Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Felix Lindner✝



After a long and serious illness, our valued colleague Jun. Prof. Felix Lindner passed away on April 23, 2023. Our thoughts are with him and all who were close to him. We will miss him very much at the institute.

  • since 10/2019: Juniorprofessor for explainable artificial intelligence, Ulm University
  • 10/2015 – 09/2019: Lecturer, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
  • 10/2009 – 09/2015: Research Associate, Knowledge and Language Processing, University of Hamburg

Research Interests

  • Explainability of AI Systems
    • Conceptualizations of Explanation, Reason, and Causality for making sure artificial agents (esp. robots) are making the right decisions for the right reasons
    • Explanations as input and output, using explanations for interactive learning and transparent AI
  • Machine Ethics
  • Human-Robot Interaction
    • Social Robot Navigation
    • Explainability in Human-Robot Interaction
    • Ethical discussions with the robotic head Immanuel

Publikationen

2022

16.
Karalus, Jakob; Lindner, Felix
Accelerating the Learning of TAMER with Counterfactual Explanations
The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022)
2022
15.
Lindner, Felix
Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing
Chapter Defining Artificial Intelligence, Page 451-454
2022
451-454
14.
Halilovic, Amar; Lindner, Felix
Explaining Local Path Plans Using LIME
31st International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD),
2022
13.
Lindner, Felix; Olz, Conny
Step-by-Step Task Plan Explanations Beyond Causal Links
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Page 45--51
Publisher: IEEE
2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900590
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2022/Lindner22PlanExplanationBeyondCL.pdf
12.
Hannibal, Glenda; Lindner, Felix
Towards A Questions-Driven Approach to Explainable Human-Robot Interaction
Robophilosophy 2022
2022
11.
Krarup, Benjamin; Lindner, Felix; Krivic, Senka; Long, Derek
Understanding a Robot’s Guiding Ethical Principles via Automatically Generated Explanations
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
2022

2021

10.
Karalus, Jakob; Lindner, Felix
Accelerating the Convergence of Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning with Counterfactual Explanations
ICML Workshop on Human in the Loop Learning (HILL),
2021
9.
Karalus, Jakob; Halilovic, Amar; Lindner, Felix
Explanations in, Explanations out: Human-in-the-Loop Social Navigation Learning
ICDL Workshop on Human aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots,
2021
8.
Lindner, Felix
Soziale Robotik und KI
Publisher: Springer
2021
7.
Olz, Conny; Wierzba, Eva; Bercher, Pascal; Lindner, Felix
Towards Improving the Comprehension of HTN Planning Domains by Means of Preconditions and Effects of Compound Tasks
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS 2021)
2021
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2021/Olz2021ComprehendHTNModels.pdf
6.
Louise, Dennis; Bentzen, Martin Mose; Lindner, Felix; Fisher, Michael
Verifiable Machine Ethics in Changing Contexts
AAAI 2021,
2021

2020

5.
Lindner, Felix; Mattmüller, Robert; Nebel, Bernhard
Evaluation of the Moral Permissibility of Action Plans
Artificial Intelligence, 287
2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2020.103350
4.
Lindner, Felix
Permissibility-under-a-description reasoning for deontological robots
RoboPhilosophy 2020,
2020
3.
Tolmeijer, Suzanne; Weiss, Astrid; Hanheide, Marc; Lindner, Felix; Powers, Thomas M.; Dixon, Clare; Tielman, Myrthe L.
Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies
HRI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction,
2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374793
2.
Lindner, Felix
Towards a Formalization of Explanations for Robots’ Actions and Beliefs
JOWO 2020 Proceedings of the FOIS Workshop Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics (ROBONTICS 2020),
2020
1.
Krarup, Benjamin; Krivic, Senka; Lindner, Felix; Long, Derek
Towards Contrastive Explanations for Comparing the Ethics of Plans
Against Robot Dystopias: Thinking through the ethical, legal and societal issues of robotics and automation (AGAINST-20), Workshop at ICRA 2020,
2020