Prof. Dr Teena C. Hassan takes over as director of the A2S Institute

The A2S Institute bundles research, transfer and teaching at the H-BRS on the topics of AI and autonomous systems. 

Hassan follows in the footsteps of the outgoing chairman Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender and will advance the areas of human-robot interaction, hospital logistics, AI for healthcare and environment perception through machine learning.

She has the best prerequisites for this. She completed her Master's degree in Autonomous Systems in 2014 with an excellent Master's thesis on "Dynamic facial expression estimation by means of model fitting" in the Department of Computer Science at the H-BRS and then began her professional career. She made stops at the Fraunhofer Institute, at the University of Bielefeld and then at the University of Bamberg for her doctorate. From there, she went on to University of Bremen and then returned to the H-BRS as a professor for "Mathematical Foundations of Autonomous Systems".

The goal is to strengthen and accelerate AI and robotics in research and transfer at the institute. To achieve this, Hassan and her team rely on the internal network of the university involving various stakeholders and interested parties as well as the involvement of external experts from industry and academia. As one of the Institute's core values, Hassan wants to promote not only the scientific-technical but also the human-related aspects in AI and robotics.