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Andreas Holzinger

Andreas Holzinger

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Computer Science
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
80
Citations
25094
World Ranking
1086
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2021 - Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
  • 2020 - Member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Andreas Holzinger is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has a research focus primarily in the field of Computer Science, with significant work also in Medicine. Their subfields of study include Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Molecular Biology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work cover areas such as Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Machine Learning in Healthcare, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Machine Learning and Data Classification.

Holzinger has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • New Biotechnology
  • Information Fusion
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Electronics

Recent papers include:

  • "AI for life: Trends in artificial intelligence for biotechnology," 2023, New Biotechnology
  • "Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics," 2021, Electronics
  • "Towards multi-modal causability with Graph Neural Networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI," 2021, Information Fusion
  • "Measuring the Quality of Explanations: The System Causability Scale (SCS)," 2020, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
  • "Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions," 2024, Information Fusion

Collaborators frequently working with Holzinger include Heimo Müller, Anna Saranti, Bastian Pfeifer, Karl Stampfer, and Christoph Gollob.

Holzinger also has multiple book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, including various editions of "Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction" (2020, 2021, 2022) and "Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications" (2021, 2022).

Awards and recognitions include being named a Fellow of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in 2021, membership in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) since 2020, and membership in Academia Europaea since 2019.

Best Publications

  • Causability and explainability of artificial intelligence in medicine.

    Andreas Holzinger;Georg Langs;Helmut Denk;Kurt Zatloukal

  • Usability engineering methods for software developers

    Andreas Holzinger

  • Successful implementation of user-centered game based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering

    Martin Ebner;Andreas Holzinger

  • Interactive machine learning for health informatics: when do we need the human-in-the-loop?

    Andreas Holzinger

  • What do we need to build explainable AI systems for the medical domain

    Andreas Holzinger;Chris Biemann;Constantinos S. Pattichis;Douglas B. Kell

  • Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics

    Jianlong Zhou;Amir H. Gandomi;Fang Chen;Andreas Holzinger

  • Ambient intelligence in assisted living: enable elderly people to handle future interfaces

    Thomas Kleinberger;Martin Becker;Eric Ras;Andreas Holzinger

  • Legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks for development of standards in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous robotic surgery.

    Shane O'Sullivan;Nathalie Nevejans;Colin Allen;Andrew Blyth

  • Student-Centered Teaching Meets New Media: Concept and Case Study

    Renate Motschnig-Pitrik;Andreas Holzinger

  • Measuring the Quality of Explanations: The System Causability Scale (SCS): Comparing Human and Machine Explanations.

    Andreas Holzinger;André M. Carrington;Heimo Müller

  • Towards multi-modal causability with Graph Neural Networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI

    Andreas Holzinger;Bernd Malle;Anna Saranti;Bastian Pfeifer

  • Explainable AI: The new 42?

    Randy Goebel;Ajay Chander;Katharina Holzinger;Freddy Lecue

  • On some aspects of improving mobile applications for the elderly

    Andreas Holzinger;Gig Searle;Alexander Nischelwitzer

  • Knowledge Discovery and interactive Data Mining in Bioinformatics - State-of-the-Art, future challenges and research directions

    Andreas Holzinger;Andreas Holzinger;Matthias Dehmer;Igor Jurisica;Igor Jurisica

  • From Machine Learning to Explainable AI

    Andreas Holzinger

  • Recommender systems in the healthcare domain: state-of-the-art and research issues

    Thi Ngoc Trang Tran;Alexander Felfernig;Christoph Trattner;Andreas Holzinger

  • Learning performance with interactive simulations in medical education: Lessons learned from results of learning complex physiological models with the HAEMOdynamics SIMulator

    Andreas Holzinger;Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust;Sigi Wassertheurer;Michael Hessinger

  • Augmentor: An Image Augmentation Library for Machine Learning

    Marcus D. Bloice;Christof Stocker;Andreas Holzinger

  • Biomedical image augmentation using Augmentor.

    Marcus Daniel Bloice;Peter M. Roth;Andreas Holzinger;Andreas Holzinger

  • Mobile phones as a challenge for m-learning: examples for mobile interactive learning objects (MILOs)

    A. Holzinger;A. Nischelwitzer;M. Meisenberger

  • Data Mining with Decision Trees: Theory and Applications

    Andreas Holzinger

  • Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load.

    Andreas Holzinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Martina Ziefle
Martina Ziefle RWTH Aachen University
Ulf Karsten
Ulf Karsten University of Rostock
Cornelius Lütz
Cornelius Lütz University of Innsbruck
Edgar R. Weippl
Edgar R. Weippl University of Vienna
Igor Jurisica
Igor Jurisica University Health Network
Bernhard Kräutler
Bernhard Kräutler University of Innsbruck
Matthias Dehmer
Matthias Dehmer University of Miami
Vasile Palade
Vasile Palade Coventry University
Ilse Kranner
Ilse Kranner University of Innsbruck
Tobias Schreck
Tobias Schreck Graz University of Technology

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