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Professor Iryna Gurevych will be bringing her expertise to the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
Professor Iryna Gurevych, ATHENE Distinguished Professor and Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Laboratory at TU Darmstadt, has been appointed a Fellow of the newly established Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. Her internationally recognised expertise in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence will strengthen an interdisciplinary research network investigating fundamental scientific questions at the intersection of biomedicine and AI.
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Humans and AI in dialogue: Prof. Dr. Florian Müller's research focuses on ensuring safer collaboration in the context of cybersecurity
Although better results should be achieved when humans and AI work together, research shows that this is by no means guaranteed. In the newly launched ATHENE project, "Human-AI Collaboration for Cybersecurity", HAICC for short, Prof. Dr. Florian Müller is investigating why this is the case and how it can be changed.
In this interview, he explains exactly what he is researching in the project and beyond.
ATHENE is expanding its expertise at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
Prof.Adi Akavia took up an ATHENE professorship in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, also becoming head of department at the Fraunhofer SIT. This appointment strengthens ATHENE's position as a leading research centre for applied cybersecurity in Germany.
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Marc-André Kaufhold is coordinating ATHENE project on AI against hate speech on the internet
Dr. Marc-André Kaufhold is a researcher in the PEASEC (Science and Technology for Peace and Security) research group. Later this year, he will be launching a new project in the ATHENE research area, "Reliable and Verifiable Information through Secure Media (REVISE)". In this interview, he introduces himself and discusses his work on the ATHENE project, "Towards an Effective Multi-Label Classification and Model Auditing Ecosystem for Combatting Textual Online Hate Speech - CYNTRA".
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