Dr. Thorsten Bohnenberger

• Strategic Marketing with focus on Faurecia’s interior business with all German car manufacturers • Developing & deploying the Strategic Product Plan • Steering innovation activities in line with the German customers’ needs • Managing customer events (e.g., trade fairs and TechDays) • Commodity and innovation pricing; business model innovation • Acting as acquisition manager for an innovative air vent product • Market research coordination & public funding • Supporting M&A activities

• Leading a large cross-functional team to an on-time SOP of VW’s technical flagship at the time • In charge of a balanced project management triangle (time, cost, quality) • Coordination of complex driver assistance systems rollout • Organization of C-level committee debriefings • Representing VW’s Engineering department in the Bratislava plant, SK, during ramp-up

• Transfer of cutting-edge AI technology into industrial HMI research • Development of speech dialog systems and multimodal user interfaces for infotainment systems • Development of context-based assistance systems • Coordination of various international cooperation partners • C-level presentations of research results

• Research in the field of Intelligent User Interfaces and Human-Machine Interaction • Key contributor to the success of the DFG Special Research Field 378 on Resource-adaptive cognitive processes • Lecturing knowledge representation and automated reasoning

• Development of a multiagent system for public transportation scheduling • Presentation of the prototype to the Minister for Economic Affairs during DFKI’s 10th anniversary celebration • Administration of the European Network of Excellence for Computational Logics (CompuLog Net)

• Research field: Intelligent User Interfaces / Human-Machine Interaction • PhD Thesis: Decision-Theoretic Planning for User-Adaptive Systems: Dealing with Multiple Goals and Resource Limitations • Presentation of peer-reviewed research results in top-tier international conferences, including the Intelligent User Interface Conferences in Santa Fe, 2001, and San Francisco, 2002, the HMI for Mobile Devices Conference in Pisa, 2002, & the Pervasive Computing Conference in Berlin, 2005.

• Diploma thesis at the Multiagent Systems Lab, Prof. Jörg Siekmann • Thesis: Development of a deductive knowledge base for the agent architecture "InteRRaP" • Focus on formal logics, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning • Business informatics, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer • Business administration and Macro-Economics

• Agents, knowledge & data • Machine learning & pattern recognition • Natural language processing • Computer vision

• Analysis & algebra • Foundations of Computer Science • Business administration • Economics • Statistics