D-INFK alumnus Severin Hacker co-founded the language-learning company Duolingo in 2011 and has served as CTO since its inception. He announced on LinkedIn that he has been "shifting into a more hands on role" at the company and his investor relations page indicates that he is no longer CTO.
Professor Martin Vechev, head of the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab (SRI Lab), and his team investigated the impact of LLM watermarks on medical AI systems. Their study shows that watermarking techniques, while enabling traceability of AI-generated content, can negatively affect clinical reasoning quality and introduce new failure modes.
Professor Menna El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation (IVIA) Lab, discusses how explainable AI can make complex AI systems more transparent and support effective human–AI collaboration. Her research focuses on developing interactive approaches that help people understand, evaluate, and work with AI systems.