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S2 #17 | Wie Reinforcement Learning Unternehmen verändert | Universität Salzburg

Künstliche Intelligenz ist längst im Unternehmensalltag angekommen – doch was kommt nach Chatbots? In dieser Folge von EASY cheesy DIGITAL sprechen wir über einen der spannendsten KI-Ansätze der Zukunft: Reinforcement Learning.

Im Gespräch mit Moderator Rudolf Grimm erklärt Dr. Simon Hirländer, wie Algorithmen lernen unter Unsicherheit gute Entscheidungen zu treffen und welches enorme Potenzial darin für Unternehmen liegt. Wir diskutieren konkrete Anwendungsfälle, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschung und Wirtschaft, und ob Europa die KI-Entwicklung verschlafen hat.

Dieses Projekt ist eine Initiative des DIH West, finanziert durch das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft und das Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie im Rahmen des FFG Programms „Digital Innovation Hubs in Österreich“. Foto: Benedikt Schemmer.

IPAC 2026 Contributions

Presenting multiple works at IPAC 2026:

• RL Beyond Greedy Optimisation (Poster) - Benchmarking RL for delayed-consequence regimes in AWAKE.
• Robust Real-Time Optimization of SIS18 Injection (Poster) - GP-MPC for robust injection.
• Causal GP-MPC (Poster) - Embedding structure, safety, and online learning.
• Koopman-Stabilised World Models (Poster) - Offline RL using Koopman theory.

RL4AA 2025 Contributions

Contributions to the Workshop on RL for Autonomous Accelerators:

• [Talk] Reliable Control via Contextual MPC (S. Hirlaender, S. Trausner)
• [Poster] Robust Real-Time Optimization of SIS18 (S. Appel et al.)
• [Poster] Causal GP-MPC (O. Mironova et al.)
• [Poster] Curriculum-Guided PPO (F. Matanza et al.)

Keynote at zenonIZE 2025

Delivered keynote with Lucas Punzenberger (COPA-DATA) on "Future of AI-driven automation and the path to more intelligent self-learning systems in industry" at zenonIZE 2025 in Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation.

INSPIRE Project - AI in Education

Partner in the INSPIRE project (Intelligent Novel Support for Personalized Instruction and Robust Evaluation in STEM Lessons at Primary School), funded by the State of Salzburg's "AI Research Salzburg 2025" initiative, led by Christina Egger (PH Salzburg).

2nd RL Bootcamp

Co-organizing the 2nd Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp at PLUS University Salzburg. The bootcamp features hands-on workshops on Advanced Policy Gradients, Actor-Critics, and Continuous Control.

Keynote at iDSC'25

Delivered keynote "From Theory to Practice: Reinforcement Learning as the 21st-Century ML Paradigm" at the 6th Interdisciplinary Data Science Conference.

RL4AA Workshop Hamburg

Co-organized the RL for Autonomous Accelerators workshop in Hamburg, bringing together researchers from CERN, DESY, KIT, and SLAC.

1st RL Bootcamp

Successfully organized the first Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp at PLUS University with participants from academia and industry.

TEDx Talk

Delivered TEDx talk on "AI is what we make it" at TEDxSalzburg, discussing the future of artificial intelligence and its societal impact.

RL4AA Workshop Salzburg

Hosted the RL for Autonomous Accelerators workshop in Salzburg, establishing a key platform for international collaboration.