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Co-Director hessian.AI
Kristian Kersting is Full Professor at TU Darmstadt and Co-Director of the Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI). He is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and recipient of the German AI Prize 2019. Before joining TU Darmstadt, he held positions at TU Dortmund, Fraunhofer IAIS, and MIT. He has published 300+ peer-reviewed papers and serves on the editorial boards of JAIR and Machine Learning.
Kristian Kersting's research bridges statistical relational learning, deep probabilistic programming, and neuro-symbolic AI. His work on lifted inference and sum-product networks has advanced efficient reasoning in high-dimensional structured domains. Recent focus areas include physics-informed machine learning and trustworthy AI.
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K. Kersting, M. Buckley, N. Lawrence
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We present a framework for incorporating physical constraints into deep learning models for climate prediction. By embedding conservation laws, symmetry principles, and thermodynamic constraints directly into the network architecture, we achieve 40% reduction in prediction error for regional climate projections while maintaining physical consistency. The approach is demonstrated on precipitation forecasting, wind energy prediction, and extreme weather event detection across European regions.
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Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Climate Science
K. Kersting, M. Buckley, N. Lawrence
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From Statistical Relational to Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence
L. De Raedt, S. Dumancic, R. Manhaeve, G. Marra
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Einsum Networks: Fast and Scalable Learning of Tractable Probabilistic Circuits
R. Peharz, S. Lang, A. Vergari, K. Kersting
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