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  • In addition to Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel from the Fraunhofer ITWM and the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern, who has been active as an AI pilot on the topic of “AI and mobility” for the state since November 2020, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer is now the second AI pilot in Rhineland-Palatinate.

    The biotechnology study commissioned by the state has once again made it clear that closer integration of the two areas can lead to enormous acceleration. As part of our AI agenda and our digital strategy, the AI pilots are therefore essential for exchange and networking. Prime Minister Alexander Schweitzer

  • Professor Dr. Anita Schöbel


    Professor Anita Schöbel is head of the Optimization research group in the Department of Mathematics at RPTU. She is the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern.

    The internationally renowned expert, who researches and teaches in the field of artificial intelligence and mobility at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU),Professor Dr. Anita Schöbel, was appointed AI pilot for mobility by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in July 2020.

    In this capacity, it creates a link between science and business in order to tap into the potential of AI for the economy in the area of mobility. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the area of mobility represents an area of potential in which high relevance, unique selling points and innovation potential are seen. In combination with AI, a large number of application scenarios are emerging here.

    I am delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel as our first AI pilot today. She is an internationally renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence and mobility and can already look back on a large number of innovative projects. Ms. Schöbel will give a further boost to AI applications in Rhineland-Palatinate.former Minister of Science Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf


    Professor Dr. Stefan Kramer


    Stefan Kramer is Professor of Data Mining at Johannes Gutenberg University and Professor h.c. at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

    Stefan Kramer has been publishing work on machine learning for 30 years and has been working on life science applications for just as long. The results of his research can be found in more than 200 publications. He is one of the pioneers of machine learning and data mining on graph data and is considered the inventor of so-called propositionalization, the change of representation from relational to propositional in machine learning.

    We want to make optimum use of the synergies between biotechnology and AI in Rhineland-Palatinate and are therefore bringing together the different needs and interests. I am very pleased that with Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer, we have been able to gain an expert at the interface of AI and life science for the interests of these two forward-looking technologies in Rhineland-Palatinate as an AI pilot. Prime Minister Alexander Schweitzer