Ulli Waltinger is the Head of the Research Group Machine Intelligence and Technology Head of the Siemens Artificial Intelligence Lab at Siemens Corporate Technology (Siemens AI Lab), Siemens’ global research organization. Prior he worked at the Artificial Intelligence Group and the Center of Excellence of Cognitive Interaction Technology at the University of Bielefeld. His primary interests are combining data-driven and semantic technology-driven machine learning algorithms for AI, information retrieval and NLP challenges. Ulli Waltinger has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and cognitive science.