Dr. Timo Freiesleben

About

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Hi, welcome to my personal website. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich). My work focuses on:

  • Epistemology of machine learning
    (e.g. explainable artificial intelligence, statistical learning theory, causality)
  • Philosophy of science
    (e.g. robustness, scientific representation, predictive modelling)
  • Ethics of AI
    (e.g. algorithmic recourse, performativity, contestability)

I am part of a wonderful research group working on the Philosophy of Machine Learning, where I am supervised by Dr. Tom Sterkenburg, and a member of the Munich Center for Machine Learning. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy and ethics group at the Machine Learning in Science Cluster at the University of Tübingen, working with Dr. Thomas Grote.

I completed my PhD at LMU Munich under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hartmann, on the question of what explainable AI explains. Before my PhD, I studied mathematics, philosophy of science, computer science, and neuroscience in Tübingen, Oslo, and Munich.