Katharina Zweig

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Katharina Anna Zweig (2016)

Katharina Anna Zweig , b. Lehmann (born May 22, 1976 in Hamburg ) is a German researcher. As a university professor at the Department of Computer Science at the TU Kaiserslautern, she heads the Algorithm Accountability Lab.

Career

At the University of Tübingen she first studied biochemistry with the minor subjects physical chemistry and physiology and graduated in 2001 with a diploma. Five years later, she also completed her bioinformatics studies at the University of Tübingen. In 2007 Katharina Zweig did her doctorate with the topic "Local Behavior and Global Structures in the Evolution of Complex Networks".

Supported by a grant from the Leopoldina , she spent a year and a half as a postdoc in Tamás Vicsek's group (Statistical Biophysics, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest). She then headed a junior research group on the subject of “Graph Theory and Analysis of Complex Networks” at the University of Heidelberg at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR).

Since 2012 she has been a professor in a working group with the same title at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. There she was in charge of the socio-informatics course , which was unique in Germany at the time and which examines the effects of digitization on the individual, organization and society. She has been a Junior Fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik since 2013 and was honored as one of 39 digital minds by Federal Minister Johanna Wanka in 2014. Her main research area is "Network Analysis Literacy", socially she advocates a broad discussion about the power and possible effects of algorithms.

In 2016 she founded the platform AlgorithmWatch together with Lorena Jaume-Palasí , Lorenz Matzat and Matthias Spielkamp (project manager of iRights.info and board member of Reporters Without Borders ) . For this she was awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal in 2018 with the other founders . It is no longer active there.

In 2018 she was appointed as an expert in the newly constituted Enquete Commission Artificial Intelligence - Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential of the German Bundestag.

Katharina Zweig describes the results of algorithms that classify people as "de-soulled decisions" if the algorithms are not subjected to rigorous quality control from the start. It calls for ethics for algorithms and extended data protection for relational information and at the same time expresses itself critical of the implementation of the right to be forgotten .

As a science communicator, she succeeds in describing and explaining complex relationships and effects of AI on society for an interested, but non-specialist general public.

Research priorities

In her research, Zweig mainly deals with method development and method analysis in the field of complex network analysis. Since 2016 she has expanded this research to the more general area of ​​“Algorithm Accountability” and renamed her research group to the “Algorithm Accountability Lab”.

Awards

Fonts

  • Jürgen Lerner, Dorothea Wagner, Katharina Zweig: Algorithmics of Large and Complex Networks. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-02093-3 .
  • Katharina A. Zweig, Wolfgang Neuser, Volkmar Pipek, Markus Rohde, Ingo Scholtes: Proceedings of the first workshop on Socioinformatics . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-09377-2 .
  • Katharina Anna Zweig: Network Analysis Literacy . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7091-0740-9 .
  • Katharina Zweig: An algorithm has no tact. Where artificial intelligence is wrong, why it affects us and what we can do about it . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-453-20730-1 .

Individual contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Algorithm Accountability Lab. TU Kaiserslautern, accessed on April 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Communication from the Gesellschaft für Informatik ( memento from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from September 2013
  3. ↑ Stefan Schmitt: Algorithms: What can computers decide, Ms. Zweig? In: The time . No. 42 , October 10, 2019 ( online for subscribers [accessed October 16, 2019]).
  4. ^ AlgorithmWatch. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Theodor Heuss Foundation: 53rd Theodor Heuss Prize. 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI): Hannah Bast, Antonio Krüger and Katharina Zweig appointed to the “Artificial Intelligence” study commission. October 5, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Katharina Zweig: Deconsolated decisions. In: The Standard. May 6, 2016, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Katharina Zweig, Socioinformatics Professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern ( Memento from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Katharina Zweig: A human memory for the Internet. In: The Science Year. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zweig, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zweig, Katharina Anna; Lehmann, Katharina Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg