Activities

Jakob is a research associate at the Applied AI Lab within the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). His interests include:

Algorithmic Decision Making
Fairness and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (general)
Mathematical Optimization (general)

Please reach out if you are interested in writing a bachelor or master thesis on one of these topics.

Curriculum Vitae

Jakob earned his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In 2017, Jakob graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) with a master’s in Operations Research. Upon graduation, he joined IBM in Armonk, New York (USA), working as a data scientist. After more than 2 years with IBM, Jakob returned to KIT in October 2019, where he is now working towards his PhD.

Publications

2020

Journal Articles

Utilizing Concept Drift for Measuring the Effectiveness of Policy Interventions: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Baier, L.; Kühl, N.; Schöffer, J.; Satzger, G.
2020. European journal of information systems

Conference Papers

DEAL: Deep Evidential Active Learning for Image Classification.
Hemmer, P.; Kühl, N.; Schöffer, J.
2020. 19th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications, December, Miami, Florida, December 14-17, 2020