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post-docs and visiting scholar research missions: University of Michigan (UMich), USA (Summer 2018), University of Sao Paulo (USP- ICMC), Brazil (2010-2011), University of Shizuoka, Japan (Spring 2010), and University of Milan, Italy (Fall 2009). He was awarded various prestigious fellowships: Fulbright (USA), FAPESP (Brazil), JSPS (Japan), Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), French Ministry of Education (France), and Association of Francophone Universities (AUF, Canada). His research covers semi-structured, semantic, and multimedia data processing, data-mining, and information retrieval. He has coordinated various international research projects and has more than 65 publications in prestigious journals and conferences. J. Tekli has initiated a collaboration between LAU and BMW Group (since 2018), offering engineering students internships at the company's seat in Munich, and promoting collaborative projects between both institutions. He co-founded and is currently serving as Director of the InMind Academy (since 2022), a professional training program in collaboration with BMW Group, Idealworks, and InMind .ai. J. Tekli is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and is currently serving as the vice-chair of ACM SIGAPP French



chapter (since 2018), Associate Editor of Springer KAIS journal, and member of the US-Atlantic Council AI Connect initiative (since 2022).

Marc Kamradt is currently serving as Head of BMW Group TechOffice, Munich (since 2021). The work of the TechOffice mainly revolves around the development and integration of digitalization technologies to help build next generation smart factories, including Ominverse Artificial Intelligence (AI) pipeline, synthetic data generation, and BMW Green physics AI. M. Kamradt was previously appointed to different leadership positions within BMW Group. He served as Senior Expert Innovation, Lead BMW Innovation Lab (2016-2020), leading projects around visual object recognition, knowledge graph enabled manufacturing assistance, and chat bot production at BMW Group. He also served as Innovations Manager (2013-2016), leading projects around cognitive production control and error analysis, and knowledge graph enabled manufacturing assistance. Prior to his leadership roles, he had an extensive technical experience as Enterprise Information Technology (IT) Architect at BMW Group (2011-2012), Product and Process Planning Electonics at BMW Group (2007-2010), IT Specialist at BMW Group (2002-2007), and IT Specialist at T-Systems International GmbH (2000-2002). M. Kamradt obtained his Computer Science diploma from Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany (1999).