Medical Information Sciences Vortragsreihe (2 CME Punkte)  Prof. Dr. Carl Herrmann 

Prof. Dr. Carl Herrmann 
Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg
 
„Opening the Black Box: Interpretable AI Models in Genomics“
 
In this talk, I will review some recent developments in the field of interpretable AI models for genomics data. These models can be used to predict perturbation effects from drug treatment of genetic effects, or infer gene regulatory networks.
Prof. Dr. Carl Herrmann has been a Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Heidelberg since 2023. From 2018 to 2023, he was an Assistant Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Between 2013 and 2018, he led a research group in the Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics at DKFZ Heidelberg and was an Assistant Professor at the IPMB, University of Heidelberg. From 2003 to 2013, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Marseille and IBDML, CNRS (France).
Prof. Herrmann has also been involved in various research and training initiatives, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Research and Training Group "Big Data Research in the Biosciences" from 2018 to 2021, and as a member of the HGS MathComp Graduate School since 2021.
 
Date: July 16th 2024 (starting 5:30 pm)
Place: Lecture Hall N2045 (Faculty of Applied Informatics)