Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz is a Full Professor of AI at the RPTU in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and at the same time Scientific Director at DFKI Kaiserslautern, where he heads the Embedded Intelligence group. Previous positions include Full Professor of Embedded Systems at the University of Passau, Germany, and Full Professor in the Computer Engineering Dept. at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Innsbruck, Austria.

His research focuses on context-aware ubiquitous and wearable systems, including sensing, pattern recognition, system architectures, models of large-scale self-organized systems, and applications.

Currently, Paul Lukowicz is running a wide range of German national and EU projects. He is the Coordinator of the HumanE AI-Net, a large networking project with more than 50 European partners and acts as Editor for various scientific publications. He has served on more than 50 program committees (including TPC Chair) at high-quality international conferences of all the main conferences within his research area.