Sven Mayer is a full professor of computer science at the TU Dortmund University and the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security where he is the head of the chair for Human-AI Interaction. His research focuses on Human-AI Interaction at the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence, where he focuses on the next generation of computing systems. He uses artificial intelligence to design, build, and evaluate future human-centered interfaces. In particular, he envisions enabling humans to outperform their performance in collaboration with the machine. He focuses on areas such as augmented and virtual reality, mobile scenarios, and robotics.
Before his faculty appointment, he was an assistant professor from 2020 to 2025 at LMU Munich before a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) in the Future Interfaces Group, led by Chris Harrison. In March 2019, he received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) under the supervision of Niels Henze from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. As a Ph.D. student, he was part of the Cluster of Excellence for Simulation Technology (SimTech). In 2015, he spent 3 months at the University of Glasgow, UK, in the group of Roderick Murray-Smith. As a guest researcher for the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, he worked under the supervision of Lewis Chuang. Before his Ph.D., he received his Dipl.-Inf. (M.Sc. equivalent) at the University of Stuttgart.
