Professional Service (Selection) 1982 Program Chair of the 6th German Conference on AI, GWAI-82, Bad Honnef 1984 – 1985 Department Chair, Department of Computer Science, Saarland, Saarbrücken 1986 – 1988 Chair of the German AI Association (GI/KI) 1989 – 1999 Member of the Board of Trustees of IJCAI Inc. Palo Alto, International Joint Conferences on AI 1990 – 1995 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Christian Doppler Institute for Expert Systems, Vienna University of Technology 1991 – 1993 Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence 1991 Chair of the Association of German AI Institutions 1992 General Chair of IJCAI-93, Chambery, France 1992 – 2001 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the OFFIS Institute at the University of Oldenburg 1995 – today Member of the Executive Committee for IJCAI Conferences 1996 Program Chair of the European Conference on AI, ECAI-96, Budapest 1996 – 2000 Chair of ECCAI, the European Coordination Committee for Artificial Intelligence 1997 Program Co-Chair of the ACL/EACL Conference, Madrid 2000 President of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2002 – 2004 Chairman of the Board of the Science Forum Saar e.V. 2002 – 2022 Trustee of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI); Berkeley, USA 2003 Program Co-Chair of the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Vancouver 2003 – 2009 Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Alberta Ingenuity Center for Machine Learning at the Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2003 – 2010 German Representative of the Highest Advisory Panel for Computer Science/IT Funding Programs, the ISTAG Information Society Technologies Advisory Group of the European Commission 2003 – 2011 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Trento-Haifa Collaboration between the Caesarea Rothschild Institute and ITC-irst, Haifa, Israel 2004 – 2014 Member of the International ICT Research Advisory Board of Alberta (IRAC), Canada 2004 – 2014 Member of the Advisory Board of the International ACM Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2005 Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), Madonna di Campiligio 2005 – 2018 Chairman of the Jury for the Hermes Award for Technical Innovation, Hanover 2006 – today Germany’s Chief Academic Advisor for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Research Union of the German Government under Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel 2006 – today Member of working groups at all national IT summits and digital summits of the Federal Government 2007 – 2018 Member of the Cluster Board and Principal Investigator of the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction”, Saarbrücken 2007 – 2018 Member of the International Graduate School for Computer Science as part of the Excellence Initiative of the DFG, Saarbrücken 2007 – today Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan 2007 Chair of the Jury for the European ICT Prize of the European Commission 2007 – 2011 Member of the Supervisory Board of the T-Labs Research Center at Ben-Gurion University, Ber Sheva, Israel 2008 – 2011 Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), SIMTech, Singapore 2008 – 2014 Member of the SAP Next Business & Technology Advisory Board 2008 – 2020 Member of the University Council of the University of Hamburg 2008 – 2012 Chair of the Technology and Innovation Council (TIR) of the Berlin Senate 2009 – 2011 Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Security Research (CASED), Darmstadt, Germany 2009 – 2018 Member of the Strategy Board and spokesman for Saarland in the BMBF Top Cluster “Software Innovations for the Digital Enterprise” 2009 – 2017 Board Member of the Kalkhof-Rose Foundation, Mainz 2009 – 2017 Member of the Governance Board of the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009 – 2017 Member of the Executive Steering Board of EIT Digital in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology 2010 – heute Member of the Advisory Board of the Artificial Intelligence Division of the German Informatics Society 2010 – today Member of the Board of Trustees of the Innovation Academy of EAI (European Alliance for Innovation), Gent, Belgium 2011 – 2014 Member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy 2011 – 2018 Chairman of the Jury for the National Software Campus 2012 – today Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership of European Commission 2012 – today Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Platform Industrie 4.0 2012 – 2017 Member of the jury for the CeBIT Innovation Award of the BMBF and Deutsche Messe AG 2013 – today Member of the Feigenbaum Prize Committee of AAAI 2014 – 2019 Member and Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan 2015 Member of the Peer Review Committee for Informatics Departments at all Dutch Universities 2015 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Design at the Kyoto University Design School, Kyoto, Japan 2015 Member of the International Advisory Group for Recruiting a New Director at Fondazione Bruno Kessler for ICT in Trento, Italy 2015 Chair of the Search Committee for a new Chair of the EIT Digital KIC of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Brussels, Belgium 2015 – today Chair of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan 2016 – 2020 Member of the University Council of TU Darmstadt 2016 – 2020 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics, Prague, Czech Republic 2016 – 2022 Member of the Digitalization Advisory Board of the Prime Minister of the Saarland 2016 – 2023 Member of the Advisory Board of the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Europe 2016 – 2023 Member of the Board of Advisors of the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS) in Heerlen, the Netherlands 2017 – 2018 President of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ), est. 1822 2017 – today Member of the Steering Committee of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Platform Learning Systems 2017 – today Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), Berlin 2017 – today Member of the High Level International Committee for Collaborative Laboratories of FCT, Lisbon, Portugal 2017 – today Member of the Board of Patrons of My Europe 2100 e.V. 2018 – today Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Technology Center Research Institute, China 2018 – 2019 Member of the Data Ethics Commission of the German Government 2018 – 2022 Member of the Enquêtekommission of the State Parliament of Saarland „Digitalisierung im Saarland – Bestandsaufnahme, Chancen und Maßnahmen”, Saarbrücken 2019 – 2022 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ – the German Research Centre for Geosciences 2019 – 2022 Chairman of the High Level Group at DIN/DKE, the Standards Association of German Industry, for the Roadmap of Standardization in AI 2019 – today Member of the Jury for the German Innovation Award 2019 – today Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC) and the Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production (RICAIP), Prague 2019 – 2025 Member of the International Advisory Committee for Applied R&D of VICOMTECH, San Sebastian, Spain 2019 – 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for IFI Postdoc Program in Computer Science with a focus on AI in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea and Israel, managed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 2019 – today Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of CLAIRE, Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe 2020 – 2024 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Frankfurt Future Council 2020 – 2022 Member of the advisory board of the AI Campus, the learning platform for artificial intelligence 2021 – today Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Constructor University Bremen(CUB) and SIT (Schaffhausen Institute of Technology, Switzerland) 2021 – today Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cluster for Atherothrombosis and Individualised Medicine – curATime 2021 – 2024 Elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ) 2022 – 2025 Chairman of the Executive Board of the AI GRID 2023 – today Member of the Focus Group “Digitalization” of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – German National Academy of Sciences – 2023 – 2024 Member of the Selection Committee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2023 – 2026 Member of the International Advisory Councils (IAC) oft the BRTA (Basque Research and Technology Alliance) in San Sebastian 2024 – 2028 Member of the International Scientific Advisiory Board (ISAB) of ROBOPROX, the czech excellence cluster for robotics and industrial informatics
