Dr. Stefan Kolek successfully defended his PhD thesis

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Last week, a PhD student from our Chair, Stefan Kolek, successfully defended his doctoral thesis at LMU on “Sparse Representation Methods for Explainable Image Classification”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok.

Among the questions Stefan addressed in his research, are "How can we understand why an AI system makes a particular decision?" and "Can we trust the explanations it provides?". In hiw work, he developed new approaches to understand neural networks decisions, including CartoonX and ShearletX. He also addressed the question of preventing explanations themselves from being misleading.

Recently, Stefan has started a PostDoc position in the group of Prof. Daniel Rückert at TUM Klinikum Rechts der Isar. We are very happy that his research will continue, especially here in Munich.

It's been an utmost pleasure having Stefan at our Chair and we wish him all the best in his next chapter!