Becker Lab

Join us! 👩‍🎓🧑‍🏫👩‍⚕️🙋‍♂️ We are looking for several PhD students or Postdocs and student assistants. You will work on projects encompassing for example extracting and integrating domain knowledge from and into machine learning methods in the context of high-impact applications like (bio-)medicine and environmental change.

The Becker Lab is a dynamic and quickly growing machine learning lab with a strong international network including for example Stanford University, UC San Diego, or UNC Chapel Hill. We aim to impact high-stake real-world problem settings at the intersection of medicine, environmental change, and human behavior through artificial intelligence and machine learning. For this, we develop novel approaches and methodology in close collaboration with practitioners and domain experts that enable unprecedented insights into complex systems. This allows us to directly impact real-world scenarios like local patient populations or ecosystems maximizing translational and synergetic effects of our work. In this context, the main focus of our group is threefold:

• understanding complex systems by extracting novel insights into their underlying processes,
• modeling complex systems by integrating existing domain knowledge into machine learning methods,
• and developing methods for knowledge management, representation, and interaction.

Our approaches range from multi-modal learning, network analysis, and exceptional model mining to Bayesian modeling, deep learning, representation learning, explainable AI, and human computer interaction.