Deputy Director at Fraunhofer IKS
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»To me, safe intelligence means building trustworthy and reliable systems that act verifiably safely in safety-relevant environments. By understanding the properties of AI technologies theoretically and experimentally, we enable impressive safety-relevant applications from autonomous mobility to smart factories and personal assistants.«
Dr. Reinhard Stolle has been Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS since June 2024. He joined the Institute in December 2023 as head of the Mobility business unit.
Reinhard Stolle began his studies in computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) in Erlangen, Germany, before receiving a Fulbright scholarship and studying the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA). After receiving his master's degree, he went on to complete his Ph.D. in computer science at the same university, specializing in artificial intelligence (AI). He continued to work on AI and model-based planning as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
He stayed in California for the next few years, working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on natural language understanding and text-based information processing using artificial intelligence. In 2004, he returned to Germany, where he worked for 14 years at BMW in Munich as a development engineer and in various management positions. He worked on software strategy, driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and AI. In his next positions as Head of Engineering at AID, a company within the VW Group, and as Vice President at Argo AI, he was responsible for the progress of Level 4 autonomous driving, i.e. fully automated vehicles that operate completely autonomously under certain conditions.
Since December 2023, Reinhard Stolle has been head of the Mobility Business Unit at Fraunhofer IKS, which develops innovations in the field of mobility through artificial intelligence. Since June 2024, he has now contributed his management experience as deputy director of the institute.
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