Curriculum Vitae
Alex Bäuerle
Researcher
My research is at the intersection of AI and HCI. I am prototyping and trying to understand novel modes of interaction with AI, focusing on interfaces that help humans be creative with AI systems.
Education
Ph. D. in Computer Science at Ulm University
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022Supervised by Timo Ropinski, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Scholarship
M. Sc. in Media Informatics at Ulm University
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017Grade: 1.1, supervised by Timo Ropinski
Positions
Research Scientist
What is the right interface between humans and AI?
Founding Member of Technical Staff
Building an awesome product for Humans + AI + Biology to solve drug toxicity.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
Research and development of tools in the areas of AI evaluation and prompt engineering.
Research Scientist, Sigma Computing
Bringing data and analysts closer together with the help of visualization and AI.
Research Intern, Apple Machine Intelligence
Designed and developed a framework for component-based ML interfaces which can be composed in different environments such as computational notebooks and web dashboards.
Research Intern, Google TensorBoard
Designed and implemented a visualization approach for a novel bias detection algorithm. This visualization is designed to support large label spaces and multilabel classification problems.
Research Intern, Google PAIR
Invented and experimented with a technique similar to Feature Visualization, but for language models.
Publications
Cell Painting for cytotoxicity and mode-of-action analysis in primary human hepatocytes
Jessica D Ewald, Katherine L Titterton, Alex Bäuerle, Alex Beatson, Daniil A Boiko, Ángel A Cabrera, Jaime Cheah, Beth A Cimini, Bram L Gorissen, Joshua Harrill, Thouis R Jones, Konrad J Karczewski, Christine E Crute, David Rouquie, Srijit Seal, Erin Weisbart, Brandon White, Anne E Carpenter, and Shantanu Singh
Your other Left! Vision-Language Models Fail to Identify Relative Positions in Medical Images
Daniel Wolf, Heiko Hillenhagen, Billurvan Taskin, Alex Bäuerle, Meinrad Beer, Michael Götz, and Timo Ropinski
A Survey on Quality Metrics for Text-to-Image Generation
Sebastian Hartwig, Dominik Engel, Leon Sick, Hannah Kniesel, Tristan Payer, Poonam Poonam, Michael Glöckner, Alex Bäuerle, and Timo Ropinski
Humboldt: Metadata-Driven Extensible Data Discovery
Alex Bäuerle, Çağatay Demiralp, and Michael Stonebraker
mint: Integrating scientific visualizations into virtual reality
Sergej Geringer, Florian Geiselhart, Alex Bäuerle, Dominik Dec, Olivia Odenthal, Guido Reina, Timo Ropinski, and Daniel Weiskopf
An In-depth Look at Gemini’s Language Abilities
Syeda Nahida Akter, Zichun Yu, Aashiq Muhamed, Tianyue Ou, Alex Bäuerle, Ángel Alexander Cabrera, Krish Dholakia, Chenyan Xiong, and Graham Neubig
VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations
Junran Yang, Alex Bäuerle, Dominik Moritz, and Çağatay Demiralp
Semantic Hierarchical Exploration of Large Image Datasets
Alex Bäuerle, Christian van Onzenoodt, Daniel Jönsson, and Timo Ropinski
Neural Activation Patterns (NAPs): Visual Explainability of Learned Concepts
Alex Bäuerle, Daniel Jönsson, and Timo Ropinski
Symphony: Composing Interactive Interfaces for Machine Learning
Alex Bäuerle, Ángel Alexander Cabrera, Fred Hohman, Megan Maher, David Koski, Xavier Suau, Titus Barik, and Dominik Moritz
Where did my Lines go? Visualizing Missing Data in Parallel Coordinates
Alex Bäuerle, Christian van Onzenoodt, Simon der Kinderen, Jimmy Johansson Westberg, Daniel Jönsson, and Timo Ropinski
exploRNN: Understanding Recurrent Neural Networks through Visual Exploration
Alex Bäuerle, Patrick Albus, Raphael Störk, Tina Seufert, and Timo Ropinski
Visual Identification of Problematic Bias in Large Label Spaces
Alex Bäuerle, Aybuke Gul Turker, Ken Burke, Osman Aka, Timo Ropinski, Christina Greer, and Mani Varadarajan
Net2Vis - A Visual Grammar for Automatically Generating Publication-Tailored CNN Architecture Visualizations
Alex Bäuerle, Christian van Onzenoodt, and Timo Ropinski
Measuring Model Biases in the Absence of Ground Truth
Osman Aka, Ken Burke, Alex Bäuerle, Christina Greer, and Margaret Mitchell
Classifier-Guided Visual Correction of Noisy Labels for Image Classification Tasks
Alex Bäuerle, Heiko Neumann, and Timo Ropinski
Automatic identification of crossovers in cryo‐EM images of murine amyloid protein A fibrils with machine learning
Mattthias Weber, Alex Bäuerle, Matthias Schmidt, Matthias Neumann, Marcus Fähndrich, Timo Ropinski, and Volker Schmidt
Talks
Where did my Lines go? Visualizing Missing Data in Parallel Coordinates
Jun 15, 2022Symphony: Composing Interactive Interfaces for Machine Learning
May 4, 2022Net2Vis - A Visual Grammar for Automatically Generating Publication-Tailored CNN Architecture Visualizations
Oct 28, 2021Visualization for AI in Critical Domains
Oct 26, 2020Classifier-Guided Visual Correction of Noisy Labels for Image Classification Tasks
May 27, 2020Automatic Fibril-Crossover Detection in EM-Images using Deep Convolutional Networks
Apr 12, 2018Teaching
Lecture: Deep Learning for Graphics and Visualization
2019 - 2022Created and regularly held one chapter on visualization for AI at Ulm University. Talk about different explainability techniques and visualization concepts that help investigate and communicate about AI systems.
Projects: Visualization and Explainability for AI
2017 - 2022Supervise undergrad and grad students in regular projects. We go through the process of ideation, implementation, and writing about these projects.
Seminars: Visualization and Explainability for AI
2017 - 2022Held regular seminars for both undergrad and grad students.
Mentoring
Junran Yang
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022Research Intern, Sigma Computing
VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations
Lena Wiedmann
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022Bachelor Thesis, Ulm University
Creating an Interactive UI for Human/AI Collaboration in Poster Design Processes
Simon der Kinderen
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021Master Thesis, Ulm University
Visualizing Missing Data in Parallel Coordinates
Shasa Fringston
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021Bachelor Thesis, Ulm University
Generating Synthesizer Presets from Audio with a Neural Network
Marios Sirtmatsis
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021Bachelor Thesis, Ulm University
Visualizing Deep Reinforcement Learning
Raphael Störk
May 2019 - Feb 2020Bachelor Thesis, Ulm University
leaRNN: Eine Interaktive Visualisieurng rekurrenter neuronaler Netze
Christoph Baldauf
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019Master Thesis, Ulm University
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) Applied to Respiratory Motion Detection in Fluoroscopic Frames
Funding
Ph. D. Scholarship: Visualization Techniques to Support Training and Analysis of Neural Networks
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021Carl-Zeiss Scholarship for PhD Students
Undergraduate Scholarship
Oct 2012 - Sep 2015German Stipend for Excellent Students