For his research work in the field of computer science, Junior Professor Dr Sebastian Peitz from Paderborn University has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC). The grants are among the most important awards in European research funding and are awarded to top researchers with outstanding scientific achievements. Starting Grants are intended to help researchers at the beginning of their academic careers to realise their own projects, form teams and pursue their most promising ideas.
Peitz heads the ‘Data Science for Engineering’ specialist group at Paderborn University's institute of computer science. He was previously Managing Director at the Institute of Industrial Mathematics there and a junior research group leader, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Peitz's research interests include machine learning - particularly in the context of complex technical systems - and intelligent socio-technical systems.
He received the ERC grant for his project proposal ‘KoOpeRaDE’. The project is about monitoring and controlling complex technical systems with the help of artificial intelligence - known as reinforcement learning. The aim is to significantly improve data efficiency and, above all, reliability, which is of key importance for safety-critical systems such as aeroplanes or power plants. ‘The project combines research content from computer science, mathematics and engineering. With the increasing complexity of modern systems, such interdisciplinarity is playing an ever more important role,’ says Peitz.
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