Philipp Heider (University of Hamburg)
Hannah Ossadnik (University of Hamburg)

Lars Michaelis (HITeC e.V.)
Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz (HITeC e.V.)