New Doctoral College with several EXDIGIT researchers

A new Doctoral College entitled “Human-Centered AI: From Data & Algorithms to Interfaces” has been approved, and several EXDIGIT researchers are among the faculty and fellows!

This Doctoral College (DSP = Doctoral School PLUS) builds on existing and internationally visible research in Salzburg, and it aims to extends the already established collaborative network by bringing together scientists from statistics & data science, reinforcement learning, algorithmic research, geoinformatics, privacy engineering, human computer interaction, and the techno-legal field.

Within the DSP, we will jointly do research on how algorithms, law, spatial data, and design produce statistically valid, transparent, ethically reflected, and human centered AI systems. In other words, how can artificial intelligence be consistent with application requirements, human values, understandability & interpretability, and governance?

The new Doctoral College creates a platform for interdisciplinary research, uniting technological excellence with societal responsibility. And on a higher level, the DSP strives to establish Human-Centered AI as an interdisciplinary field of scientific synergy where data, algorithms, interaction, and ethics work together to enable intelligent systems that are powerful, reproducible, and responsible.

Among the fellows are EXDIGIT doctoral researchers Cansu Demir, Yu Dong, Loise Kanini, Wanda Lauth, Michael Linortner, Lea Maislinger.

The DSP faculty includes Arne Bathke, Zahra Dabiri, Frank Pallas, Manfred Tscheligi, and Georg Zimmermann.

Congratulations to all of you!