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Prof. Dr. Marvin Wright – Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science

Since February, Marvin Wright has held the position of Professor of Machine Learning in Statistics. The appointment took place within the frame of a cooperative professorship together with the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS.

Marvin Wright studied computer science and engineering sciences at Hamburg University of Technology and mathematics in medicine and life sciences at Universität zu Lübeck. After working in the automobile industry, Wright returned to Lübeck in 2014 and completed his PhD on machine learning processes for high dimensional data with survival endpoints at Universität zu Lübeck in 2017. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at BIPS and a had a five-month guest stay at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2020, Wright has led an Emmy Noether junior research group on interpretable machine learning with application in epidemiology at BIPS.

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