Alexander Dockhorn
Associate Professor
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Dockhorn is an Associate Professor for Games Research with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, decision-making and AI for games, currently leading research at the University of Southern Denmark after roles as Juniorprofessor and postdoc across German and UK universities. He combines deep academic training (Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science) with hands-on game development and competition organization, having chaired IEEE CIS committees and run prominent AI game competitions such as the Hearthstone AI challenge. His work explores algorithms for general AI in game-based settings, informed by a longstanding fascination with human learning and cognitive capabilities. Comfortable moving between research, teaching, and community-building, he brings practical experience from industry internships and educational leadership to bridge academia and applied AI in games.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Term Abroad, Computer Science, Term Abroad, Computer Science at Abertay UniversityDr.-Ing., Informatik, Dr.-Ing., Informatik at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
German, English
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Github Skills (8)
hearthstone10
otto5
playing5
game-ai4
kotlin3
cross-platform1
game-engine1
android1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ADockhorn/CIG-Overview
May 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
gamesvoncomputational-intelligenceadditionalmagdeburg
ADockhorn/HearthstoneAICompetition
Dec 2017 - Jul 2021
2020 Hearthstone-AI Comeptition
Contributions:3 releases, 65 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 6 months
hearthstone
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