Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg

I am a professor for computer science, with research focus in 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.

News. August 2019: Our postdoc Michael Perrot received the distinguished paper award IJCAI, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, for the paper "Boosting for Comparison-Based Learning".

July 2019: We are looking for a postdoc on any topic that is related to our work on learning theory, see here.

Research. My research focus is on theoretical questions about unsupervised machine learning, in particular the statistical analysis of algorithms on random graphs and ordinal data analysis.   Publications     Our research seminar

Teaching. For all questions concerning teaching please visit our teaching page (also includes consultation hour times, topics for Bachelor / Master theses, comments about taking exams).

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 events. In particular, I organized a huge discussion seminar, with students and professors across many university discipines such as computer science, political science, the school of law, economics, philosophy and ethics: KI, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Verantwortung: Ein interaktives Seminar zur Meinungsbildung.

• I am coordinating the research cluster "Machine learning: New Perspectives for Science", jointly with Philipp Berens.
• I am in the executive board of NeuRIPS

• Research cluster "Machine learning: New Perspectives for Science"
• Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems
• Max Planck Fellowship at the MPI for Intelligent Systems
• Tübingen Competence Center for Machine Learning
• DFG Research Unit Structural Inference in Statistics: Adaptation and Efficiency
• DFG Collaborative Research Centre Multi-Site Communication in the Brain
• DFG Collaborative Research Centre Robust Vision