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Andreas Dengel (* 1961) is a german Computer Scientist and university lecturer as well as Managing Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, which was founded in 1988.

Life
Andreas Dengel studied computer science with a minor in economics at the University of Kaiserslautern until 1986. He then received his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in computer science from the University of Stuttgart in 1989. After working for IBM, Siemens and a research stay at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, he took over as Scientific Director of a research department at DFKI in 1993, which today is known as "Smart Data and Knowledge Services". At the same time, Andreas Dengel received a call for a C3 professorship in combination with the Chair of Knowledge-Based Systems at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, which was upgraded to a C4 position in 1997 and to a W3 position in 2013 after rejection of external offers. Since 2009, he has also held a teaching and examination position at Osaka Prefecture University and a professorship (kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems.

Andreas Dengel has chaired numerous international conferences and is on the editorial board of international journals and book series. He has written or published 14 books and is the author of more than 500 scientific publications, many of which have received Best Paper Awards. He has supervised more than 450 doctoral, masters and bachelors theses.

Furthermore, he is founder, initiator and mentor of numerous successful start-up companies, three of which were awarded the "Pioneer Spirit Award", first prize in the "1,2,3 GO" founding competition and the "Cebit Innovation Award". In 2015, he was honored for his contributions with the "Founding Promoter of the Year" award.

Andreas Dengel is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Chairman of the Flexible Factory Partner Alliance (FFPA) and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He advises academic institutions, research programs, and ministries within Germany and abroad.

Awards and Honors
For his scientific achievements, he received, among others, the Alcatel/SEL Award on Technical Communication, and in March 2018, he was appointed "Distinguished Honorary Professor" (tokubetu eiyo kyoju) at Osaka Prefecture University, a distinction received by only five researchers within 135 years. His research focuses on machine learning, pattern recognition, quantified learning, data mining, semantic technologies, and document analysis.

For his research in the field of document analysis, Andreas Dengel was elected in 2019 by a jury commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as one of the most influential scientists in 50 years of AI history in Germany. That same year, he also received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Int'l Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) in Sydney, Australia.

In 2021, Dengel was awarded one of Japan's high-ranking Orders of the Rising Sun, the "The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" in the name of His Majesty Emperor Naruhito. With Japan's oldest award, the country recognizes Dengel's outstanding contributions to academic exchange between Japan and Germany in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as his contribution to promoting understanding between the two countries.

Weblinks

 * Personal Online Presence
 * Website of the department "Smarte Daten & Wissensdienste"