Welcome to the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods. We conduct broad foundational and application-driven research in artificial intelligence, in particular neurosymbolic AI, which we combine with the area of formal methods. We tackle problems that are inspired by autonomous systems, industrial projects, and in particular planning problems in robotics.

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AI Lecture Series – Thiago D. Simão

We were pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Thiago D. Simão from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) for a guest lecture on Safety and Reliability in Reinforcement Learning. Thiago D. Simão (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at TU/e. He received his Ph.D. from

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1st Storm Days and ROCKS Workshop 2025

In the week of 31.03.-04.04., the AI-FM team attended two workshops: the first edition of the Storm Days and the ROCKS Workshop 2025. Storm Days This event was aimed at users of the probabilistic model checker Storm, and the programme ranged from demonstrations of the newest features, research presentations of

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Thom Badings’ PhD Defense and Symposium

Our group had the pleasure of traveling to Nijmegen to celebrate a big milestone for Thom Badings—his PhD Defense at Radboud University Nijmegen, supervised by Nils Jansen and Marielle Stoelinga! On this occasion, Thom also organized an accompanying symposium. Advances in Robust Verification of Stochastic Systems It was an inspiring

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AI Lecture Series Kick-off

Yesterday marked an exciting start to our AI Lecture Series at RUB! This series aims to showcase cutting-edge topics in AI, foster dialogue, and build connections between RUB researchers and the wider academic community. Organized by Simon Heilig and Joshua Wendland, representing the labs of AI and Society (Prof. Bilal

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4th AI-FM Workshop

Another great AI-FM workshop comes to an end. We had several days of great talks, discussions, focused working groups, and a lot of fun! The topics covered in this workshop included: Uncertainty-Aware Perception (in RL), Missingness, Adversarial POMDPs, Causality-based Feature Reduction, Active Measure MDPs, and much more. These workshops have

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Artifical Intelligence and Formal Methods

Faculty of Computer Science
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstraße 140
D-44801 Bochum

Secretary’s Office

Verena Schramm
Building MC 4.147
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Mo: 9am-4pm
Tue: 9am-2pm
or by arrangement

phone: +49 234 32-15270
e-mail: aifm@rub.de