TUM’s ninth and tenth Humboldt Professorships

Humboldt Award Winner Stefanie Jegelka researches Artificial Intelligence Image: Suvrit Sra Stefanie Jegelka and Suvrit Sra receive top-level Artificial Intelligence professorships - TUM's ninth and tenth Humboldt Professorships The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has achieved two more victories in the competition for Germany's highest endowed research prize: Prof. Stefanie Jegelka and Prof. Suvrit Sra have each been honored with an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Up to now both researchers have been working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). TUM thus becomes the only German university to have successfully acquired ten Humboldt professorships. Stefanie Jegelka completed her doctoral studies at the University of Tübingen and ETH Zurich in 2012, after which she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. She was then appointed Associate Professor at MIT in Cambridge. As an information scientist she is an expert in artificial neural networks, which among other things can be used to make reliable predictions on the properties of certain molecules, combinations of medicinal active ingredients and their potential side-effects. Mathematician Suvrit Sra received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and until 2015 conducted research in Tübingen at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.