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Meet Our Team

Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. SAHIN ALBAYRAK

Chief Executive Officer


Dr. rer. oec. NURI KAYAOGLU

Executive Officer


Ph.D. FIKRET SIVRIKAYA

Research Director


Dr.-Ing. JAN KEISER

Senior Researcher


Multi-Agent Systems, Open Service Platforms, Future Mobility (Autonomous Driving, Intermodal Mobility, E-Mobility)

Dr.-Ing. TOBIAS KÜSTER

Senior Researcher


Agent-oriented Software Engineering,
Business Process Modelling,
Optimization Algorithms

MANUEL HENKE

Researcher


Connected, Platform Economy, Cooperative & Automated Mobility, Visualization of Autonomous System

SHIFA IMRAN

Researcher


Edge Computing, Container Orchestration, Machine Learning

NILS OLE BREUER

Researcher


Explainable AI, Causality, Fairness in AI, Robust ML

ABDULLAH KIWAN

Researcher


Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI

BIANCA SCHEIBEL

Researcher


Cybersecurity, Machine Learning

JAKOB STRAFER

Researcher


Computer Security, Network Monitoring, Intrusion Detection Systems, Software Design

KETAN SUNIL MOTLAG

Researcher


Autonomous Systems, Explainable Artificial Intelligence

PHILIPP GROSENICK

Researcher


SEBASTIAN PETERS

Researcher


Telecommunications, 5G and Beyond, Edge Computing, Vehicular Communications

FARIHA GHIASI

Researcher


Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Transfer Learning, Attentional Mechanism

TOLGA AKAR

Researcher


Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs)

THOMAS CARGANICO

Researcher


EVGENY GORELIK

Researcher


Machine Learning, Computer Vision

HASAN YILMAZ

Communications Manager


Press and Public Relations

YEKTA SECKIN SATIR

Technical Support


IoT Software Engineering

SEBASTIAN PREUSSE

UX/UI Designer


Human computer interaction


ONUR ALI ÜLKER

Technical Support


System Administrator


ÖZKAN BAK

Graphic Designer


Visual Communication Design


OMID KARIMNIA

Researcher


IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineer, DevOps, Linux


YUCHEN LIU

Researcher


ADAS, Robotics


ABDULLAH SARDOGAN

Researcher


Smart Spaces, AI in Health & Medicine, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Explainable AI


ANDRES GAVILAN

Project Assistant


Technical Support


MORITZ JULIAN HEINE

Student research assistant

NYKIA REIS

Student research assistant

SERAPHIN ZUNZER

Student research assistant

SUMIT NAMDEO GORE

Student research assistant

DAN LENNARD HÄNSCH

Student research assistant

OSKAR FELIX KUPKE

Student research assistant

ROBERT KARSTEN STREHLOW

Student research assistant

HENRI EVARD

Student research assistant

YONATAN DEMISSIE

Student research assistant

FINN HARMS

Student research assistant

CEDRIC BRAUN

Student research assistant

YUXIN XUE

Student research assistant

GÖKBERK GÜRHAN

Student research assistant

PETAR ILIEV

Student research assistant

MARYNA HONCHARENKO

Student research assistant