Sabina Jeschke (born 27 July 1968 in

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, Sweden) is a German university professor for information sciences in mechanical engineering at the

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

. As of 10 November 2017, she was named member of the management board of Deutschen Bahn AG for digitalization and technology. She is also the director of the Cybernetics Lab IMA/ZLW & IfU. In the summer semester of 2017, she is on sabbatical leave to develop her research in the area of artificial consciousness (artificial / machine consciousness), and is involved in building a think tank "Strong Artificial Intelligence" at the Volvo Car Corporation in Göteborg. Since May 2015, Jeschke has been a member of the supervisory board of Körber AG, since April 2012 chairman of the board of VDI Aachen. Beginning of January 2023 she took on an additional position as a senior advisor at

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Life and work

Jeschke studied physics and computer sciences at the

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, Germany. She completed her student research project during a research stay at the NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California, USA under the direction of William (Bill) Borucki. During her doctoral studies she worked as a

scientific researcher The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific me ...

at the Institut für Mathematik at the

and as an

assistant professor Assistant Professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States and Canada. Overview This position is generally taken after earning a doctoral degree and gene ...

/instructor at the

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in Atlanta, US. In 2004 she obtained her

doctorate degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' ...

(Dr. rer. nat.) with

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. After two years, Sabina Jeschke became a

junior professor Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia. The academic ran ...

for New Media in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the

. As from 2007 she held a full professorship at the Institute for IT Service Technologies (IITS) and simultaneously became the director of the Central Information Technology Services (IT-Center) (RUS) at the

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, Germany. Additionally she was a visiting professor and head of the former Center for Multimedia in Teaching and Research (MuLF) now innoCampus at the

. In 2009 she followed the call of the

and became a professor and the director of the Institute Cluster IMA/ZLW & IfU at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Until 2010 she additionally functioned as a visiting professor with scientific direction of research projects at the Institut für Technische Optik (ITO) of the

, Germany. From October 2011 to September 2016, she was vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the

. Some of the main areas of her research are

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist human ...

and

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

technology (heterogeneous and cooperative robotics, web services in robotics), traffic and mobility (autonomous and semi-autonomous transport systems, international logistics, car2car & car2X models),

Internet of Things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

and

cyber-physical system A cyber-physical system (CPS) or intelligent system is a computer system in which a mechanism is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms. In cyber-physical systems, physical and software components are deeply intertwined, able to ope ...

s (industry 4.0, semantic web services),

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

(data integration and data mining, multi-agency systems, cognitive computing), human-machine interaction (virtual and remote laboratories, intelligent training environments), innovation research (innovation fields, trend monitoring) and information management (integration technologies for information services, innovative learning and teaching concepts). She is a member and expert in numerous committees and commissions, inter alia Senior Member of the

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(IEEE) since 2011 and a member of the Program Committee "Robotics and Automation" of the

German Aerospace Center The German Aerospace Center (german: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., abbreviated DLR, literally ''German Center for Air- and Space-flight'') is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany ...

(DLR) since 2017. In July 2014, she was honored by th
German Society of Computer Science
(GI) with the recognition of Germany's digital minds. For her contributions to a modern engineering education, she was awarded the Golden Nikola Tesla Chain of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) in September 2015. Together with th
Carologistics
team of RWTH Aachen University and the University of Applied Sciences of Aachen she won the World Championship title in th
RoboCup Logistics League
2014, 2015 and 2016 for three years in a row. Jeschke heads the IMA/ZLW & IfU Cybernetics Lab (as of November 2017). She has served as member of the supervisory board of Körber AG since May 2015 and member of the executive board of VDI – The Association of German Engineers since April 2012. Jeschke took a sabbatical during the 2017 summer semester to focus on her research in artificial/machine consciousness and was involved establishing the Strong Artificial Intelligence think tank at Volvo in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Jeschke is considered an excellent public speaker and is fluent in German, English and Swedish.

Deutsche Bahn

Jeschke was appointed to the management board of

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the ...

on November 10, 2017, effective mid-November of that year. On the board, she is responsible for digitalization and technology. Her contract, which was initially for three years, was extended by the Supervisory Board on December 11, 2019, for five years until the end of 2025. As of the beginning of 2020, she will also be responsible for heavy vehicle maintenance.

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References

External links

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Profile of Sabina Jeschke Deutsche Bahn AG

Profile of Sabina Jeschke on the RWTH Aachen University website

User-Profile of Sabina Jeschke on LinkedIn

Board of management of the VDI Aachen on the website of the VDI
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