RPTU KAISERSLAUTERN-LANDAU - W3 “Responsible AI”

The department of computer science at RPTU is seeking qualified candidates for a full professorship (W 3) in computer science with a focus on “Responsible AI”.

Frist: 25.05.2025

Kaiserslautern is one of the most prominent and important computer science locations in Germany. The top-ranked Department of Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau combines fundamental research and education with excellence in applied research. There are many opportunities for cooperation with affiliated research institutes such as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).

In 2024, RPTU and MPI-SWS launched the AI, Computing, & Society (AICS) initiative to tackle the pressing scientific and engineering challenges posed by our increasingly AI-driven computing-mediated societies. The AICS initiative will bring together world-leading computer, social, and cognitive scientists across both RPTU and the Max Planck Society (MPS) in a common endeavour to investigate and steer the rapid developments in AI technologies and the myriad ways in which AI systems are being integrated into and reshaping our personal and societal lives. As part of the initiative, RPTU and MPI-SWS have established a cluster of faculty positions which will also help bridge technical AI systems research with social and cognitive sciences.

The department of computer science at RPTU is seeking qualified candidates for a full professorship (W 3) in computer science with a focus on “Responsible AI”. Applicants should be able to demonstrate excellent and international research achievements in one or more of the following areas or in closely related fields.

  • Safety, robustness, and trustworthiness of AI systems
  • Human-AI alignment & interaction
  • Explainable AI systems & interpretability of AI models
  • Fairness and privacy concerns with AI systems
  • Governance, policy, and regulation of AI systems
  • Behavior, cognition, & reasoning in generative AI systems
  • AI agents mediating markets/ media & multi-agent systems
  • Evaluations of data, models, and systems

We expect excellent and internationally visible research performance, exhibited through publications of high-rated conferences and/or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, KDD, ICWSM, CSCW, CHI, EC).

Applicants are further expected to have excellent didactic skills and teaching experience. Courses in the Bachelor‘s program are held in German, while courses in the Master‘s program are typically taught in English. Initial knowledge of the German language is not required, but it is expected that professors can give courses in German within 3-4 years after appointment.

The complete announcement can be found on the RPTU homepage:
https://rptu.de/s/w3aics
(Deadline: 25.05.2025)