Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu — Co-Founder

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu is an AI expert whose career is distinguished by leading positions in research and industry. She is University Professor of German University of Digital Science since April 1st 2025. Dr. Xu is Non-Executive Director of Airbus Group and is member of supervisory board of the Siemens Energy Group, FAZ and the ZF Group. Dr. Xu is also board memember of ChainIQ Group and Zühlke Group and Board Advsior of GCORE. Feiyu is also member of the advisory board of Global Neighbours. Dr. Xu was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at SAP from May 2020 to June 2023. Dr. Xu was leading the AI strategy of SAP and its holistic implementation. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Xu was Vice President of Lenovo Group, Head of the AI Lab, Lenovo Research. Dr. Xu has broad and in-depth experience of the total cycle of innovation in her expert areas, namely, from basic research, to application and development and finally to products and their commercialization. Prior to joining Lenovo, she was Principal Researcher of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), leading the research group of text analytics in the Language Technology Lab. In addition, she was co-founder and general manager of Yocoy Technologies GmbH, a DFKI spin-off company founded in 2007. In 2013, she won the Google Focused Research Award for her contribution in the field of natural language processing. In 2014, she was awarded the honor of DFKI Research Fellow, the highest honor for researchers at DFKI. Dr. Xu has published more than 100 research papers, many of which have been published in internationally renowned artificial intelligence conferences such as ACL, COLING, EMNLP, CONLL, NAACL and LREC. She was also the area chair of text mining, information extraction and Q&A, in EACL 2017, and also the area chair of text mining and Q&A, in ACL 2018. Feiyu Xu studied technical translation at Tongji University in Shanghai after having been nominated and selected with a waiver of the national admission exam in year 1987. She then studied computational linguistics at Saarland University from 1992 to 1998 and graduated by receiving a Diplom (MSc) with distinction. Her PhD-Thesis is about "bootstrapping relation extraction from semantic seed" in "information extraction". In 2014, Feiyu Xu has completed a habilitation in big text data analytics. In 2019, Dr. Xu was selected as Forbes 2019 China List of Top 50 Women in Tech. Handelsblatt selected Dr. Xu as one of most influential persons in 2023 in Germany

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