Vita

Following my Bachelor's in Engineering and Management (B. Eng.) at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, I completed an M.Sc. in Data Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Alongside my studies, I gained industry experience through internships and working student positions at Mercedes-Benz, Ulixes Robotersysteme, and Markt-Pilot.

During both my undergraduate and graduate education, I enjoyed sharing knowledge by conducting tutorials in Mathematics and Machine Learning. I was also actively involved as a student representative and member of various study commissions during my Bachelor's and Master's studies. To broaden my cultural and technical horizons, I spent three semesters abroad at Tampere University (Finland) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy).

Currently, as a research associate in Leuphana's AIX group, I am pursuing my PhD under the supervision of Ricardo Usbeck. In this role, I continue my passion for teaching across several subjects, contribute to the development of the research group, and conduct research in topics related to GeoAI.

Teaching

  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and Data Visualization
  • AI project
  • Advanced Machine Learning - LLMs, RAG, KGs
  • DataX

Research Interests

  • Spatial Representation Learning
  • (Qualitative) Spatial Reasoning
  • Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs)
  • Geospatial Foundation Models (GeoFMs)
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • AI to enhance (natural) disaster resilience
  • AI for Good

Publications

Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. GANDR - Georelating Dataset, Metrics, and Evaluation
    Kai Moltzen (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 19.12.2025 New York, NY, USA , p. 61-71 , 11 p.

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

  2. LLM Agents for Georelating - A New Task for Locating Events
    Kai Moltzen (Author) , Junbo Huang (Author) , Ricardo Usbeck (Author) , 12.12.2025 New York, NY, USA , p. 277–280 , 4 p.

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

Activities

  1. Posterpresentation LLM-Agents for Georelating
    Kai Moltzen (Speaker)

    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.)Research

  2. Presentation Leuphana @ Session II Future Knowledge Experts
    Kai Moltzen (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

Prizes

  1. 2025 Research Award of the School of Management & Technology
    Kai Moltzen (Recipient) Ricardo Usbeck (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointmentsResearch

  2. Award for Completing the Course of Study with Outstanding Success
    Kai Moltzen (Recipient) ,

    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointmentsEducation

Courses