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Pioneering document: Prof. Dr.
Florian Haselbeck (l.) receives from HSWT President Dr.
Eric Veulliet presented the certificate of appointment.
© Josef Gankofer/HSWT
It is a novelty for the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences: it is getting its first professorship for artificial intelligence.
Freising
– Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University (HSWT) receives its first AI professorship: Florian Haselbeck has been HTA professor for “Smart Farming – Artificial Intelligence in Plant Production” since March 1st.
The university reports: “The new professorship will specifically promote methodological research in various areas of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the application areas of sustainability and agriculture.”
The professorship should participate in interdisciplinary projects in research and teaching.
For Florian Haselbeck this means: He will teach at both the Faculty of Sustainable Agricultural and Energy Systems and the Faculty of Bioengineering on the Weihenstephan campus.
Similar to agriculture, society faces major challenges, particularly due to climate change, says Haselbeck.
“Artificial intelligence is a key technology that can help us with this.
Together with my colleagues, I would like to advance AI research, especially in these application areas.”
AI knowledge from research and business
Before his appointment, Haselbeck was a research assistant at HSWT under Prof. Dr.
Dominik Grimm at the Straubing location, where he completed his doctorate with a focus on AI-based methods for time series forecasting in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich.
Time series data are data sets in which the temporal sequence of measurements or observations plays an important role - a characteristic that many agricultural data have.
During his work as a research assistant, Haselbeck's research area expanded to include bioinformatics and plants.
Among other things, he worked on predicting the properties of plants in order to optimize the breeding of new varieties - supported by artificial intelligence.
Previously, he worked at Audi AG in Ingolstadt as a data scientist on the development and prototyping of machine learning-based functions as well as model-based software development for driving state estimation.
“I am very pleased that Florian Haselbeck comes from our own ranks and will now further develop research and teaching in the field of artificial intelligence at the HSWT as a high-tech agenda professor,” says HSWT President Dr.
Eric Veulliet.
He emphasizes: “AI is a key to the central challenges in land use by contributing to sustainable practice and climate protection.” Both are “outstanding core competencies of our green university.”
18 new professorships in Weihenstephan
The professorship was awarded as part of the so-called “Hightech Agenda Bavaria” (HTA), meaning Florian Haselbeck is also an HTA professor.
The Bavarian High-Tech Agenda is an initiative of the Bavarian State Government to strengthen research and innovation and promote technology transfer in the economy and society.
Through this, the university with locations in Weihenstephan and Triesdorf received funding totaling eight million euros and was able to create 28 new professorships, 18 of which are on the Weihenstephan campus and ten in Triesdorf, the university reports.
In addition, two HTA modular buildings will be built on the two campuses.
The modular construction in Freising is expected to be completed in July 2024.
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