Vita

I am a professor for Machine Learning at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Prior to joining Leuphana, I was a joint professor for Knowledge Mining & Assessment at TU Darmstadt and the German Institute for Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt am Main. Before, I led the Recommender Systems group at Zalando SE and worked on machine learning at Universität Bonn, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Technische Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken, and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I received a Diploma in Computer Science in 2003 from Technische Universität Berlin and a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2008 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I am interested in statistical machine learning and data mining. ML3 homepage

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 11th International Workshop, MLSA 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 9, 2024, Revised Selected Papers
    Ulf Brefeld (Editor) , Jesse Davis (Editor) , Jan Van Haaren (Editor) , Albrecht Zimmermann (Editor) , 2025 Cham , 119 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  2. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part I
    Ulf Brefeld (Editor) , Elisa Fromont (Editor) , Andreas Hotho (Editor) , Arno Knobbe (Editor) , Marloes Maathuis (Editor) , Céline Robardet (Editor) , 2020 Cham , 766 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  3. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part II
    Ulf Brefeld (Editor) , Elisa Fromont (Editor) , Andreas Hotho (Editor) , Arno Knobbe (Editor) , Marloes Maathuis (Editor) , Céline Robardet (Editor) , 2020 Cham , 732 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  4. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part III
    Ulf Brefeld (Editor) , Elisa Fromont (Editor) , Andreas Hotho (Editor) , Arno Knobbe (Editor) , Marloes Maathuis (Editor) , Céline Robardet (Editor) , 2020 Cham , 804 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  5. Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 7th International Workshop, MLSA 2020, Co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings
    Ulf Brefeld (Editor) , Jesse Davis (Editor) , Jan van Haaren (Editor) , Albrecht Zimmermann (Editor) , 2020 Cham , 146 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

Journal contributions

  1. The promise and challenges of computer mouse trajectories in DMHIs – A feasibility study on pre-treatment dropout predictions
    Jennifer Matthiesen (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , Burkhardt Funk (Author) , Kirsten Zantvoort (Author) , Pontus Bjurner (Author) , Marie Bendix (Author) , Viktor Kaldo (Author) , 01.06.2025 , in: Internet Interventions, 40 , 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Masked autoencoder for multiagent trajectories
    Yannick Rudolph (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , 01.02.2025 , in: Machine Learning, 114, 2 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Interactive sequential generative models for team sports
    Dennis Faßmeyer (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , Moritz Cordes (Author) , 01.02.2025 , in: Machine Learning, 114, 2 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Toward Learning Distributions of Distributions
    Moritz Hauke Wohlstein (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 265 , p. 269-275 , 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  5. Contextual movement models based on normalizing flows
    Samuel Gomes Fadel (Author) , Sebastian Mair (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , Ricardo da Silva Torres (Author) , 01.03.2023 , in: AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 107, 1-2 , p. 51-72 , 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Masked Autoencoder Pretraining for Event Classification in Elite Soccer
    Yannick Rudolph (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , 26.02.2024 Cham , p. 24-35 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Hands in Focus: Sign Language Recognition Via Top-Down Attention
    Ulf Brefeld (Author) , Noha Sarhan (Author) , Christian Wilms (Author) , Vanessa Closius (Author) , Simone Frintrop (Author) , 08.10.2023 Piscataway , p. 2555-2559 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  3. Exploring the Poincaré Ellipsis
    Samuel Gomes Fadel (Author) , Tino Paulsen (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , 01.09.2023

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  4. User Authentication via Multifaceted Mouse Movements and Outlier Exposure
    Jennifer Matthiesen (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , Hanne Hastedt (Author) , 01.04.2023 Cham , p. 300-313 , 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  5. Convolutional Neural Networks
    Yannick Rudolph (Author) , Ulf Brefeld (Author) , 01.01.2023 Berlin , p. 207-215 , 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologiesChapterResearch

Press / Media

  1. Data Science: Lern- und Ausbildungsinhalte
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

Teaching