Title: Explaining Decisions with Minimal Supervision and My Journey to Professorship in Germany

Abstract: In this talk I would like to start by briefly introducing my research interests and experience. Following that, I will talk about my professional journey from Edirne to Tübingen focusing mainly on how I tried to recover from my failures. I will end my talk with a summary and a brief set of suggestions which I believe have helped me on this journey.

Bio: Zeynep Akata is a professor of Computer Science within the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen. She received a Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science from Max Planck Society in 2014, a young scientist honour from the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation in 2019 and an ERC-2019 Starting Grant from the European Commission. Her research interests include multimodal learning and explainable AI.