Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg

I am a professor for computer science, with research focus on the theory of machine learning. I am also a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. For family reasons, I currently work part-time.

Research. My research focus is on theoretical questions about unsupervised machine learning: understanding implicit biases and assumptions of machine learning algorithms, giving formal guarantees to some algorithms, and proving how other algorithms systematically fail.   Publications     Our research seminar     Research questions    

I am coordinating the research cluster Machine learning: New Perspectives for Science (jointly with Philipp Berens).

Unusual times require unusual measures. My lectures are on youtube. Consider watching the ones on ML and society, or ``Wie funktioniert maschinelles Lernen? Eine Einführung für jedermann und -frau'' (Video, als geschriebener Text). .

We are still looking for a postdoc on any topic that is related to our work on learning theory, see here.

Public AI discussion. In the city of Tübingen, and also in the wider context of Germany, there is an ongoing discussion about research in artificial intelligence and its impact on future society. I find this discussion important and actively participate(d) in quite a number of past events (my favorite one: KI, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Verantwortung: Ein interaktives Seminar zur Meinungsbildung). You might conisider to watch my lectures on ML and society, or the german lecture Wie funktioniert maschinelles lernen.

Teaching: see here (also includes consultation hour times, topics for Bachelor / Master theses, comments about taking exams).