Katharina Morik Editor

Katharina Morik received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1981 and her habilitation from the TU Berlin in 1988. In 1991, she established the chair of Artificial Intelligence at the TU Dortmund University. She is a pioneer of machine learning contributing substantially to inductive logic programming, support vector machines, probabilistic graphical models. In 2011, she acquired the Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 "Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data Analysis", of which she is the spokesperson. and computing architectures together so that machine learning models may be executed or even trained on resource restricted devices. It consists of 12 projects and a graduate school for more than 50 Ph. D. students. She is a spokesperson of the Competence Center for Machine Learning Rhein Ruhr (ML2R) and coordinator of the German competence centers for AI. She is the author of more than 200 publications in prestigious journals and conferences. She was a founding member, Program Chair and Vice Chair of the conference IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) and is a member of the steering committee of and was Program Chair of ECML PKDD. Together with Volker Markl, Katharina Morik heads the working group "Technological Pioneers" of the platform "Learning Systems and Data Science" of the BMBF. Prof. Morik has been a member of the Academy of Technical Sciences since 2015 and of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2016. She has been awarded Fellow of the German Society of Computer Science GI e.V. in 2019.

Wolfgang Rhode has been Professor of Astroparticle Physics at the TU Dortmund University since 2004. After studying physics and philosophy in Freiburg and Wuppertal, he received a PhD in both subjects. He is active in the astroparticle experiments AMANDA, IceCube, MAGIC, FACT and CTA as well as in radio astronomy, throughout with a special focus on data analysis and Monte Carlo development using machine learning methods as developed in the CRC 876. In addition to being an interdisciplinary teacher in philosophy, he was co-founder of the working group "Physics and Philosophy" in in the German Physical Society (DPG) in 2004. As a consequence of the long year cooperation with K. Morik on machine learning in astroparticle physics within the CRC 876, both became co-founder of the DPG-working group "Physics, Modern Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence" in 2017.