Introduction of IMI

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Change in Leadership at IMI

Prof. Jivka Ovtcharova KIT/IMI
Prof. Jivka Ovtcharova
Prof. Anne Meyer KIT
Prof. Anne Meyer

The anniversary event and the book "20 Years IMI" in October 2023 impressively demonstrated that Professor Jivka Ovtcharova has significantly shaped the history of IMI as the institute's director since the early 2000s. With her research and teaching in the fields of Virtual Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management, followed by Digital Twins, Smart Immersive Environments, and Artificial Intelligence, she has made measurable contributions beyond the research community and into the business world. The Lifecycle Engineering Solutions Center (LESC), the Industrie 4.0 Collaboration Lab (I4.0 Lab), and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Talents (CAIT), founded and led by her, have set new standards for a modern, practice-oriented engineering education.

With the turn of the year, the transition of institute leadership to Professor Anne Meyer has taken place. Since September 2023, she has held the chair of "Data Science in Mechanical Engineering" at IMI. Previously, she spent five years as a junior professor and later as a professor of "Digitization in Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management" at TU Dortmund. For her, data science means providing methods that enable good decisions to be made based on data, either by humans or by machines. The selection and appropriate combination of data science methods, depending on the task, objective, and available data, are the central focus of her research here at the institute.

Professor Jivka Ovtcharova, now relieved of her duties as a professor, assumes the project leadership of the flagship project RegioMORE and continues to provide advisory support to the institute with her experience and extensive network in research and business.

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