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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

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The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Specialist Group within the Faculty of Computer Science develops and coordinates (in some cases in collaboration with the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) the curriculum and research activities in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, modules are provided for the Bachelor’s degree programme in Computer Science, as well as for the Master’s degree programmes in Computer Science and Data Science.

Members offering DSSKI specialist group modulesMembers offering courses from other specialist groupsResearch assistants and laboratory engineers
Michael BraunJens-Peter AkelbeinAdriatik Gashi
Alexander del PinoEva BrucherseiferStephan Gimbel
Markus DöhringChristoph BuschHannah Richert
Gunter GrieserElke Hergenröther 
Bernhard HummArnim Malcherek 
Hamed Shariat YazdiRonald Charles Moore 
Melanie SiegelAndreas Müller 
Stefan ZanderOliver Skroch 

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Prof. Dr. Markus Döhring

Markus Döhring studied business informatics at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education and received his Master of Science in Computer...


Science from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in 2009. He completed his doctorate at the Chair of Databases and Information Systems at the University of Jena in 2013.
At the same time, Markus Döhring worked for 11 years in various industrial research and development areas at SAP, most recently until 2015 in data mining-related topics such as social network analysis and predictive maintenance. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a data science senior manager at an analytics competence centre at BASF, which focuses on algorithm-based pattern recognition in large data sets. There, he supervised and designed projects in areas such as product recommendation, business process mining and web mining.
Since March 2018, he has been appointed Professor of Data Science and Fundamentals of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.