ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig
ScaDS.AI (Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig is a competence center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Big Data with locations in Dresden and Leipzig. It is one of the five new AI centers in Germany funded under the federal government’s AI strategy. In addition to the funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), ScaDS.AI is also financed by the Free State of Saxony. It is established as a permanent research facility at both locations with strong connections to the local universities: the TUD Dresden University of Technology, as a CIDS department, and the Leipzig University.
Our team consists of more than 180 people, including renowned international researchers as well as highly skilled professionals in administrative and communicative roles. With more than 60 principal investigators, two Humboldt Professorships and up to twelve planned AI Professorships we support excellence in research and teaching in Dresden and Leipzig. Promoting young talent is also an important part of our work, therefore we have established four Junior Research Groups that meaningfully complement our current research topics.
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Research Topics
Team

Director of ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig
NameProf. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel
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Administration

Dr. René Jäkel
Group leader Big Data and AI
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Thomas Bruderrek
Secretary ScaDS.AI & AI Professorships
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Kristina Krummer-Meier
Secretary ScaDS.AI
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Public Relations Manager
NameGina Valentin
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AI Professorships

Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Färber
Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics
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Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr. Simon Razniewski
Knowledge Aware Artificial Intelligence
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Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr. Martin Weigert
Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding
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Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr. Jakob Runge
Data Science
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Scientific and technical staff
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
NameSyed Hur Abbas
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NameDr.-Ing. Dörthe Arndt
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NameIrem Aydin
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NameGiulia Bahms
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NameCaterina Barrasso
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NameSarah Naomi Bolz
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NameIlia Burenko
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NameErik Daniel
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Dr. Sandra Hummel
group leader
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Research Associate
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Leitung Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe
NameDr. Claudia Loitsch
Bedarfsorientiertes KI-Coaching für Studierende, Projektleitung
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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
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