Executive Board
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Socher – Vice-President
| Curriculum Vitae | |
|---|---|
Roles at the HM | |
| Since 1 November 2026 | Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Teaching |
| Since 2024 | Member of the Doctoral Research Center for Applied Computer Science (PZAI) |
| 2020–2026 | Dean of Studies at the Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI (MUC.DAI) |
Professorships | |
| Since 2006 | Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Hochschule München |
| 2016–2017 | Visiting professor at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA, USA |
Practice and Transfers | |
| 1998–2006 | Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Lead at, amongst others, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, and Munich |
| 1997 | Postdoctoral researcher, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, USA |
| 1994–1996 | Research Fellow at Bielefeld University |
Academic education | |
| 1997 | Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) at the Department of Engineering, Bielefeld University |
| 1996–1997 | Doctoral candidate at the Computer Vision Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA |
| 1991–1992 | A year abroad at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France |
| 1988–1993 | Studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
Prices
- ECIE Teaching Excellence Award 2021
- 1997 Best dissertation from the Department of Engineering at Bielefeld University