DSP-Kolleg

Human-Centered AI: From Data & Algorithms to Interfaces

The ‘Human-Centered AI: From Data & Algorithms to Interfaces’ Doctoral College explores how artificial intelligence can be aligned with application-driven needs, societal values, comprehension, and governance. It integrates Statistics/Data Science, Reinforcement Learning, Algorithmics, Geoinformation, Privacy Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and Techno-Legal Research to examine AI as a socio-technical system. The college investigates how algorithms, law, and design can jointly produce statistically valid, transparent, lawful, and human-centered AI. It combines algorithmic theory and AI systems research with Salzburg’s strengths in the areas of geoinformation, as well as data science and interaction design. Through methodological rigor, computational innovation, and participatory research, the program fosters AI that is interpretable, adaptive, and ethically embedded in human contexts. The overarching mission of the DSP is to define Human-Centered AI as a field of synergy – uniting data, algorithms, interaction, and ethics to enable intelligent systems that are effective, interpretable, and socially responsible.

  • Doctoral Candidates
    Cansu Demir
    Topic: Cooperative Human-Machine Interaction with In-Vehicle Intelligent Agents in Automated Vehicles
    Supervisor: Alexander Meschtscherjakov

    Yu Dong
    Topic: Freely Available Earth Observation in Support of Environmental Policy Compliance
    Supervisor: Thomas Blaschke

    Martin Geroldinger
    Topic: Advances in the Analysis of Multivariate Statistics and Missing Data in Rare Disease Settings
    Supervisor: Arne Bathke

    Loise Kanini
    Topic: Semi- and nonparametric multivariate covariate adjustment
    Supervisor: Arne Bathke

    Florian Kienhöfer
    Topic: Electricity Grid and Energy Simulation with AI
    Supervisor: Johannes Scholz

    Moritz Kubesch
    Topic: Deliberate Discomfort in interaction design
    Supervisor: Verena Fuchsberger-Staufer

    Wanda Lauth
    Topic: Multivariable longitudinal prediction models
    Supervisor: Georg Zimmermann

    Michael Linortner
    Topic: tba
    Supervisor: Andreas Uhl

    Lea Maislinger
    Topic: New developments in Dependence Modeling: Special classes of copulas, fractal support and more
    Supervisor: Wolfgang Trutschnig

    Antoni Rayzhekov
    Topic: Intelligent interfaces for affective interactions with augmented everyday objects
    Supervisor: Manfred Tscheligi

    Michael Reichmann
    Topic: Sounding Movement: Toward a Design Framework and Toolkit for Real-Time Sonification – An HCI and Sonic Interaction Design Approach
    Supervisor: Alexander Meschtscherjakov

    Kai Schärer
    Topic: tba
    Supervisor: Wolfgang Trutschnig

    Thomas Schneidergruber
    Topic: Virtual Shepherd
    Supervisor: Johannes Scholz

    Eleni Stefanidi
    Topic: Meaningful Interaction with Digital Data in Motion
    Supervisor: Alexander Meschtscherjakov

    Sarah Trausner
    Topic: Forecasting and Optimization Under Constraints and Uncertainty for Sustainable Industrial Energy Systems
    Supervisor: Simon Hirländer

    Jachin Jonathan van Ek
    Topic: Deep Learning-based Mapping and Monitoring of Natural Hazards and Geomorphological Processes using Optical and SAR Imagery
    Supervisor: Dirk Tiede

    Franz Welscher
    Topic: Unstructured Text Analysis & Geoparsing
    Supervisor: Johannes Scholz

    Matthias Winter
    Topic: Carbon Footprint, Supply Chain traceability & securit
    Supervisor: Johannes Scholz

  • Doctoral Supervision Team
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Bathke (Coordinator, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Meschtscherjakov (Co-Coordinator, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Pallas (Co-Coordinator, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)

    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Blaschke (Department of Geoinformatics)
    Dr. Zahra Dabiri (Department of Geoinformatics)
    Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sebastian Forster (Department of of Computer Science)
    Ap. Prof. Dr. Verena Fuchsberger-Staufer (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Dr. Simon Hirländer (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Univ-Prof. DI(FH) Dr. Johannes Scholz (Department of Geoinformatics)
    Assoz-Prof. Dr. Dirk Tiede (Department of Geoinformatics)
    Univ-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Trutschnig (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Tscheligi (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)
    Dr. Georg Zimmermann (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces)

  • Board of Experts
    Ass.- Professor Benjamin Robson (Department of Earth Science) Geomatics and Remote Sensing Bergen/Norway
    Prof. Markus Pauly (Faculty of Statistics, Trustworthy Data Science Center Statistics), Data Science Dortmund/Germany
    Prof. Philippe Palanque (Department Reliability Systems and Software HCI), Automation, Aviation Toulouse/France