Kristian Kersting
Kristian Kersting studies learning and reasoning with uncertain, structured data and combinations of neural and symbolic methods. Kersting received his doctorate from Freiburg in 2006, working with Luc De Raedt and Wolfram Burgard. His thesis received the EurAI dissertation award for that year. Kersting led a research group at Fraunhofer IAIS from 2008 to 2012. His interests include statistical relational AI and probabilistic programming and learning.
- Now at
- TU Darmstadt
- Works
- 639
- Citations
- 11,956
- h-index
- 56
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2006
Doctoral research
Kersting received his doctorate from Freiburg in 2006, working with Luc De Raedt and Wolfram Burgard. His thesis received the EurAI dissertation award for that year.
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2008–2012
Fraunhofer research group
Kersting led a research group at Fraunhofer IAIS from 2008 to 2012. His interests include statistical relational AI and probabilistic programming and learning.
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2017–2019
Machine learning at Darmstadt
Kersting was a machine learning professor at TU Darmstadt from 2017 to 2019. He became a full professor in AI and machine learning in 2019.
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2020
Shared AI research institutions
Kersting co-founded and co-directed the Hessian Center for AI in 2020 and co-directed an ELLIS program on semantic, symbolic, and interpretable learning from that year.
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2024
Research recognition
AAAI elected Kristian Kersting as a Fellow in 2024.
Sources and credits
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