Christian Igel

Christian Igel is a professor at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and serves as the director of the SCIENCE AI Centre at the University of Copenhagen. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, earning his Doctoral degree from Bielefeld University in 2002 and his Habilitation from Ruhr-University Bochum in 2010. Before joining DIKU, he was a W1 professor for Optimization of Adaptive Systems at the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-University Bochum, from 2003 to 2010. Appointed as a professor with special duties in machine learning at DIKU in 2010, he became a full professor in 2014. Igel is a fellow of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and serves as an editor for several journals, including the German Journal on Artificial Intelligence (KI) and the Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ). His research interests include deep neural networks, kernel-based methods, evolution strategies for optimization, reinforcement learning, and applying machine learning to achieve sustainable development goals.