Keynotes

Hsien-Chin Lin

Bio: Hsien-Chin Lin is a Ph.D. student at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Milica Gašić. He has been supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. STG2018_804636), and is working within the 'Lamarr Fellow Network Ramp Up' project.

Hsien-Chin Lin's research interests include user simulation, dialogue systems, and natural language understanding. He is also interested in reinforcement learning, adversarial learning and other machine learning topics. His research has been published in SIGDIAL, SIGIR and EMNLP.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Justus Vasel

Bio: Johann Justus Vasel studied Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth and the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg with a focus on public international and European law. Subsequent to his studies, he worked at the Human Rights Center (Potsdam), received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, did his legal traineeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, completed his master's degree at New York University and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. In the past he held a position as Visiting Professor for Law & Economics at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and researched at the Institute for Law & Economics at Hamburg University. Johann Justus Vasel, is currently Professor for Public Law with a Focus on Legal Aspects of Artificial Intelligence at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, serves as a Board Member of the HeiCAD and is coordinator of the legal use case within the Manchot-Research Group.  His wide research interests span from legal philosophy and constitutional law to European and public international law with a special focus on AI.