Andreas Holzinger

Andreas Holzinger (* 18. April 1963 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian Computer Scientist.

Academic biography

Andreas Holzinger’s career began with an apprenticeship in Information Technology in 1978. After passing a journeyman certification exam in 1981, he became a field work communication technician at BOSCH. In 1983, he passed the exam to become a Foreman and Instructor in Industrial Electronics. While working as an industrial engineer, he enrolled in evening classes at the Federal Secondary College of Engineering (BULME) and became a student at the College of Further Education in Bournemouth (UK), and graduated with honors in Computer Science. Andreas Holzinger was awarded Chartered Engineer (CEng) for IT in 1990 and received a Diploma as Lecturer for Adult Education in 1991 (DipEd). He studied communication and information engineering (BEng, 1993); Physics and Psychology (MSc, 1995); and Media Education and Sociology (MPh, 1996) at Graz University of Technology and the Karl-Franzens University Graz. Andreas Holzinger received his PhD (Dr.phil.) with a topic in Cognitive Science in 1997. From 2002 to 2003 he was lecturer at the Fresenius Nations Health Career School of Management (NHCS) in Berlin. In 2003 he received a second doctorate (Habilitation, venia docendi) at Graz University of Technology in Applied Computer Science.

Andreas Holzinger has held visiting professorships at: Institute for Organization and Learning at Innsbruck University (2004/05), Institute for Software Technology and interactive Systems at Vienna University of Technology (2005/06), School of Computing at Middlesex University in London (UK) (summer 2007), RWTH Aachen University (2011/12), and University College London (summer 2012). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on a regular basis. Since 2016 Andreas is Visiting Professor for Machine Learning in Health Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics at Vienna University of Technology.

Andreas Holzinger is the founding leader of the international expert network HCI-KDD . He serves as scientific consultant for the Canadian, US, UK; Swiss, French, Italian and Dutch governments and as expert for the German Excellence Initiative.

Current Research Areas

Andreas Holzinger is known for his work on interactive knowledge discovery of high-dimensional, complex and weakly-structured data and unstructured information. The recent focus of his research with his team (hci-kdd.org) is to bring Human–computer interaction (HCI) and Knowledge extraction (KDD) closer together for supporting human intelligence with artificial intelligence. He has developed and evaluated a special approach: interactive machine learning (iML) with a human-in-the-loop. It can often be beneficial not to ignore human domain knowledge, but rather to combine human intelligence with artificial intelligence. A huge motivation for the iML approach is, that fully automated “black-box” approaches are lacking transparency; but future legal and data protection aspects make it increasingly necessary to explain why a decision was made by means of a “glass-box” approach. Andreas’ approach towards explainable-AI can also promote acceptance and trust of artificial intelligence in general, and of machine learning for health informatics specifically.

Publications

Holzinger has over 290 peer-reviewed research publications which were cited over 8000 times which brought him an h-index of 42.

Weblinks

• Literature by and about Andreas Holzinger in the German National Library catalogue
• Personal Page
• Andreas Holzinger profile at the Midical University of Graz

References

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