About

Ute Schmid is full professor of Cognitive Systems at University of Bamberg (Germany), director of the Bamberg Center of AI (BaCAI) and on the board of directors of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). Her research interests are in cognitive AI, interpretable machine learning and inductive programming, knowledge-informed, explainable and interactive machine learning. Application domains of interest are in education, health, and manufacturing. Ute Schmid is fellow of the German Informatics Society and EurAI fellow. For her engagement in supporting women in computer science, she won the Minerva Gender Equality Award of Informatics Europe for her university. Furthermore, since many years she is active in educating the general public about artificial intelligence and is offering workshops for teachers as well as high-school students. For her outreach activities she has been honored with the Rainer-Markgraf-Award.