Johannes Langer

Teaching Assistant

M.Sc.

Office: WE5/05.046
Office hours: by appointment

Phone:+49-951-863 2863
Email:  johannes.langer(at)uni-bamberg.de

since 01/2024Research and Teaching Assistant in the Cognitive Systems Group at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
04/2022 - 10/2024Computing in the Humanities at the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
10/2018 - 10/2022Psychology at the Faculty of Human Sciences and Education, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany (Bachelor of Science)
  • Machine Teaching
  • Abstract Reasoning
  • Neuro-Symbolic/Hybrid AI
  • Representation Learning
  • Hocquette, C., Langer, J., Cropper, A., & Schmid, U. (2026). Can humans teach machines to code? Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI’26/IAAI’26/EAAI’26, 40, 17472–17480. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i21.38801
  • Saribatur, Z. G., Langer, J., Thaler, A. M., & Schmid, U. (2026). Towards Observing the Effect of Abstraction on Understandability of Explanations in Answer Set Programming. In T. Braun, B. Paaßen, & F. Stolzenburg (Eds), KI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 236–243). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02813-6_18
  • Langer, J., & Schmid, U. (2025). Flexible Segmentation for Rule Learning over Object Representations in Abstract Visual Reasoning. Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems. https://openreview.net/forum?id=PSsAsrCkFx

  • Elected representative for the faculty non-professorial scientific staff (election period 2025-2027)
  • University of Bamberg Research Network Executive Board Member

Workshops

  • Einführung in die Künstliche Intelligenz. Vierstündiger Workshop für den Kurs “Förderung guter Schüler” des Melanchthon Gymnasium Nürnberg (19.12.2024)
  • Wie Funktioniert Eigentlich Eine Spielekonsole? Workshop für die Nachwuchsförderung der Universität Bamberg im Rahmen von MUT und des BIT.

Participation in Seminars

  • Invited participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (2025)
  • Participation in the EuADS-Summer School 2025 on Automated Data Science
  • Invited participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (2023)