Frank Kirchner (computer scientist)

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Frank Kirchner (born August 4, 1963 ) is a German computer scientist and university professor.

Life

Kirchner studied from 1985 to 1988 economics at the University of Cologne and 1989-1994 computer science and neurobiology at the University of Bonn , where he and his 1999 dissertation Hierarchical Q-Learning in Complex RobotControl problem doctorate . From 1994 to 1998 he worked at the GMD Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin. In 1999 Kirchner was appointed Assistant Professor of Robotics at Northeastern University in Boston. In 2002 he accepted an appointment as professor at a robotics - Chair of the University of Bremen .

Kirchner has headed the Robotics research group since 2005 and has been the location spokesman for the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen since 2008 and head of the Robotics Innovation Center at the DFKI. Since 2013 Kirchner has also been Scientific Director of the Brazilian Institute of Robotics (BIR) in Salvador, Bahia. In 2015 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Centro Universitário SENAI CIMATEC in Salvador da Bahia .

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Swantje Schmidt: Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner receives an honorary doctorate from the Centro Universitário SENAI CIMATEC Brazil. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, DFKI, press release from August 10, 2017 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on August 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1963