Keynote Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

To Be Confirmed

Prof. Dr. Ing. Michael Färber is a W3 Full Professor at the ScaDS.AI Center, TU Dresden, where he has led the research group Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics since April 2024. He completed a Diplom-Informatik (equivalent to an M.Sc.) at Ulm University, a B.A. in Philosophy, and a doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2017. His career includes postdoctoral positions at the University of Freiburg and Kyoto University, where he held a prestigious JSPS fellowship, followed by a deputy full professorship at KIT from 2020 to 2024. His research covers natural language processing, knowledge representation, and machine learning, extending to neurosymbolic and explainable AI. He has authored over 130 publications in leading venues such as AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, and KDD, and his work has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award at ISWC 2023. As a principal investigator, he has secured approximately €2.5 million in third-party funding across more than twenty projects. His teaching experience includes courses with up to 600 students and a 2019 faculty teaching award, and he has supervised numerous bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral theses. He also contributes extensively to academic service, serving as a reviewer for major conferences, journals, and funding agencies, and as a member of institutional and policy committees, including the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee.