Prof. Dr. Michael Beetz is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bremen and the head of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI). Until 2011, he was the deputy coordinator of the German Excellence Cluster CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) as well as the research area "Knowledge and Learning." He coordinated the European FP7 integration project "RoboHow" and has been the spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center "Everyday Activity Science and Engineering (EASE)," established by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2017. Additionally, he is the co-coordinator of the research focus "Minds, Media, Machines" at the University of Bremen and the Bremen AI strategy.

Prof. Beetz received his diploma in computer science with distinction from the University of Kaiserslautern. He was awarded his MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees in 1993, 1994, and 1996 from Yale University, and in 2000, he received the Venia Legendi from the University of Bonn. In February 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Örebro University.

His research focuses on the plan-based control of robots, knowledge processing and representation for robots, integrated robotic learning, and cognition-based perception. He supports fortiss in the areas of platform engineering, knowledge representation, and accountability design.