“Exceptional AI is always designed with humans in mind”
CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Head of DFKI’s Cognitive Assistants Research Department, and Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University
Bio
Short Bio
Antonio Krüger is the CEO and Scientific Director of Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), as well as the Scientific Director of the Cognitive Assistants research department at DFKI. Krüger has been a professor of computer science and head of the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab at Saarland University since 2009 and is an internationally renowned expert in human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence (AI). His research focuses on intelligent user interfaces, user modeling, cognitive sciences, and ubiquitous computing. Professor Krüger studied computer science at Saarland University, completing his doctorate in the subject in 1999.
Kurzbio
Antonio Krüger ist CEO und wissenschaftlicher Direktor der Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI) sowie wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Forschungsbereichs Kognitive Assistenzsysteme am DFKI. Seit 2009 ist er Professor für Informatik und Leiter des Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab an der Universität des Saarlandes. Prof. Krüger ist ein international angesehener Experte der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion und Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI). Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Forschungsgebieten Intelligent User Interfaces, User Modeling, Cognitive Sciences und Ubiquitous Computing . Er hat an der Universität des Saarlandes Informatik studiert und 1999 seine Promotion in Informatik abgeschlossen.
Appointments and Memberships
- Member of the Research and Science Council, Carinthia
- Member and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of OFFIS e.V.
- Member and Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- Board of Trustees InnoCluster 4.0 Montan-Stiftung-Saar, Dillingen
- Member of the acatech Senate (German Academy of Science and Engineering)
- Member of the Advisory board of K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH
- Member of the Science Award Jury up to and including 2025, EHI Foundation
- Member of the Advisory Board of RWTH Aachen AI Centre
- Jury work as part of the INVITE innovation competition (Digitale Plattform Berufliche Weiterbildung)
- Member Advisory Board of the Pro2Future International Scientific
- Member of the Advisory Board of The Bridge Incubator GmbH
- Former member of the Enquete Commission ‘Artificial Intelligence – Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential’, German Bundestag
- Member of the Italian Academy of Engineering Sciences/ITATEC/Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia
Scientific publications and more information on his teaching activities can be found on the UMTL website.
News & Media
Prof. Antonio Krüger regularly engages with the media, discussing topics such as recent AI developments and trends, Twinned AI, Human-Machine-Interaction, Industrial AI, AI transfer into economy and society, Germany’s and Europe’s AI competitiveness, and Responsible AI/AI Safety.
Selected media appearances:
Start für KI-Campus – wie ist Deutschland aufgestellt?
heute journal
Das könnte der Schlüssel für autonome Roboter sein
Handelsblatt
Antonio Krüger über KI-Technologien
Tagesthemen
Recent News
Second key update to the AI Safety Report: Technical and organizational approaches to risk management
Prof. Antonio Krüger, the CEO of DFKI, is one of 96 AI experts involved in the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, initiated by the British government in 2023.
DFKI supervisory board elects new chair and deputy chair
Prof. Antonio Krüger welcomed the new chairman of the supervisory board, Prof. Dr. Oscar-Werner Reif, and deputy chairman, Dr. Lutz Rumkorf, at the DFKI supervisory board meeting in Berlin.
All Hands Meeting of AI Competence Centers: „Working together to put Europe on the AI map“
In his opening speech at this year’s All Hands Meeting of the German AI Competence Centers, Prof. Antonio Krüger addressed the central role of European cooperation in the field of AI.
Antonio Krüger is the new head of the scientific committee of the AI Competence Centers
The DFKI and five centers at various universities form the network of German Competence Centers for Research on Artificial Intelligence. Together, these six groups represent the central core of the German AI research ecosystem.
All DFKI News can be found here.
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Contact
“The advance of AI is unstoppable, presenting us with the challenge of balancing innovation with responsibility. The key to developing socially and environmentally responsible AI that can transform the industrial value chain lies in research.” – Prof. Antonio Krüger
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