Zeynep Akata

Panel Member

Dr. Zeynep Akata is an Assistant Professor with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Scientific Manager of the Delta Lab and a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. She holds a BSc degree from Trakya University (2008), MSc degree from RWTH Aachen (2010) and a PhD degree from University of Grenoble (2014). After completing her PhD at the INRIA Rhone Alpes with Prof. Dr. Cordelia Schmid, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele and a visiting researcher with Prof. Dr. Trevor Darrell at UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of Lise Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science in 2014. Her research interests include machine learning combined with vision and language for the task of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).