Kristian Kersting
Kristian Kersting is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 2006 and moved to the Fraunhofer IAIS and the University of Bonn using a Fraunhofer ATTRACT Fellowship in 2008 after a PostDoc at MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S. Before moving to the TU Dortmund University in 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor for Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Agriculture at the...See more
Kristian Kersting is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 2006 and moved to the Fraunhofer IAIS and the University of Bonn using a Fraunhofer ATTRACT Fellowship in 2008 after a PostDoc at MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S. Before moving to the TU Dortmund University in 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor for Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Agriculture at the University of Bonn in 2012. Additionally, he was adjunct assistant professor at the Medical School of the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, U.S., in 2012. His main research interests are data mining, machine learning, and statistical relational artificial intelligence. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and received the ECCAI Dissertation Award 2006, the ECML Best Student Paper Award in 2006, the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Best Poster Award in 2011, and the AAAI-2013 Outstanding PC Member Award. He has given several tutorials at top conferences and co-chaired BUDA, CMPL, Co- LISD, MLG, SRL, and StarAI, as well as the AAAI Student Abstract track and the Starting AI Research Symposium (STAIRS). Together with Stuart Russell, Leslie Kaelbling, Alon Halevy, Sriraam Natarajan, and Lilyana Mihalkova he cofounded the international workshop series on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI). He served as area chair/senior PC for several top conferences and co-chaired ECML PKDD 2013, the premier European venue for Machine Learning and Data Mining. Currently, he is an action editor of AIJ , DAMI , JAIR , and MLJ as well as on the editorial board of NGC. See less