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Prof. Dr. Tanya Braun

Current affiliations

  • Junior professorship of practical computer science - modern aspects of data processing / data science (Prof. Braun)
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0000-0003-0282-4284

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Statistical relational artificial intelligence, specifically, probabilistic inference (probability- as well as decision-theoretic) in relational domains
  • Human-aware AI, specifically, inference in human-aware agents
  • Text understanding, specifically, annotations and context representations

Academic Education

02/2020Doctorate, University of Lübeck, Dr. rer. nat.
10/2013 - 09/2015Studies Computational Informatics, Hamburg University of Technology, Degree: M.Sc.
10/2010 - 09/2013Studies Computational Informatics, Hamburg University of Technology, Degree B.Sc.

Work Experience

since 11/2021Assistant professor
03/2020 - 10/2021Research Associate (PostDoc)
12/2015 - 02/2020Research Assistant (grad student)

Publications

Approximate Lifted Model Construction
Luttermann, Malte; Speller, Jan; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya; Möller, Ralf; Hartwig, Mattis (2025)
In: Kwok, James (eds.), IJCAI-25 Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 9077-9085. Montreal:  / IJCAI Organization. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2025/1009
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
Combining Local Symmetry Exploitation and Reinforcement Learning for Optimised Probabilistic Inference - A Work In Progress
Hamid, Sagad; Braun, Tanya (2025)
In: arXiv:2503.08786.
Research article in digital collection | Preprint | Peer reviewed | Published
Compression versus Accuracy: A Hierarchy of Lifted Models
Speller, Jan; Luttermann, Malte; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (2025)
In: Lynce, I.; et al. (eds.), ECAI-25 Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 5051-5058. Online: IOS Press. doi:10.3233/FAIA251420
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
Counting Agents in Partially Observable Stochastic Games
Karabulut, Nazlı Nur; Braun, Tanya (2025)
In: Sauerwald, Kai; Thimm, Matthias (eds.), ECSQARU-25 Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, 207-222. Hagen: Springer Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05134-9_15
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
Towards Explainability of Approximate Lifted Model Construction: A Geometric Perspective
Speller, Jan; Luttermann, Malte; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (2025)
In: Melzer, Sylvia; Peukert, Hagen; Thiemann, Stefan; Bender, Magnus; Özçep, Özgür L.; Russwinkel, Nele; Sauerwald, Kai; Wolter, Diedrich (eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence and Formal & Cognitive Reasoning co-located with 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. CEUR-WS.
Research article in digital collection (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published
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Projects

HAPPI - Human-aware PGMs and Probabilistic Inference via Lifted Model Reconciliation (HAPPI)
Duration: 15/03/2024 - 31/12/2026
Funded by: MKW - Förderlinie „Künstliche Intelligenz/Maschinelles Lernen“ - KI-Starter
Type of project: Individual project

Talks

Compression versus Accuracy: A Hierarchy of Lifted Models
Speller, Jan; Luttermann, Malte; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (29/10/2025)
28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), Bologna
Type of talk: scientific talk
Tutorial: Exploiting Structure in Decision Making under the Lens of Recent Advances in StaRAI
Gehrke, Marcel; Karabulut, Nazlı Nur; Marwitz, Florian; Braun, Tanya (23/09/2024)
KI-24 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Würzburg
Type of talk: scientific talk
What Can Explainability Mean for Probabilistic Inference?
Braun, Tanya (27/06/2024)
sAIOnARA 2024 (Conference on Shaping Trustworthy AI: Opportunities, Innovation, and Achievements for Reliable…, Bielefeld
Type of talk: scientific talk
What’s Intelligence Got To Do With It? An Introduction into Artificial Intelligence Research
Braun, Tanya (08/12/2023)
Grand Rounds - Interdisziplinäres Klinikcurriculum, University Hospital Münster, Department of Mental Health
Type of talk: scientific talk
Let's Talk about Palm Leaves - From Minimal Data to Text Understanding
Bender, Magnus; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (26/09/2023)
46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 26-29 September 2023, Berlin, Germany, Berlin
Type of talk: scientific talk
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