AININ is part of a Bavarian network of various AI activities carried out in Amberg-Weiden, Augsburg, Bayreuth, Erlangen, Ingolstadt, Munich and Würzburg. The aim of this close cooperation is to combine newly established research capabilities with existing institutions and competencies and to link AI research at universities and non-university research institutions into a successful competence network on a long-term and sustainable basis.

AININ is a non-profit organization for the coordination, promotion and execution of applied research and basic research in the field of information technology with a focus on the topics of artificial intelligence and machine learning, including the free transfer of knowledge to interested companies, research institutions and individuals.

Organizational units:

• the shareholders‘ meeting,

• the Subvisory Board,

• management and

• scientific advisory board.

The scientific directors of AININ at THI are Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Botsch, Prof. Dr. Alexis Fritz and Prof. Dr. Christian Stummeyer. The administrative manager of AININ is Dr. Christian Lösel.

• Prof. Dr. Walter Schober (President of the TH Ingolstadt)

• Dr. Reinhard Brandl (Member of the German Federal Parliaments)

• Christian Müller (Chancellor of the TH Ingolstadt)

• Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Hof (Vice-President of the TH Ingolstadt)

• Dr. Andreas Tiete (Managing Director Clinic Ingolstadt GmbH)

• Thomas Kleemann (Head of Information Technology department at Clinic Ingolstadt GmbH)

• Christian Stephan (Head of Innovation Research in Digital Strategy & Transformation at MediaMarktSaturn N3XT GmbH)

• Dr. Siegfried Schmidtner (Head of Product Engineering at AUDI AG)

• Dr. Christian Scharpf (Mayor of the City of Ingolstadt)

• Prof. Dr. Jens Hogreve (Vice President for research and junior researchers at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

• Prof. Dr. Georg Rosenfeld (Executive Board Economic Development and Digitalisation at IFG Ingolstadt AöR)