Prof. Dr. Tanya Braun

Current affiliations

Junior professorship of practical computer science - modern aspects of data processing / data science (Prof. Braun)
Einsteinstr. 62, 48149 Münster
Website

Academic profiles

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

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
02/2020	Doctorate, University of Lübeck, Dr. rer. nat.
10/2013 - 09/2015	Studies Computational Informatics, Hamburg University of Technology, Degree: M.Sc.
10/2010 - 09/2013	Studies Computational Informatics, Hamburg University of Technology, Degree B.Sc.
Work Experience
since 11/2021	Assistant professor
03/2020 - 10/2021	Research Associate (PostDoc)
12/2015 - 02/2020	Research Assistant (grad student)

Publications

Lifted Forward Planning in Relational Factored Markov Decision Processes with Concurrent Actions Marwitz, Florian; Braun, Tanya; Möller, Ralf; Gehrke, Marcel (2026) In: Amato, Chris; Dennis, Louise; Mascardi, Viviana; Thangarajah, John (eds.), AAMAS-26 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 1314-1322. Richland: / International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. doi:10.65109/GOIS4183 Research article in edited proceedings (conference) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Towards Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Clustering of Defects in Electrode Surface Inspection Pouls, Kevin; Hamid, Sagad; Sensmeier, Leonard; Eiling, Fabian; Menne, Jan; Oehme, Mathias; Pfeifer, Max; Ridder, Fabian; Tepe, Mika; Braun, Tanya (2026) In: (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering 202620th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering 2026, 8-10 July, 2026, Naples, Italy. PROCEDIA. Research article in digital collection (conference) \| Peer reviewed \| accepted / in press (not yet published)
Lifted Causal Inference Luttermann, Malte; Braun, Tanya; Möller, Ralf; Gehrke, Marcel (2026) In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, S806. doi:10.1007/s10472-026-10009-1 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Variable Elimination for Forgetting in Probabilistic Graphical Models - A Work in Progress Braun, Tanya; Gehrke, Marcel; Sauerwald, Kai; Speller, Jan (2026) In: Beierle, Christoph; Hahn, Alexander; Kern-Isberner, Gabriele; Kutz, Oliver; Saribatur, Zeynep G.; Sauerwald, Kai; Spiegel, Lars-Philllip (eds.), Joint proceedings of the Workshop on Theory and Methods for Abstraction (THEMA 2026) and the Workshop on Modularity and Splitting Techniques for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (MoST 2026) at the 9th Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2026). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Research article in digital collection (conference) \| Preprint \| Peer reviewed \| accepted / in press (not yet published)
Indistinguishable Agents in Decentralised POMDPs Karabulut, Nazlı Nur; Braun, Tanya (2026) In: (eds.), Informal proceedings of the LAMAS&SR-26 Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning 2026LAMAS&SR-26 Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning 2026 at the 9th Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2026), 19 July, 2026, Lisbon, Portugal. https://strategic-reasoning.github.io/lamassr26/. Research article in digital collection (conference) \| Preprint \| Peer reviewed \| accepted / in press (not yet 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 vs. Accuracy: Compact Models for Efficiency and Interpretation Luttermann, Malte; Speller, Jan; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (15/08/2026) Tutorial at the IJCAI-ECAI-26 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 29th European Conference…, Bremen Type of talk: scientific Talk
Inducing Comparability of Factorised Probability Distributions Speller, Jan; Luttermann, Malte; Gehrke, Marcel; Braun, Tanya (19/03/2026) 3rd Logic and AI Meet-up, Hagen Type of talk: scientific Talk
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
Variable Elimination as a Form of Forgetting in (Lifted) Probabilistic Graphical Models Braun, Tanya (19/03/2025) 2nd Logic and AI Meet-up, Hagen 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

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