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12/03/2024 | Neuberufene

Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast

New at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science

Portrait of Professor PotthastImage: Swen Reichhold

In April 2024, Dr. Martin Potthast was appointed Professor of Deep Semantic Learning at the University of Kassel and joined the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence hessian.AI. He studied computer science at the University of Paderborn (2001-2006) and successfully completed his doctorate at the Bauhaus University Weimar in December 2011, where he subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Bauhaus Lab. He was appointed junior professor at Leipzig University in October 2017 and full professor in October 2023. Potthast is a founding member and board member of the ScaDS.AI Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
His research focuses on language technologies, search engines and the analysis and synthesis of information. Martin Potthast contributes to the research areas of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.