Professor
University of Innsbruck
Justus Piater is a professor of computer science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria where he leads the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics and for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. His research interests focus on learning and inference in sensorimotor systems, published in more than 200 papers several of which have received best-paper awards. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics and acts as the founding director of the Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck, and is a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).