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Ute Schmid is professor of Applied Computer Science/Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg. She has university diplomas in computer science as well as psychology, and a doctor degree and a habilitation in computer science from TU Berlin. She is member of the board of directors of the Bavarian Institute of Digital Transformation (bidt) and member of the Bavarian AI Council. Furthermore, Ute Schmid is head of the Fraunhofer IIS project group Explainable AI. Research interests of Ute Schmid are in the domain of comprehensible machine learning, explainable AI, and high-level learning on relational data, especially inductive programming. Research topics are generation of visual, verbal and example-based explanations, cognitive tutor systems, and cooperative and interactive learning. Ute Schmid dedicates a significant amount of her time to measures supporting women in computer science and in 2018 won the Minerva Gender Equality Award of Informatics Europe for her university. Since many years she offers and organises computer science workshops, including AI for children and is speaker of the working group AI in Schools of the SIG AI of the German Computer Science Society (GI e.V.).

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