AI Lab

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The AI Lab belongs to the AI Initiative at Frankfurt School and shows the university's commitment to this topic. It is the home for artificial intelligence and digital transformation at FS. Here, innovation-oriented and collaborative students, employees, faculty members and partners come together. The AI Lab is a hub for projects and topics within AI, ranging from Machine Learning and Deep Learning to image recognition and natural language processing. From internal digitalisation projects to external tech events, the AI Lab offers a designated space for open and collaborative learning and working, both on a department level and institution wide.

Aims

The overall aims of the AI Lab are

to sustainably advance Frankfurt School’s digital transformation
to position FS as a centre for AI and Data Science through partnerships within the business sector and the community
to connect with and have an impact on the local community with regard to AI related topics

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The AI Lab provides a space where new learning concepts can be developed, tested, and immediately implemented into the teaching programme. There is room for creativity and experimentation with new formats and methods of working. Digitalisation options and business ideas can be promoted and developed. Through cooperation with partners from the regional Tech Community as well as from the business sector, the AI Lab offers a wide range of opportunities for teaching, research and intensive knowledge transfer.

Events

Events at the AI Lab are an excellent opportunity for businesses to meet FS students, and professors and exchange ideas about artificial intelligence. Simultaneously, it is a great way for students to get to know businesses, the local AI community and to gain hands-on experience. For FS employees, events at the AI Lab are an excellent way to gain knowledge and skills to foster the digital transformation of the organisation.

Upcoming Events

EXPLAINABLE AI HACKATHON

We are excited to announce the first Accenture Hackathon on explainable AI to be hosted at the AI Lab on Friday, April 26^th.

The Hackathon will focus on problem solving skills. It is an opportunity to learn, experience and apply new XAI technologies and to hack problems in the Finance & Risk space. FS students will work collaboratively with Accenture Data Scientists and AI experts from DFKI (German Institute for Artificial Intelligence).

Multidisciplinary teams will combine aspects of machine learning, XAI, visualization, user interaction, some business understanding and of course serious Data Science efforts. We look forward to welcome you in the event.

“…if you are wondering what a Hackathon is, just remember that it is something you wouldn’t like to miss if you want to practice your knowledge, meet interesting people, do coding, learn about current challenges, see real business issues, and network with a potential future employer.”

Zakariya Abu-Grin, Master in Applied Data Science Class of 2020

Event Examples

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Sponsoring Opportunities

All events and activities at the AI Lab are open for sponsorship.

Recruitment

Workshops – guest lectures with FS students
Data sets and permission to use locally
Hackathons

Employee development

Join workshops held in 2019

Exposure and client acquisition

Data sets for research and publication.
Sponsor GPU units featured in the AI Lab

Vahe Andonians
Senior Lecturer, AI Lab Knowledge Lead

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

"The basic idea of any laboratory is to question the status quo and push knowledge forward, for which a high degree of flexibility is necessary. With the FS AI Lab, we have pushed barriers and created an incredibly versatile canvas to accommodate any kind of research around AI."

Vahe Andonians, Senior Lecturer, AI Lab Knowledge Lead

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Ananya Neogi
Master in Applied Data Science Class of 2020

"AI Lab - A space where innovation meets creativity to attain optimum productivity. A supportive environment to stimulate our brain and be inspired at the same time. Here is we try to take a step closer in visualising the future."

Ananya Neogi, Master in Applied Data Science Class of 2020

Company partnerships

Real business world connections are invaluable for our students and professors. There are a wide variety of ways for companies to get involved with the AI Lab.

Students

Classroom
Research
Collaboration
Career opportunities
Real business use cases
Networking

Partners

Attracting and recruiting young talents
Research partnerships with professors
Promoting and testing technology
Innovation and business use cases
Sponsoring opportunities
Increasing brand awareness

Faculty

Research
Teaching
Research set-ups
Mentoring
Meeting cooperation partners
Community building

Staff

Development
Digital transformation projects
Developing new business ideas
Workshops
Creative collaboration
Networking

At the AI Lab innovation-oriented and collaborative students, employees, faculty members and partners come together. The AI Lab is a hub for projects and topics within AI. The flexible furniture, big touchscreens and whiteboards provide the ideal environment for the students in order to study and work collaboratively on projects.

Hardware got marginalized in the last ten years. Artificial Intelligence use cases with low latency requirements or data security considerations are bringing hardware back. Here at the AI Lab, we have also state-of-the-art computers for learning and inference. The open-hardware design is further underlining the strategy of flexibility.

The Venue

The AI Lab is a 260m² place, equipped with four high end computers using the latest GPUs for AI acceleration. Additionally, TPUs can be rented for peak demand. The 75” mobile touch screens and an additional router allow smooth collaboration and presentations. 80m² whiteboards and a huge set of LEGO serious play stand by for analogue creative work.