Bavaria consolidates AI expertise

TUM professor Sami Haddadin is chairman of the Bavarian Council on AI

The council consists of 21 outstanding representatives from science and business, divided evenly among university faculty and staff, members from non-university research bodies and representatives of the economic sector. The objective of the AI Council is to launch and promote strategies and measures for mobilizing scientific and economic potentials in the field of AI. The Council will also provide important impulses to policymakers and will contribute to the networking of AI research at an international level.

AI made in Bavaria

"The Bavarian Council on AI embodies the AI strategy of the Hightech Agenda Bavaria," says Prof. Haddadin. "It is a particular pleasure and honor for me to lead this fantastic body of experts together with my Co-Chairs. With its membership of outstanding experts from science and business, the Council will help carry on the Bavarian tradition in AI and will set an international standard: AI Made in Bavaria."

In addition to Professor Haddadin, Alena Buyx, Professor for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies  and Director of the TUM Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, is also a member of the Bavarian Council on AI for the university section.

Members of the Bavarian Council on AI also include TUM professors Fabian J. Theis (Co-Chair), as Director of the Institute of Computational Biology at the German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU), Alin Albu-Schäffer, as Director of the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Claudia Eckert, as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), for the Council's non-university research section.