Stefan Wrobel is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS. He studied computer science and artificial intelligence in Bonn and Atlanta, Georgia/USA (M.S.,Georgia Institute of Technology) and obtained his doctorate at the University of Dortmund. After several years of study at the University of Dortmund, he obtained his Ph. After several years of research and as co-founder of a start-up, he was appointed Professor at the University of Magdeburg, before taking up his current position. He is also one of the directors of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it). Professor Wrobel's work focuses on intelligent systems and their productive use in enterprise applications, with particular emphasis on innovations in statistical learning, artificial intelligence and the foundations of big data, data ecosystems and enterprise structures. He is the author of a large number of publications on data mining and statistical learning, and is on the editorial board of several academic journals in his field. He is co-chairman of ML2R, one of Germany's journals of excellence in statistical learning, and a Fraunhofer Alliance lecturer on statistical learning and AI.