Jan Eric Lenssen is a senior researcher and group leader at MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Saarland University Associate Fellow. He obtained his PhD in 2022 from TU Dortmund University in the area of graph neural networks and geometric deep learning, before starting as a PostDoc at MPI and becoming group leader in 2023. During his PhD, he did internships at Meta Reality Labs and Nnaissense. He also is part of the founding team of
kumo.ai, a Stanford/TU Dortmund startup that brings graph neural networks to relational databases.
Website: https://geometric-rl.mpi-inf.mpg.de/