is a professor for Computer Science and head of the Database Systems and Data Mining Group at LMU Munich. His fundamental research on data mining and database technologies with application domains in engineering, business, life science and humanities yielded more than 300 scientific publications so far. He serves on many program committees and scientific boards and is co-chair of the LMU Data Science Lab, the ZD.B Innovation Lab, the Munich School of Data Science @ Helmholtz, TUM & LMU (MuDS) and of the elite Master program in Data Science at LMU.

is a professor for Computational Statistics at LMU Munich since 2015 and head of the Münchener R-Kurse. His research interests are data science, machine learning, model selection, model-based optimization, statistical software and parallel computing. Prof. Bischl is also a member of the steering committee of the Data Science Certificate Program of the LMU, where he teaches Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

holds the chair for Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence at TU Munich since 2009. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany. Subsequently he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and one year as a permanent researcher at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ. From 2005 until 2009 he was associate professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. In 2016, Prof. Cremers received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, the biggest award in German academia.