About The Guest
Philipp Slusallek is scientific director and member of the executive board at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for computer graphics since 1999, a principle investigator at the German Excellence-Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” from 2007 to 2019, and director for research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009-2017. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. He is a member of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering), a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission, a fellow of Eurographics, and has been associate editor for Computer Graphics Forum. Prof. Slusallek co-founded the European AI initiative CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, claire-ai.org) in 2018.
He originally studied physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen (Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in computer science from Erlangen University. His research covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence in a broad sense, simulated/digital reality, real-time realistic graphics, high-performance computing, novel programming models for CPU/GPU/FPGA, computational science, and others.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slusallek/
Claire Initiative: claire-ai.org
DFKI: https://www.dfki.de/en/web/
About The Episode
On the podcast I’ve been fortunate to bring on excellent guests to talk about really exciting technologies that will impact and automate jobs in different industries. One of the technologies that I’ve had the most requests for is Artificial Intelligence, and with good reason as it has been getting significant media attention for the past several years. So today’s episode will specifically look at AI, and perhaps more importantly, also look at the differences between how AI is being developed and implemented in Europe as compared to China or the US. My guest is Philipp Slusallek, he is the scientific director and member of the executive board at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. If you’ve ever been interested in hearing more about what the state of AI is in Europe, how AI will impact jobs, and what the challenges are for future of European AI development, then this episode is for you.
