Selected Talks & Media

• [May ‘26] I participated in the panel discussion on AI and the job market at the University of Bayreuth
• [May ‘26] Our ACM TiiS Best-Paper-award-winning article on Imperfections of XAI was featured in the ACM Impact Report #6
• [Apr ‘26] I gave the keynote at the “KI-Zukunftstag Nordbayern” (AI Futureday North Bavaria) on the current state of AI, covered in the German newspaper Nordkurier
• [Dec ‘25] I was interviewed for the FIM 2025 Yearbook
• [Dec ‘25] The Customer Focus Network interviewed me in their Business Rap Format (German only)
• [Oct ‘25] The German Newspaper Bayerischer Kurier interviewed me on current AI trends and cognitive offloading (German only)
• [Oct ‘25] The German radio Station Bremen Zwei interviewed me (German only) on the topic of opinion diversity in modern large language models with relations to our work on utilizing LLMs for political surveys
• [Aug ‘25] The German Newspaper Nordkurier interviewed Christian Rückert and me on our project For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Law Enforcement (FoGG) (German only)
• [Jul ‘25] The German Newspaper Nordkurier interviewed me (German only) and reported on our work on utilizing LLMs for political surveys
• [Apr ‘25] German radio (BR/tagesschau) and TV (BR, Frankenschau, TVO) reported on our new project For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Law Enforcement (FoGG)
• [Jan ‘25] UBT Press reported on our new project For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Law Enforcement (FoGG), funded by the BIDT
• [Jan ‘25] UBT Press reported on our new project FAIRLEA – AI for Law Enforcement, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
• [Nov ‘24] I gave the keynote at the Advisory board meeting at Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall
• [Oct ‘24] I gave a talk on Fairness Benefits of Explainable AI at the AISoLa conference
• [Sep ‘24] I gave an invited keynote at Co-Creating Tomorrow: A Workshop on Human-AI Collaboration in Cologne on “Human-AI Collaboration: Thoughts and Impulses”
• [Sep ‘24] I gave an invited keynote at the BZT event on Digitalization in tourism: Artificial intelligence as the key to more quality (German only) in Nuremberg
• [Aug ‘24] Maria De-Arteaga’s, Jakob Schoeffer’s, and my article was featured in the Texas McCombs blog with the title “When AI Aids Decisions, When Should Humans Override?”
• [Jul ‘24] The Bayreuth Magazine (German only) did a feature on Christian Rückert’s and my work on AI at the interface of law and technology.
• [Jul ‘24] I gave an invited seminar at the University of Potsdam on “Explainable AI” for journalists
• [Jul ‘24] I gave an invited keynote at the Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care and Prevention in Nuremberg on “Fundamentals of AI and Human-AI Collaboration”
• [Jul ‘24] My team and I gave a lecture on AI for over 700 primary school children, which is available on Youtube (German only) and was also covered by TV (German only)
• [Jul ‘24] I gave an invited impulse talk on “AI and Human-AI Interaction” at the IHK Bayreuth
• [Jun ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Explainable AI” at the IBM GenAI Roundtable in Frankfurt
• [Jun ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Explainable AI in Law Enforcement?” at the German Lawyers Day (“Deutscher Anwaltstag 2024”)
• [Jun ‘24] I gave the keynote on “(Gen)AI in the Energy Sector” at the SuedLink/TenneT All Hands Meeting
• [May ‘24] I gave an interview to ZDF on Google’s current AI development, released via ZDF Heute (German only)
• [May ‘24] I gave a radio interview (German only) on the AI Alliance and the reasons for UBT to join it to Radio Z
• [May ‘24] I gave an invited keynote at the Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care and Prevention in Munich as part of the byte AI Roadshow on “Fundamentals of AI and Human-AI Collaboration”
• [Apr ‘24] I gave an invited keynote on “Effects of artificial intelligence on humans” at the BZT Annual Conference, covered by the newspaper Frankenpost (German only)
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited lecture on “Impulses on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” at the BASF XAI Workshop
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making” at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Adam Perer
• [Mar ‘24] I gave an invited talk on “Human-AI Collaboration and Imperfect XAI” at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, hosted by Maria De-Arteaga
• [Feb ‘24] I gave a keynote on “Generative AI: Examples in Medicine” at the Digital Future Dialogue 2024 in Frankfurt
• [Feb ‘24] I gave a talk on “Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making” at the DFG-funded Managerial AI Network
• [Nov ‘23] I was honored to give the keynote at the reception (“Wirtschaftsempfang”) of the city and district of Bayreuth in 2023. Press Release (German only). TV Spot (German only).
• [Nov ‘23] I gave a talk on Appropriate Reliance and Imperfect XAI at ERCIS
• [Nov ‘23] I gave an interview to the Ausgburger Allgemeine newspaper on the current developments at OpenAI
• [Oct ‘23] I gave a talk on Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the AISoLa conference
• [Oct ‘23] I was invited to the panel on “AI and Business Development” at the ETH Launch AI+X Summit
• [Oct ‘23] I gave a seminar on “Current Trends in Human-AI Collaboration: Appropriate Reliance and Complementary Team Performance” at the University of Zurich (UZH) Departement of Informatics (IFI) Fall Semester Colloquium 2023
• [Oct ‘23] I gave the keynote on “A Scientific Perspective on GenAI” at the IBM GenAI Rally venues in Munich and Stuttgart
• [Sep ‘23] I gave a talk on “Human-AI Collaboration and Imperfect XAI” at the Managerial AI Event, funded by the Daimler Benz Foundation
• [Aug ‘23] I was invited to give a lecture on artificial intelligence to high school and college freshmen, which is available at the University of Bayreuth’s Youtube channel (German only)
• [Aug ‘23] I was invited to my former secondary school for a lecture on artificial intelligence School news article (German only)
• [Jul ‘23] I gave a talk on On Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the EIS — a joint Saarland University / University of Bayreuth / TU Dortmund Research Project
• [Jun ‘23] I participated as an appointed expert in the Committee for Science and the Arts in the Bavarian State Parliament on the topic of “Opportunities and Risks of AI in the Science Sector”, see more here UBT Article, Parliament Summary (German only)
• [May ‘23] I gave an interview to the podcast Digi-News on Artificial Intelligence for SMEs (German Only)
• [Apr ‘23] I gave an interview in the local newspaper Bayrische Rundschau (German only)
• [Apr ‘23] I was featured in a portrait article in the local paper of my hometown, Anzeiger für Harlingerland (German only)
• [Mar ‘23] I gave an invited talk on the paper On Explanations, Fairness, and Appropriate Reliance at the mini-conference Analytics und Choice-based Analytics of the Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR)
• [Mar ‘23] I was interviewed for the start of my new job at the University of Bayreuth (German only)
• [Jan ‘23] I talked to Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the consequences and risks of ChatGPT for Google (German only)
• [Dec ‘22] I gave an interview to the MLOps Community with the title “Machine Learning Operations — What is it and Why Do We Need It?”, which you can find on Youtube or Spotify. Or watch these shorts Short 1, Short 2, Short 3
• [Nov ‘22] I gave an invited talk with the title “Towards ML products: MLOps & Complementarity” at the Healthy AI Lab at Chalmers University of Technology (2022), Gothenburg, Sweden, hosted by Fredrik Johansson
• [Nov ‘22] I gave an invited talk at WU Wien, hosted by Christian Haas
• [Mar ‘22] I gave an invited talk entitled “Human-AI Complementarity” at the University of Texas, Austin, hosted by Maria De-Arteaga
• [Dec ‘20] I was invited to the podcast “Insights and Beyond” to talk about the current state of AI, available on Spotify (German) and Spotify (English)
• [Mar ‘19] I gave an invited talk entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems” at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, hosted by Steven O. Kimbrough
• [Feb ‘19] Robin and I gave an invited talk entitled “How to Learn from Others? A Research Agenda on Transfer Machine Learning for Sales Forecasting” at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts hosted by John Cohn
• [Dec ‘18] I gave an invited seminar entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems” at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, hosted by Tava Olsen
• [Jun ‘18] I gave an invited keynote entitled “From Goldfish to God: The (dangerous) Growth of AI” at the Artificial Intelligence Conference of the Canadian-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce