Ute Schmid

Ute Maria Schmid
EducationTechnische Universität Berlin
University of Koblenz and Landau
Known forinterpretable artificial intelligence
inductive programming
Scientific career
WorkplacesUniversity of Bamberg
Osnabrück University
Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis Erwerb rekursiver Programmiertechniken als Induktion von Konzepten und Regeln: Ein kognitionswissenschaftlicher Zugang zum Erwerb kognitiver Fertigkeiten  (1994)
Bernd Mahr [de]
Klaus Eyferth

Ute Maria Schmid (born 1965) is a German computer scientist whose research interests include interpretable artificial intelligence and inductive programming. She is a professor at the University of Bamberg, in charge of the chair for cognitive systems.

Education and career

Schmid was a high school student at St.-Thomas-Gymnasium Wettenhausen [de]. She studied psychology at the Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Hochschule Landau (which became part of the University of Koblenz and Landau and later the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) and at Technische Universität Berlin, earning a diploma through TU Berlin in 1989. Following this, she continued at TU Berlin, studying computer science. She earned both a second diploma and a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1994, with a dissertation jointly supervised by computer scientist Bernd Mahr [de] and psychologist Klaus Eyferth. She completed a habilitation through TU Berlin in 2002.

After postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University, Schmid worked as an assistant professor at TU Berlin from 1994 until 2001, and as a lecturer at Osnabrück University from 2001 to 2004. She took her present position as a professor at the University of Bamberg in 2004, and served as dean of the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences from 2017 to 2019.

Recognition

Schmid is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, elected in 2022. In 2023, she was named as a Fellow of the German Informatics Society, honoring her interdisciplinary research combining psychology and computer science, her work in primary school computer science education, and her position as a role model for young women in computer science. In 2026, Schmid received the Communicator Award from the German Research Foundation and the Stifterverband for her science communication work in the field of artificial intelligence.

References

  1. ↑ Middle name and birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2024-01-19
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lebenslauf, Technologie Allianz Oberfranken, retrieved 2024-01-19; see also linked German-language curriculum vitae
  3. ↑ Ute Schmid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project; unlike the cv, this lists only Mahr as a doctoral advisor
  4. 1 2 "Ute Schmid", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 19 June 2023, retrieved 2024-01-19
  5. ↑ EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-19
  6. ↑ High distinction, more networking: Prof. Ute Schmid named EurAI Fellow, Fraunhofer Institute, 29 June 2022, retrieved 2024-01-19
  7. ↑ For Her Achievements in Computer Science: Ute Schmid Honoured as GI Fellow, University of Bamberg, 6 October 2023, retrieved 2024-01-19
  8. ↑ "2026 Communicator Award Goes to Computer Scientist Ute Schmid". German Research Foundation. 30 June 2026. Retrieved 2026-07-13.