Become a Mentor

AI Grid brings you together with talented young AI scientists in Germany.

You benefit from the latest findings in cutting-edge AI topics.

Strengthening Germany as an AI location.

The AI Grid actively promotes research in Germany. It brings together talented young minds and experienced experts to secure the next generation of AI researchers. You will be directly and continuously informed about the latest developments in AI. You are a key figure in an attractive environment in science and industry that gives highly specialized young talents a perspective.

Advancing research.

Selected Master's students and doctoral candidates share their findings with you and keep you up to date with the latest developments in your field. As a mentor, you will support and encourage your mentees by making a scientific contribution to the research topic. You have the opportunity to publish together with your mentees. The publications will be prominently featured in the AI Grid communication.

Give impulses.

As a mentor, you inspire talented young AI researchers and support their scientific and business careers. You offer valuable, pragmatic advice on groundbreaking scientific literature, publication opportunities, and events. You collaborate with your mentees on joint publications. You gain access to cooperative projects and industry contacts through the AI Grid. You support this initiative, which is funded by the Ministry of Education and Research

Inspiring contacts.

You are in direct contact with the most talented young researchers in Europe. You are part of a high-caliber expert network of national and international professors and AI experts. You will get contacts to relevant partners in high-quality research centers, universities all over Europe. You will be invited every year to our multi-day seminar that brings the entire AI Grid community together in one great place.

How do I become a mentor?

Many of our mentors join us through recommendations. If you're interested in becoming a mentor for the AI Grid, please get in touch with us.

Get involved in shaping the next generation of AI 'Made in Europe"

Senior mentors

Holder of the Chair of Multimodal Human-Technology Interaction at the Institute of Computer Science - University of Augsburg

Scientific Director at DFKI

Senior Research Scientist - International Computer Science Institute (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Professor National Institute of Informatics (Tokio, Japan)

Senior Computer Scientist and Head of Research (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA)

Director at DFKI, Head of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research department, University of Bremen/DFKI

Mentors

Sientific Director AI & Robotics at Fraunhofer IML // Lamarr Institute

Senior Research Engineer in RL at InstaDeep GmbH / Max-Plank-Institut, Germany

Head of Decision at Motor AI Berlin, Germany

Director of Innovation & Technology at ControlExpert GmbH, Germany

Managing Director im Hub of Computing and Data Science, University of Hamburg, Germany

Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

VP Product at Sentiance, Belgium

Assistant Professor at the Penn State University, Pennsylvania

Head of Research Group, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Professor (Ph.D., UCLA) and Director of the Ph.D. Program at Penn State University, United States

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Professor of Legal Informatics and Natural Language Processing at the University of Passau, Germany

Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Image Processing and Machine Learning at HAW-Hamburg