Sara Magliacane appointed Professor of Machine Learning at Saarland University

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of everyday (working) life. However, AI-based systems – for example, those used to improve medical diagnoses – have one major shortcoming: they are based on statistical patterns and cannot ‘understand’ how cause and effect are related, unlike humans. Newly appointed professor Sara Magliacane aims to fill this gap with her research: ‘We often don't know exactly what the neural networks in the background of an AI-supported system are calculating, which creates reliability and security risks.’ With her research focusing on large and vision language models as well as embodied AI, the computer scientist particularly enriches the DFG-funded  Research Training Group Neuroexplicit Models for Language Processing, Image Recognition and Action Decisions, in which four other computer science research institutes are involved as part of the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), in addition to the departments of computer science, linguistics and language technology at Saarland University.

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