THE FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE WELCOMES HONORARY PROFESSOR JENS LEHMANN

Prof. Jens Lehmann is honorary professor for "Intelligent Information Systems" at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and will offer seminars on "Conversational AI" and "Representation Learning for Knowledge Graphs". He leads the research group Smart Data Analytics. His research interests include knowledge graphs, machine learning, question answering and dialog systems. He works primarily on combining structured knowledge representation and machine learning to build intelligent systems.

Prof. Lehmann is a Principal Scientist at Amazon, where he works on conversational AI, knowledge graphs, and generalized intelligence at Alexa AI. From 2019 to 2022, he led the Fraunhofer IAIS branch in Dresden. Prof. Jens Lehmann has authored more than 300 articles in international journals and conferences, which have been cited more than 25,000 times and have an h-index of more than 60, according to Google Scholar. He has received 16 best paper awards, including "test-of-time" awards for the retrospective impact of a paper over the past 5, 7, or 10 years. He has coordinated and participated in several large-scale research projects, including major national AI initiatives such as OpenGPT-X and SPEAKER (B2B voice assistant platform). Prof. Lehmann is the founder, leader, or contributor to several open-source and community projects. For example, the DBpedia project, which he co-founded, extracts information from Wikipedia and is used in research and practice as the core dataset of the Linked Open Data initiative. He also led the DL-Learner project, which provides algorithms for supervised machine learning in description logics based on new theoretical results.

Prof. Lehmann has been active in research since 2006. He received his PhD with distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Leipzig in 2010 and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Bristol in 2006. Prof. Lehmann is an ELLIS fellow, i.e. recognized as a leading AI reseacher in Europe. He is also a principal investigator in the ScaDS.AI center of excellence. In 2021 and 2020, he was ranked 3rd and 4th most influential scientists in the field of knowledge engineering by AMiner.

Dresden is his long-time home: "I am connected to TU Dresden via the ScaDS.AI center of excellence and multiple research projects in the past. After my studies here until 2006, I am coming full circle. Apart from the teaching aspects, the honorary professorship also enables a deeper cooperation between Amazon and TU Dresden."