Members

Director 

Prof. Dr. Nils Strodthoff

+49 (0)441 798-2844

V03 S-206

Funding Director

Prof. Dr. Jörg Lücke

+49 (0)441 798-5486

W30 2-201

Scientific Coordinator

Dr. Cassie Short

+49 (0)441 798-5151

A07 0-060

Postal Address

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Gebäude A7, Raum A07-0-060
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118
26129 Oldenburg

Members

The members of the Centre bring together complementary expertise in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, combining methodological innovation with diverse applications across the sciences.

Prof. Dr. Martin Fränzle 

Representative of Faculty II (Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law)
Foundations and Applications of Systems of Cyber-Physical Systems, Department of Computing Science

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Formal verification, arithmetic constraint solving; planning and strategy synthesis for cyber-physical systems; safety and explainability of machine learning; embedded AI; hybrid machine learning
  • Applications: Cyber-physical systems; „smart” infrastructures (e.g., autonomous vehicles)

Prof. Dr. Thilo Gross

Deputy Representative of Faculty V (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Biodiversity Theory, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Network theory; dynamic systems theory; dimensionality reduction; manifold learning
  • Applications: Ecology; social and technical systems (e.g., epidemiology, urban dynamics, opinion spreading, wifi networks, supply chains, metabolism)

Prof. Dr. Alexander K. Hartmann

Representative of Faculty V (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Computational Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Optimisation algorithms; simulating rare events; clustering methods; Monte Carlo simulation
  • Applications: Complex interacting systems; biological and social systems such as RNA folding and disease spread; efficiency of AI systems

Prof. Dr. Andrea Hildebrandt

Representative of Faculty VI (Medicine and Health Sciences)
Psychological Methods and Statistics, Department of Psychology

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Multivariate statistics; statistical learning; psychometric modelling; neurometric modelling; robustness analysis; ambulatory measurement
  • Applications: Neurocognitive psychology; behavioural and health research; individual differences; neurometric, physiological and psychometric data

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Klüner

Deputy Representative of Faculty V (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Quantum chemistry and quantum dynamics; simulation of reaction dynamics; density functional theory; wave-function-based quantum chemistry; multi-reference methods; deep learning
  • Applications: Materials science; catalytic and photochemical reactions

Prof. Dr. Jörg Lücke

Representative of Faculty VI (Medicine and Health Sciences)
Machine Learning, Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning; non-standard distributions; big data; probabilistic machine learning; deep learning
  • Applications: Development of learning algorithms; visual data, acoustic data, medical data and general data for pattern recognition; theoretical foundations of deep learning

Prof. Dr. Andreas Rauh

Representative of Faculty II (Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law)
Distributed Control in Interconnected Systems, Department of Computing Science

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Control-oriented modelling; control and state estimation of dynamic systems; uncertainty quantification; reliable sensitivity analysis; data-based modelling; machine learning with physical priors
  • Applications: Energy informatics and production; robotics; human-machine interaction

Prof. Dr. Peter Ruckdeschel

Representative of Faculty V (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Applied Statistics, Institute of Mathematics

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Functional, distribution-based approaches; statistical learning; uncertainty modelling
  • Applications: Compliance and fraud detection; food chemistry; autonomous driving

Prof. Dr. Nils Strodthoff

Representative of Faculty VI (Medicine and Health Sciences)
Medicine and Health Sciences

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Self-supervised learning, explainability; uncertainty quantification; deep learning
  • Applications: Medicine; physiological time-series data; medical imaging; physics

Prof. Dr. Matthias Wendland

Deputy Representative of Faculty II (Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law)
Digital Law, Department of Economics and Law

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Normative regulatory systems; AI- and data-driven systems (e.g., NLP-based contract analysis)
  • Applications: AI regulation; data economics; robotics; Industry 4.0; e-health; medical AI; autonomous systems; cyber-physical systems; legal consulting

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wingerath

Deputy Representative of Faculty II (Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law)
Data Science, Department of Computing Science

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Handsfree coding; scalable approaches for database and data stream processing
  • Applications: Web data; real-time analytics

Prof. Dr. Antje Wulff

Deputy Representative of Faculty VI (Medicine and Health Sciences)
Big Data in Medicine, Department of Health Services Research

Research Areas of the Centre:

  • Methods: Data integration; big data analytics; decision support systems; semantic data modelling
  • Applications: Medicine; health services; clinical informatics; intensive care environments
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