Ulrike Luxburg

Ulrike von Luxburg is a full professor for the Theory of Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her research analyzes machine learning algorithms from a theoretical point of view, tries to understand their implicit mechanisms, and to give formal statistical guarantees for their performance. In this way, she reveals fundamental assumptions, biases, strenghts and weaknesses of widely used machine learning algorithms, for example in the field of explainable machine learning. Next to her own research group, she is coordinating the research consortium "Machine learning: New Perspectives for Science" and the Tübingen CZS Institute for AI and Law. She has served as program chair and general chair for some of the most important machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS and COLT, and her research has received seven best (student) paper awards at NeurIPS, COLT, ALT and IJCAI. In 2024 she received the communicator award, Germany's highest award for science communication. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.