Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Kai-Uwe Kühnberger received the master's degree in linguistics, philosophy, and German literature from the University of Tübingen, in 1996, and the PhD degree in computational linguistics from the University of Tübingen, in 2002. He was a visiting scholar with Indiana University, Bloomington from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2001 he was a research associate with the University of Tübingen (computational linguistics), from 2001 to 2003 research associate with Osnabrück University (artificial intelligence), and from 2003 to 2009 junior professor for artificial intelligence with Osnabrück University. Since 2009 he is University Professor for Artifical Intelligence with Osnabrück University. He got the PhD Award of the University of Tübingen, in 2002, he was a SICSA fellow (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance), in 2009, and was awarded an IBM Faculty Award for achievements in Cognitive Computing, in 2016. He published more than 130 papers with international conferences and in international journals. He was involved as PI in many research projects funded, for example, by the EU, the German Research Foundation, different German federal ministries, and foundations. He served as a survey editor for the journal Cognitive Systems Research (2008 to 2019) and was a member of the program committee of most major AI conferences. His major research interests are cognitively inspired AI technologies, computational creativity, hybrid systems, and AI applications.