From Learning Machines to Responsible: {AI}

Prof. Dr. 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. She retired in 2023. As a pioneer of European machine learning, she contributed to inductive logic programming, genetic algorithms, automated learning, Support Vector Machines, and Probabilistic Graphical Models. In 2011, she acquired the Collaborative Research Center CRC 876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data Analysis” consisting of 12 projects and a graduate school. After the longest possible funding period of 12 years, the CRC ended with the publication of 3 books on Resource-Constrained Machine Learning (De Gruyter). She has participated in numerous European research projects and has been the coordinator of one. She was a founding member and Program Chair of the conference series IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) and has been a member of the steering committee of ECML PKDD until 2025. She is a co-founder of the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Morik is a member of the Academy of Technical Sciences and of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has been awarded Fellow of the German Society of Computer Science GI e.V. in 2019.