© Tiss: Thomas Lukasiewicz

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Inf. Dr.rer.nat. Thomas Lukasiewicz was appointed as University Professor for Artificial Intelligence Techniques at TU Wien with effect from April 1 2022. He is assigned to the Institute for Logic and Computation, opens an external URL in a new window, opens an external URL in a new window (E192) at the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window.

Thomas Lukasiewicz studied computer science at the TU Clausthal and then did his doctorate in 1996 at the TU Augsburg with a dissertation on "Precision of probabilistic deduction under taxonomic knowledge. After working as an assistant at the University of Gießen, he came to the TU Wien as part of a DFG habilitation grant from 1999 - 2001, where he specialized in "Practical and Theoretical Computer Science, opens an external URL in a new window" in 2001 with a habilitation thesis on "Databases and logic programming under probabilistic uncertainty, opens an external URL in a new window” habilitated. Further scholarships followed (Marie-Curie, Heisenberg, Yahoo!), which brought him to the Sapienza University in Rome and later to the University of Oxford. In 2010 he received a professorship at the University of Oxford. From 2016-20 he was a Turing Fellow at the Allan Turing Institute in London.

The scientific home of Thomas Lukasiewicz is now the Research Unit of Artificial Intelligence Techniques at the aforementioned institute, which he also heads. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

Publications by Thomas Lukasiewicz in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.